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34 lessons / 3 hours

Overview

Dreamweaver (and web design in general) is such a hard program to teach yourself. We know, because as Dreamweaver trainers we have all taught ourselves. We wish we had a resource like this when we were learning.

Hand coding a website from scratch is now a thing of the past. Web designers use tools like Dreamweaver to a lot of the heavy lifting. We imagine this is your first website build and we're glad we're here to help make this process a little less troublesome. 

Who should use this?

Anyone that is brand new to Dreamweaver and anyone brand new to web design in general. If you're reasonably experienced in web design you might find this course a little slow going.

What do you need?

  • You'll need a laptop (Mac or PC)
  • Dreamweaver CC installed. Dreamweaver can be downloaded from theAdobe website here.

Can I use this tutorial with Adobe Dreamweaver CS4, CS5 or CS6?

No. Unfortunately there were some fundamental changes in the Dreamweaver CC update that makes CC and previous versions very different.

Remember you can download Dreamweaver CC free for 30 days. Don't worry - after your free trial has expired your files will still be updatable using any other web design program.

If you like the tutorials we'd love you to like, share and tweet it. We'd be very grateful.

Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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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Welcome to this Dreamweaver tutorial. My name is Daniel Walter Scott,  and I'm a trainer here at Bring Your Own Laptop. Um, this course is for people who are new to Dreamweaver  and new to web design. At the topic for this section is gonna be looking at  creating special characters within Dreamweaver. And when we talk about special characters,  we talk about things like the copyright symbol  and the trademark symbol and those types of symbols. In this case, what we're gonna do is we're gonna switch  to design mode.

Okay. And I'm gonna put a return in under my last paragraph,  and now we're gonna type in  copyright 2014. Okay? And now what I want is to add the copyright symbol  and in Dreamweaver they hide it up under  insert character. And you can see there's a bunch of symbols in here. Okay?

So kind of all, uh, mainly, uh, yeah, main used ones. So let's look at the one copyright. You can see it puts in a little c in there for us. Okay. To carry on this, what I'd like to do is I'd like  to add a little hyphen, and we're gonna put in site designed  by, and then put in your name. Okay?

And we're gonna use this in a later tutorial  to look at hyperlinks. Okay? So this little short little tutorial is how to add  symbols to your site. Okay? And they're all hiding under insert character. And you can see here's a  range of the symbols you might need.

Alright? Okay. Let's move on to the next tutorial.
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