How to make different columns for desktop, tablet & mobile websites in 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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Hi there, in this tutorial we're going to take our Desktop view which just has 3 columns, and when we get it down to 2 columns, when it gets down to Tablet, and then, when it gets down to Mobile, hey, just 1 column. Super easy to do, let's do it in this tutorial.

So currently we have one Class kind of telling it to be this third, 33%. So I'm going to click on it. This guy here, it's not the Image, it's the Div that's around the outside. Remember, Column just gets him to float left but this Column Large, or lg, is the one saying, be 33%. So we need two more applied to it, so let's make the first one.

So, 'CSS Designer, 'styles.css', I'm going to put this one in 'Tablet', and make a new Class called 'col'. We're going to do 'md', for median. And this one's going to have a width of percentage. And this percentage is going to be-- now it should be 50% to go equal, but I'm going to put Padding around it, so it will be 48% because I want the percentage margins on each side. I'm going to switch it to percentages '%'. And actually I might do this all the way around. So pick percentages with that little Locking Icon on. It means they go all the way around. So, all the way around. Nothing happens, because we're looking at a Desktop view, and we haven't applied a Class, so let's add it.

So I'm going to click on this. And add this one called 'col-md'. And if it still doesn't recognize it, like it hasn't been made, I'm going to click off. I'm going to do a 'Save All', then try and apply it, to you. Grab the external Class. Turn it off, turn it on and hopefully now, '.col-md', there it is there. I'm going to just save it all. So that's applied, so it's going to kind of work. So let's have a look in a browser. So instead of my Desktop size, we're going to get down to Tablet. You can see, he wants to occupy this. We need to do the Padding as well, so we might—

Well, we can play around with him in a little bit, let's just get the Images going. You can see, he is about half. So we need to do it for all of them. So, we could go through, select the outside Tag, add them all. I'm going to show you a little trick here. So, I want them-- can you see, how Classes are applied down here in Code view? So it goes-- Div has a 'class=', and inside these quote marks, all the Classes, 'col', 'col-lg', 'float-left', and 'col-md' get added. I'm going to show you a cool little trick, something specifically Dreamweaver.

If I click in here, and then hold down the 'Command' key and click in there as well, you can see, getting multiple cursors. This is really handy when you want to add a Class. 'col-md'. Don't add the period '.' at the beginning because we don't need it, because it says 'class' over here. Mix of all different Code view. And that's why we're adding them all at the same time. 'Save All', now check in the browser. Look at us, how good are we! So, Desktop view, and Mobile view.

I find these types of steps in the course quite satisfying. Probably, you'll do too. Let's go and do the Mobile version, and we'll do Padding in a little bit. So, we want to create a new Class. So 'Styles', we're going to stick it in Mobile. We're going to create a new Class in here called-- now, we should call it probably 'small', right? We're going to call it extra small. Why? Because I'm trying to get used to some of the styling language that goes on in big wide world of Web Design. And 'sn' is often used for Phablets, that kind of big phone size, like the iPhone Plus. We do have the plus sized phones. We could call it small, and that's fine, but normally people call it extra small for that kind of smaller mobiles that are about 300 pixels wide, like a standard phone.

And what we want to say is, we want you to be 100. So we're going to go not quite 100, we're going to add a bit of Padding around the outside. I'll do 98, make sure it's percentage. These guys, I'm going to lock it all the way around, and say "I'd like you all to be a percentage of 1.” Puts in a little. So now, 'Save All', test in the browser. Let's go down. Ready… that did not work. I did not apply it. So you've got to make sure—

You're probably looking at me, watching this video, going "That's not going to work, Dan." You need to do a bit more of your cursor tricks, we could add, remember, manually, but we're just going to be quick and go 'small'. It's not even small, it's extra small. 'Save All', check it in here, now we're working. Desktop. Tablet. Then down, Mobile. They're all stacked up, there's a bit of a gap around the outside. Looking pretty cool. There's a few little things to work on. But I think, a success. We've learnt how to do Responsive Columns in Dreamweaver. Let's go and tidy up a few things in the next video, but well done, everyone, we're getting close to having all the techniques we need to go and build, in your website. All right, on to the next video.

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