How best to preview your website in Adobe 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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Hey there, we're at super extreme close-up version. So I can show you how to best preview your website using Dreamweaver and real time browser preview. Let's go check it out.

So while you're working you've got, on Split View, we can see the Code and we can see the Live View at the top here. And this is totally fine to preview your website. The only trouble is, there's blue lines everywhere. You can drag this edge here, to re-size it to see what it looks like on different views. My only trouble is - double click to make it fit back out again. - is that it doesn't always update perfectly here. And it's better than it's ever been but I always like to preview in the browser.

First thing you need to do is make sure you've got Google Chrome installed. If you're working on a Mac, and got Safari but not Google Chrome you need to go and download that, and install it. Why? Because everybody uses Google Chrome, and if it works in Google Chrome it's more than likely it's going to work in lots of the other browsers. So test in that one. It's amazing, the percentage of people that actually use Chrome versus any other browser, including Internet Explorer, or Safari, or Firefox, so whatever you use, you can also test in there, but make sure you've got Google Chrome installed.

Once you've installed it, it should just appear in, under 'File', 'Real Time Browser Preview'. It should just appear in here, like mine does. If it doesn't, you can go to 'Edit', 'Browser List', and find it. So once it's installed, you go back up to exactly where we just were, or more easily, there's a little icon down the bottom here. And you can see here, 'Preview in Chrome'. And the browser appears, and you can see it here, there's my Logo and I can click it, and it's all good.

The cool thing about the new version of Dreamweaver is-- this is what's called a real time browser preview. And all that really means is that when I update the code here in-- I'm going to move this so you can see both of it. When I update this, and say, actually I want my logo to be 131 pixels wide, you can see, it just updated perfectly without me having to go off and reset it, or save it. It's dynamic, it just means that-- I'm not sure I want that size when I delete it, it just updates while I'm working.

Now during this course we are limited to the screen that you can see but I've actually got two monitors here on my computer. So I have this one up on another screen, which you can't see now. And I have this at full noise here. And it just means that when I update this on this monitor over here that you can't see, it's updating visually so I can see it. So if I am hiding away in Code view, doing some stuff, I can see the adjustments happen in case I'm making a mistake, or just to preview it as it's going. I hand it over to real life talking Dan to show you.

So while I'm working, I've got two screens up. I've got Dreamweaver on this one and I've got my big screen showing Google Chrome with the real time browser preview, so I click on this. And then I click, show in real time browser preview, watching it over there. Let me just make a big change so you can see easily on the camera. So I'll grab here, Image, just turn you off. Watch this, good, gone. So I make a change here, and it instantly shows over here. It's really just handy if I'm working in here, and it looks all fine but then, it changed over here. It's a really common way of working as a Web Designer. Two screens, it looks awesome.

So thank you, real Dan. That is how you preview on your browser. You can check in here, but make sure you double check in the actual browser. We'll look at checking on mobiles and tablets later on when we actually have something to check on them. So that is it, let's go into the next tutorial. See you there.

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