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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.

Downloads & Exercise files

Transcript

So first thing is, just open up Dreamweaver. Often at the beginning there it asks you a few questions like what color you want the background, and whether you want to be a Designer or a Developer. So what you want to do is pick 'Developer' for this case. If you didn't pick the right option, just keep going through and then you can change it up again in here, at the top right, and just pick 'Developer', and it should look something like mine.

Next thing we need to do is define a site. So go to 'Site', and go to 'New Site'. We need to do this for every new website. So if you've just got one, you'll only have to do this once, but if you're like me, and building lots of websites, you'll have to define the site for every new one. So give it a name, I'm calling mine 'Roar Cycles', that's the company we're working for. And we need to decide, where on our hard drive we're going to keep this website, because all of our images, and all of our HTML, all the stuff we make for this website need to be kept in the same folder. So, what we're going to do is go to 'Local Site Folder', click this little 'Browse' button and you could make your own one, but because I've got some exercise files already, you might download them. So the ones you've downloaded from the link in the description, go to 'Responsive Exercise Files' and just choose this folder here, no need to go in any deeper.

The other thing you should do before we move on is go to 'Advanced Settings', and up here where it says 'Default Images Folder', go to that. Just pick the 'Images' folder there I have created for you. If you're making your site by yourself you'd make your own folder with your own Images folder. We're just saving time to jump to the responsive stuff in this course. Let's click 'Choose', and hit 'Save'.

So what I've done is, just to speed things up, is I've started the website, just to get us going so we can jump into the responsive parts. So let's go to 'index1.html'. And this is what our page looks like in Code. So we want to see what it looks like in a browser. Down the bottom right here, it's way down the bottom here, there's one called Real Time Browser Preview, it's this kind of far right icon. Click on that, and then click 'Google Chrome'. If you don't have Chrome installed, it's best to go and install that now. It's the most common web browser and it's the one you should be doing most of your testing in. You can use Safari or any of the others, but Chrome is our man.

So this is what I've done for you so far. It's just previewing locally in my browser. I've added a logo, this navigation, and this big pink box. Just to get the structure right so we can start looking at what makes it responsive, because at the moment, if I grab the edge here, it's not responsive at all. Just kind of like sits there. So let's jump back into Dreamweaver, and add our first bit of HTML.

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