Change fonts & spacing of a website for Tablet & Mobile sizes using Dreamweaver.

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38 lessons / 4 hours

Overview

Hi there, my name is Dan and together we’re going to build a portfolio website using Adobe Dreamweaver.

We’ll use Dreamweaver's handy templating tools to make updates to our site super easy. We’ll create our very own mobile 'burger menu' from scratch learning some basic Javascript & jQuery.

I am an Adobe Certified Instructor and better yet I work closely with Adobe themselves to develop their own online help videos. I am also a Dreamweaver speaker at the huge Adobe Max conference in Las Vegas 2017. I’m even inside your version of Dreamweaver right now... go on try it... open Dreamweaver > Go to Help > quick tutorial - I’m right there!This course is for beginners. You do not need any previous knowledge in Dreamweaver or web design experience. We will use Dreamweaver ‘split’ view so we can use all the good visual tools as well as doing some simple amends down here in the code as well.

In this series we will take this static design from either Illustrator or Photoshop and together, step by step, build everything in HTML, CSS & Javascript. We will make our own navigation. We will make adjustments so that everything looks great on different mobile devices.We will work with beautiful fonts & colours & even add Google Analytics to our site to get amazing information about exactly who visits your site.
 Now web design can sometimes be tricky so I am here to help - just message me if you get stuck. There are also exercise files so you can follow along. I even save a full copy of the website at the end of every video so that you can check yours again mine if you’re is not working quite right.

Check out this link here www.byolisawesome.com, for the site we build together. Let's get excited about finally being able to build a website like a professional web designer. See you in class.


What are the requirements?

  • You will need a copy of Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2017 or above. A free trial can be downloaded from Adobe.
  • No previous web design skills are needed.
  • No previous Dreamweaver skills are needed.

What am I going to get from this course?

  • 39 lectures 3+ hours of well-structured content!
  • You'll learn to build a responsive portfolio website from scratch.
  • Learn how to take a design from Illustrator & create a professional website.
  • How to use templates in Dreamweaver.
  • Create mobile, tablet & desktop versions of the website.
  • Build our own custom responsive navigation with burger menu.
  • Introduction to Javascript & jQuery.
  • How to publish your website to the internet.
  • Ways to preview your designs straight to your mobile device.
  • How to get the most from your portfolio Images.
  • How to use beautiful web fonts in your designs.
  • You will get the finished files so you never fall behind.
  • Downloadable exercise files & cheat sheet.
  • Forum support from me and the rest of the BYOL crew.
  • All the techniques used by professional website designers.

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.
  • NO: This course is NOT suited to people experienced in using HTML & CSS.

Course duration approx 4 hours + your study.
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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In this video, we want to take our Desktop view, which we've got here, but when it gets down to Tablet we're going to adjust this Hero Content here. So we're going to play with the Padding, change the Font size down on Mobile, even more. We'll change the Font size even smaller, adjust the Line Height, and we'll make everything centered. So centered, not centered. Big text. So now we want to go and do some updates to our Responsive Design.

We've designed this Hero Box for Desktop, but when it gets down to Tablet, there's a couple of changes. One of them is Padding from the side here, changes, it becomes kind of flat. And the Font size gets smaller. Font size gets even smaller than a Mobile, and becomes centered. And I've disabled this line here, on Mobile. Just I didn't like the look of it when it got down to Mobile because all of this was centered. So, let's go and do that now in Dreamweaver.

First up, we'll tackle the Padding. So, we've got this thing called Hero Content, that wraps up all my Hero Content. So we're going to add the Padding to this. So, Desktop, it's fine. Now we're going to go down to Tablet. We're going to click on that little Code Line there to jump where you can just drag this, remember. So, we're in Tablet, I want to get this to the edge now. In my design, in Illustrator, had a kind of flash against this Black Box but when I'm here in Dreamweaver, and I was practicing this for you guys, it's kind of, "I want to kind of have it roughly about 25 pixels." Or kind of aligns up with this Logo more. That is one of the creative freedom of being the Designer and the Developer. If I was following—

If I was designing this for somebody else and they gave me a Photoshop or Illustrator mock up, I'd do it exactly how they'd liked it. So, what we'll do is, 'styles.css', we'll do it for Tablet and we'll create-- there's no Selector at the moment for Hero Content, so we'll say, '.hero-content'. I would like you to have a margin of '25 pixels'. So better get that side, and I want it again on the other side, '25 pixels'. Nice! Let's do the spacing for the Mobile as well. So down here, it's back to 100 pixels, which was my Desktop. So I'm going to say 'Styles' 'Mobile' 'Selector' 'hero-content'. And I'm going to say, you my friend

You can always say 0 here, remember, we've got to kind of type it in again because 0 just means, actually we've left it at the default. And the default is under pixels, because the-- it's for the Desktop set. So 0 that side, 0 that side. Nice! Awesome! So the Font obviously is the big problem next, especially the Desktop, so we'll do with Tablet first. And what we'll do is, under Tablet view we're going to Style the H1. So the H1, when it's in Tablet view, I would like you to be a Font size-- so 'Fonts', 'Size'. Now I should go and check in Illustrator. Minimum, I guess. That seems okay, maybe a little small. So the other thing I need to do is play with my Line Spacing, or my Line Height. 'pixels', '0', and I'm going to get this to be something. All right, let's do it for Mobile.

There's a couple of things we need to do. One is, make it a lot smaller. So, 'Styles', 'Mobile'. 'Selector', 'h1'. And we will do a couple of things. We will do, first of all, 'font-size'. Actually I'll check what I've got in here, I should check this. So you at '46'. So 'font-size', 'pixels'. '46'. '406'. '446'? Remember, that's my keyboard, for some reason types in two digits there. All right, so that's the size. And I'm going to overwrite it as soon as I do it. Yes, well I do. And we're going to do, setting the center. Now it's aligning all the text to center, you can see in here, but you can see down here, it's not done these other attributes. So what we're going to do is, instead of styling the H1 for centered-- I will go and bin that. Because I did do the Text, everything that was text in there was centered, but I actually want other parts in there to be selected as well because that was just the H1.

So, what we're going to say is-- back to this 'hero-content' and say I want everything inside you to be centered. Now, the Line, this Image here-- this guy here is not, and you're like, "Hey, you just said so." It's because this one is Floated. So what we'll do in this case is we'll create a special Class just to push him over a little bit. We'll do how much do we hate him, stuck to there. I kind of hate him, so we'll do that next, just go and Style him out. But before we do that, let's 'Save All', and preview in the browser.

So Desktop, Tablet's smaller, and the Padding is different, which is awesome. And then down to Mobile, "Hmm." Gets smaller, and we're going to have to do the Line Spacing, which we didn't do. So it was the H1. So, 'Mobile', 'H1', 'Line Spacing', 'Text'. 'Line Height', 'pixels', bigger. That's about nice. 'Save All', test in browser. Better. Maybe it need to be a little bit high. So, if you don't have any Floated things, like we did here, that's going to be all you need to do.

So next part-- we'll save it for the next video. We'll disable this Line here and we'll get some special Classes to push him out. And it's nothing fancy, we're just going to apply Class to it and say, have Padding on Mobile, that kind of gets it centered. It can be really hard to actually properly center stuff when it's Floated, so we're going to cheat. All right, on to the next video.

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