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Overview
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.
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.
- 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
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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Hi, so what are we going to be making in this course and what are the resources? We're going to be taking a design that we've made in a previous completely different class. It was for Web & UI Design using Illustrator. You don't have to have done that course, it's quite handy if you do want to do the Design process as well as the Build. So you can go do that. But we’ll be taking that design and turning it into a fully Responsive Website using Dreamweaver.
We're going to be using Live view a lot in this course. In our previous tutorial, I've used Code view. And that's fine, using Code view, but we're going to use the more live, tactile, whizzy whiz version of Dreamweaver. And I guess that's what makes Dreamweaver quite unique from other Code Editors. It's kind of drag, and drop, and click, and play type stuff. So we're going to focus on that in this course, a little bit of Code.
The other thing is, there's exercise files, and resources, that type of things. So there's exercise files you can download. There'll be a link on the screen that makes a little pop noise here. Go download those, and you can play along. There's also something called completed files. So at the end of every single video, I save the website to where I'm up to. Just so that, if you're getting lost, or can't work it out, you can download my version, and just check the code, and just see where you might have gone wrong.
Also, for this video we're going to talk about reviews and comments, there'll be a comments section on every page. So if you are having problems, and it's just not working for you drop me an email, or better yet, there's the on-page comments, so do that. Also, if you get to a point in this course where you're like "This is pretty good," leave me a review. Those sorts of reviews are the things that really help my courses do well and helps me be a full time, online trainer type person. So yes, you like the course, leave a review.
I think that's it, yes, that's it. Let's go off and start the course proper.
