Adobe Dreamweaver CS4

Our current Dreamweaver offerings include:

Dreamweaver CS4, Level 1
Dreamweaver CS4, Level 2
Dreamweaver CS4, Level 3  (also known as Dreamweaver & Databases, Level 1)

Dreamweaver CS4

Dreamweaver is a professional Web site authoring program with innovative features and comprehensive design capabilities that are useful for beginners and seasoned Web designers alike. You can use Dreamweaver to create Web sites visually, with an easy-to-use graphical interface that shows you the changes you make as soon as you make them. The program is virtually identical on both the Macintosh and Windows platforms, making this powerful Web design tool available for all.  Nearly all the content in this workshop will be equally applicable to those using prior versions (Dreamweaver CS3, 8, or MX 2004).

The Level 1 workshop by itself will give you an excellent introduction to the basic features of Dreamweaver, while the Level 2 workshop covers a number of "power features" that add greatly to the richness and productivity of the program.

Dreamweaver CS4 Level 1

The workshop begins with a brief orientation to Dreamweaver and Web basics, and then quickly proceeds to creating a Web site structure ("local site") on your own machine, setting document properties, adding text content (including effectively importing Word documents), creating Dreamweaver templates for a consistent look across multiple pages, placing images on your pages, and adding and customizing links.

Dreamweaver CS4, Level 1
Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of using your PC and "surfing" the Web. Useful but not required is basic knowledge of simple HTML coding (e.g., via the Web and HTML workshop)
Instructor: Peter Kimble, Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE)
Hours: 7
UIUC CEUs: 0.7
CPDUs: 7 -- Illinois teachers are eligible to earn 7 CPDUs
Fee: $138

Date / Time: Sept. 29, 2009 (Tu); 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (lunch on your own 12:30 - 1:30)
Windows User Registration Code: W-2856-E
Mac User Registration Code: M-2857-E
Location:  UI Armory Building,  Suite 156 (use NE entrance to Armory)

Date / Time: Nov. 4 & 6, 2009 (WF); 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Windows User Registration Code: W-2874-E
Mac User Registration Code: M-2875-E
Location:  UI Armory Building,  Suite 156 (use NE entrance to Armory)

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Dreamweaver CS4 Level 2

Learn to effectively control the format of your Web pages with Dreamweaver's powerful CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) tools, including the use of CSS layers easily layout your page structure. You'll also use libraries and "snippets" to streamline your workflow, and create more sophisticated link structures, including "rollovers," navigation bars, and the use of "Spry User Interface Widgets."  We'll create Web forms to collect data, using text and check boxes, radio button, drop-down lists, and more. We'll also examine some of Dreamweaver's coding tools, and explore the use of XML

Dreamweaver CS4, Level 2
Prerequisite: A Dreamweaver Level 1 workshop, or equivalent knowledge)
Instructor: Peter Kimble, Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE)
Hours: 7
UIUC CEUs: 0.7
CPDUs: 7 -- Illinois teachers are eligible to earn 7 CPDUs
Fee: $138 (includes workbook)

Date / Time: Nov. 11 & 13, 2009 (WF); 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Windows User Registration Code: W-2878-E
Mac User Registration Code: W-2879-E
Location:  UI Armory Building,  Suite 156 (use NE entrance to Armory)

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Dreamweaver CS4, Level 3 (Dynamic Pages with Dreamweaver)
(this workshop is also known as "Dreamweaver & Databases, Level 1")

Using Dreamweaver's database capabilities, you can quickly and easily create Web applications that interact with external data sources and scripts to provide dynamic, data-driven Web applications. DreamWeaver can create Active Server Pages (ASP), ColdFusion templates, and PHP pages, all in Dreamweaver's visual development environment. This means that you can create dynamic, customized Web sites without having to learn a complex scripting language or an entirely new design and development application.

After exploring the Dreamweaver database environment and dynamic site concepts, you'll learn how to create a "recordset" from a database (a "recordset" is simply a selection of data from a database), and how to sort and display recordset content in a Web page, complete with "previous" and "next" links.  We'll then continue with "drill-down" and search applications, allowing you to move between master and detail record pages, and to display the results of database searches.  Moving on from simple display techniques, you'll use Dreamweaver's "delete record," "insert record," and "update record" behaviors to create an application that inserts, deletes, and updates records in a database.  Finally, we'll explore a few additional "dynamic content methods," including populating "select lists" with dynamic content, and setting table attributes dynamically.

