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Web Publishing Classes and Quick Starts

Dreamweaver Classes and Quick Starts

The Training site has registration information for hands-on classes and also provides information about class dates, times, and locations. You do not need to register for Quick Start classes.

• Dreamweaver Quick Start
  Dreamweaver is a powerful tool for creating and managing complex web sites. This session introduces users to the Dreamweaver interface and gives a brief overview of web publishing practices at MIT.
   
• New Features of Dreamweaver 8 Quick Start
  This one-hour demonstration highlights for experienced Dreamweaver users some of the new features and changes with this new version. Topics include changes to the coding environment, improved support for CSS, and other new features of the latest version of Dreamweaver.
   
• Web Publishing Basics Hands-on Class
  Using Dreamweaver and manual HTML coding techniques, create a variety of HTML pages that include basic elements, such as headers and titles, paragraphs, and bulleted lists. Explore other basic text elements like images, links, and tables.
  Learn how to organize these elements into a manageable multi-page web site. Upload files to Athena for access from web browsers across the world.
   
• Web Publishing Intermediate Hands-on Class
  This course takes experienced web publishers to the next level in honing their skills for publishing web pages at MIT. Students primarily use Dreamweaver, but also code some HTML by hand.
  
  Topics include a review of basic Dreamweaver skills, using Dreamweaver's site management tools (templates, site maps); Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to establish the look-and-feel throughout a site; preparing graphics for the web; scanning, creating, and editing images in Photoshop; selecting the right format and size; using graphics in web pages such as rollovers, background images, and image maps; and using interactive form features, such as email feedback forms.

Web Publishing Classes and Quick Starts

• Cascading Style Sheets in Dreamweaver Quick Start
  Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in Dreamweaver allow the web publisher to separate content from style and layout. CSS has many powerful properties that can make developing and maintaining a web site faster and easier. This session will cover the basic uses of CSS to control fonts, colors, leading, margins, typefaces, and other aspects of style in a web page.
   
• Best Practices in Web Publishing Quick Start
  Learn about the basics of MIT's web publishing environment. Topics include file naming conventions, folder structures, image formats, file transfer, and more. Recommended for those who are interested in learning the most efficient and painless way to keep web site files up-to-date.
   
• Intermediate Web Publishing Tips Quick Start
  Learn about intermediate to advanced features on web.mit.edu. With these features, you can manage and control more effectively revolving web sites, eliminate link rot, and improve search relevance.
   
• Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Quick Start
  Learn what RSS is, why it is an important communication tool, and how to use it. We will discuss News Readers and aggregators, incorporating an existing RSS 'news feed' into your web site and how to create and update your own RSS news feed.
   
• Web Sites for Everyone Using CSS Quick Start
  Learn how Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) can make your site more accessible. We will discuss the importance of separating content from presentation. We will demonstrate how accessible sites can still be dynamic and visually appealing.
  Note: This is not a beginning CSS class. Participants should be familiar with using style sheets and basic terminology.
   
• Web Design with Photoshop and ImageReady Hands-on Class
  Most professional web designers use Photoshop and ImageReady to create images, type, and pages for their web sites. Photoshop and ImageReady have numerous powerful and easy-to-learn tools to generate HTML code that can be opened in web browsers, such as Netscape/Explorer or linked to authoring software, such as Dreamweaver.
  
  In this one-day seminar, students will be guided through several tutorials that demonstrate how to create rollovers, animation, image maps, slices, transparency, backgrounds and banners, file optimization, layers, color control, and web photo galleries.

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