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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 first up let's talk about the process, so first up you'll need to design your website first in something like Photoshop or Illustrator. So you can see here, I've designed what my website looks like on a Desktop, what it looks like on a Tablet, and what it looks like on a Mobile. And you can see, they are very similar, but each design kind of takes best use of the device sizes. So, it's just some font size changes, it's some reordering of a box, just to make it look on different devices. And this is what we call Responsive.

So the website's going to change shape and change form a little bit depending on whether it's Mobile, Tablet, or Desktop. So that's our first big term out of the way. Responsive Web Design just means the website changes to best use the device. So it doesn't matter, Photoshop or Illustrator, but I've designed mine here in Photoshop, now we need to translate it into this. This is the finished version of our website where you can see it matches my Photoshop mock-up for Desktop, but when it gets down, watch this, down to Tablet, can you see, it changes there. I'm kind of dragging my browser in and out.

You see the font size changes, it becomes centered. The columns go from three across to two. So that is our term Responsiveness. And we're going to build this and get down to Mobile, where it just stretching one across. We'll also do some stuff where, we'll notice that there are six on Tablet, but only four on Mobil, so we're going to deactivate some of them.

We're also going to change the Menu along the top here. You can see, in my Photoshop mock-up they're all straight on Desktop but they kind of collapse into this other version on the smaller devices. So we've worked out what Responsive means and we know what we're going to be building. Let's go off now and start building it.

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