Macintosh User Note:  For this workshop, we'll be using Dreamweaver with an ASP application server and a Microsoft Access database, which limits this workshop to using Windows computers.  Other application servers supported by Dreamweaver include ColdFusion and PHP, and any compliant database program may be used, including  Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, FileMaker Pro, and mySQL (PHP is limited to mySQL).  However, Macintosh users will find Dreamweaver for Windows to be nearly identical to the Mac-native Dreamweaver for Macintosh.  We've included a separate Mac User registration code to track the interest in the Mac version... but you'll be using use a Windows computer for this workshop.

Dreamweaver CS4 Level 3  (Dynamic Web Pages with Dreamweaver)
(also known as Dreamweaver & Databases, Level 1)

Prerequisite: Prior Dreamweaver workshop, or equivalent knowledge
Instructor: Peter Kimble, Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE)
Hours: 6
UIUC CEUs: 0.6
CPDUs: 6 (Illinois teachers are eligible to earn 4 CPDUs for this workshop) 
Fee: $122 (includes workbook)

Dates have been CHANGED!
NEW Date / Time: Dec. 14 & 15, 2009 (MTu); 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Windows User Registration Code: W-2882-E
Mac User Registration Code: M-2883-E
Location:  UI Armory Building,  Suite 156 (use NE entrance to Armory)

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This workshop extends and expands upon the Dreamweaver database techniques introduced in the Level 1 Dreamweaver & Databases workshop.  You'll learn how to use Dreamweaver behaviors to add login applications and access rights to a site, controlling user access to pages based on information in the database.  You'll also work with "session variables" and "cookies" to pass information between web pages, and store information for future reference by the site.  We'll also build a more complex search form (utilizing multiple fields of a record), and sort the results dynamically based on the user's choice.  And finally, we'll explore creating custom server behaviors, one way to extend Dreamweaver's capabilities even further.

Dreamweaver & Databases, Level 2

Prerequisite: A Dreamweaver & Databases Level 1 workshop and its prerequisites (see above)
Instructor: Peter Kimble, Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE)
Hours: 5
UIUC CEUs: 0.5
CPDUs: 5 (Illinois teachers are eligible to earn 5 CPDUs for this workshop)
Fee: to be determined (see below)

Note:  We are currently searching for a new workbook provider.  If we are able to find appropriate class materials, and there is sufficient interest, we may offer this workshop again.
(Our previous workbook is now permanently out-of-print.)

Please contact us via our contact form, or call (217) 333-4161 for more information.

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CourseBuilder for Dreamweaver

The "CourseBuilder Extensions" for Dreamweaver were developed by Macromedia (since acquired by Adobe) to "enable you to create interactive Web pages with engaging Web-based learning content and deliver them across multiple platforms and browsers."  Originally, the CourseBuilder extensions for Dreamweaver were available as a free download.

Now, however, "Dreamweaver with CourseBuilder Extensions" is only available as part of the "Adobe  eLearning  Suite."  Adobe's eLearning Suite bundles together several major software products, including Flash ("with Learning Interactions"), Photoshop, Captivate, Presenter, etc., and is priced accordingly.

Should Adobe at some future time make "Dreamweaver with CourseBuilder Extensions" available as a separate product, we will again be offering this workshop.

In its original form, when the CourseBuilder extensions were available separately, this workshop covered:

 Accessing & editing "CourseBuilder for Dreamweaver" interactions
 Constructing random and structured "explore interactions"
 Generating multiple choice interactions including true/false
     and "all-that-apply" questions
 Building drag and drop matching interactions and multiple step procedures
 Creating text entry exercises and evaluate responses
 Scoring, evaluating, and displaying results for simple interactions

Dreamweaver and CourseBuilder

Prerequisite: A Dreamweaver Level 1 workshop and its prerequisites (see above)
Instructor: Peter Kimble, Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE)
Hours: 6
CEU’s: 0.6
CPDUs: 6 (Illinois teachers are eligible to earn 6 CPDUs for this workshop)
Fee: $124 (includes workbook)

This workshop is not being offered at this time, since the CourseBuilder extensions for Dreamweaver are currently only available as part of Adobe's full eLearning Suite (see above).
Please contact us via our contact form, or call (217) 333-4161 for more information.

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