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9 lessons / 1 hours

Overview

Hi, I'm Dan and in this short-course we'll quickly go through all the basics to creating a simple responsive website using Dreamweaver CC 2018. We'll look at responsive web design techniques, as well as making sure you understand exactly what you're doing. We'll make the most of the most up to date web techniques, using HTML5 and CSS3 to present the best site possible. We'll use Media queries to manipulate the sites styling at different widths to give our site responsiveness. 

I built this course for the super-newbies. I've even got fail-safe exercise files so you can never fall behind. This would be the perfect starting point for anyone that wants to dip their toes into building responsive websites. We'll make 3 different responsive points, desktop, tablet and mobile. 

We'll start with defining the site in Dreamweaver. I'll give you a basic starting point of the site to get the ball rolling, then we'll preview our site and improve the responsiveness.

What are the requirements?

  • You'll need a copy of Dreamweaver CC 2017 or above. A free trial can be download from Adobe here.

  • No previous Dreamweaver or web design experience is necessary.

  • If you're not sure if this course is right for you. Email me what you’re trying to do and check if you’re on the right track.

What am I going to get from this course?

  • Forum support from me. 

  • All the techniques used by professional website designers.

  • Basic understanding of responsive web design.

What is the target audience?

  • YES: This course is for beginners. Aimed at people new to the world of web design. No previous Dreamweaver experience is necessary. People with knowledge of previous versions of Dreamweaver and below will also get great value from this course as the software has changed so much.

  • NO: This course is NOT suited to people experienced in using HTML & CSS. If you prefer to work in code only then this course isn’t right for you.

Course duration 40 mins

Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Transcript

So we're going to put in the Heading. Where are we going to put it? Now, we've got our Header here that contains my Logo and my Navigation. See those three little buttons there? Then we got this other chunk, which is Main. Main is kind of middle part of the website, Header is generally just our Logo and Navigation. So Main here, already has my Hero Box, and that is the big pink box that I've created already. It's this guy here. So, inside of there is where I want my Heading.

We're going to be designing this Heading here, which says "roarX, Pre-order now." So to put in a Heading, we need to put in something called H1. H1 is our Heading1, and the Heading1 is the most important heading on our page. So the syntax works like this, just like, say this Main here, it says 'main', and it's inside these angle brackets '< >'. Then there's a </main> to close that off. So we need to do the same thing for our H1. So angle brackets '< >', down by your M key. Type in 'H1', then close it off. So that's the beginning part, just like Main here. You can see, the second part, it's the same word but it has a forward slash '/' in front of it. So, we're going to type in angle brackets, forward slash '</' and helpful old Dreamweaver has gone and filled that in for us. That's one of the perks of Dreamweaver.

The text goes inside. Goes in the middle of these two here, so have your cursor flashing between the two tags. And we're going to type in 'roarX' which is the name of our new bike that we're launching. And we're going to say 'Pre-order', please. Or "pre-order now'. Hit 'Save', so 'File', 'Save'. And I want you to go and check your real time browser preview. Now you can check back by flipping back to Chrome it updates automatically or if you'd like to, you can click down here and click on 'Google Chrome' again. Either way, let's get to our browser. You can see here, there's my H1. 'roarX, Pre-order now'. And by default it is black and bold, and a particular size.

And that my friends is our first bit of HTML. If you're new to Web Design, well done, this is our first bit of Coding, you've done it. Next thing we need to do though is go and change these default colors, and sizes, and fonts to something that matches our mock-up in Photoshop. So let's go and do that now, learning something called CSS.

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