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Total Training for Dreamweaver 8
Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 training to learn how to efficiently layout, develop and maintain standards-based websites. Dreamweaver tutorials teach you with tips and tricks that can only be learned from an expert user of the software.
Total Training for Flash Professional 8
Learn inside tips for the most useful tools and features of Macromedia Flash Professional 8. Watch Flash tutorials on how to create better designs and author interactive content rich with video, graphics, and animation.
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Make your vision a reality with one of the industry's leading web authoring tools, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 software. Design exceptional websites faster than ever before with the new Live view and Adobe Photoshop Smart Object features.
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Advanced Training For Dreamweaver 8
Total Training for Advanced Dreamweaver 8 is now available. This new series offers eight hours of instruction on the advanced design features of Dreamweaver. Led by industry pro Janine Warner, the lessons are peppered with tips and tricks for creating rich media designs and will also teach you how to streamline your workflow process. Total Training for Advanced Dreamweaver 8 costs $149.99 USD.
Lessons include tips and tricks designed to help you work faster, more efficiently, and above all else, with the best design control possible on the Web today. Here are a list of highlights:
- Get up to speed quickly with a focus on the advanced design features, templates, extensions, and behaviors in Dreamweaver 8.
- You'll learn three different design approaches using real-world Web sites as examples so you can find the best approach for your Web site projects.
- Polish your skills with tutorials on how to best work with tables, layers, and cascading style sheets.
The presenter, Janine Warner is an author, speaker, and journalist. She has written 10 books about the Internet and design, including the best-selling "Dreamweaver 8 For Dummies" (now in its sixth edition), "Creating Family Web Sites For Dummies", and "Digital Family Album Basics". You can read an interview we did with Janine about her previous Dreamweaver video tutorials.
Free Video Clip Samples
The following are High Definition Dreamweaver clips courtesy of Total Training.
How To Align Images And How To Use Alt Text In Links.
How To Insert A Background Image In Dreamweaver.
Working With CSS And External Style Sheets In Dreamweaver.
How To Use The Window Size Option In Dreamweaver.
Working With Tables And Cells In Dreamweaver.
New Dreamweaver Video Tutorial
The following is a High Definition Dreamweaver tutorial courtesy of Total Training. To find out more about this training series, see our Total Training For Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 page, and read our interview with host Janine Warner.
If you want to be able to edit an image in gif or jpeg format after you've inserted it into your Dreamweaver pages and have Dreamweaver launch Photoshop instead of the default Fireworks, this tutorial will show you how to change the settings to make Photoshop the primary default image editor.
This is our very first clip in High Definition (HD). Benefits of HD include a 165% larger screen size for viewing on a computer monitor, crystal-clear image capture to easily read text and fine details, and higher frame rate support for smoother playback.
Have a look at our latest free video tutorial - Dreamweaver's Photoshop Settings.
Review: Macromedia Dreamweaver 8
The release of Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 (as part of Studio 8) comes at a time when the graphic and interactive design community is buzzing with speculation about what apps will be left standing after the Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia is completed. While Macromedia spokespeople told me they can't yet comment on acquisition issues, Dreamweaver will likely emerge from the process as the single dominant professional Web design package. I got an official "no comment" from contacts at Macromedia, but sources at Adobe winked and nodded when asked if Dreamweaver would win the battle of the Web-development tools.
Dreamweaver is, of course, the established tool of choice for the professional Web design community. Adobe's GoLive, while a stable, powerful set of tools, has never achieved the widespread implementation of Dreamweaver.
In the time between when Macromedia released MX 2004 and now, Web design has continued to evolve in profound ways. In particular, Web content and formatting has changed significantly on two fronts: content and formatting. More and more, site content relies not on static text, images, and data, but on embedded content from Really Simple Syndication (RSS) sources and other data resources (such as online databases). Live content supplies the lure that makes visitors return frequently for up-to-the-minute info.
The other front of dramatic change is formatting, with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) steadily replacing HTML as the lingua franca of page design. CSS is more flexible, more powerful, and adapts to more viewing environments. The combination of live data and CSS have been a driving factor in transforming how we create and maintain Web sites.
The new elements in Dreamweaver 8 are focused on the changes in content and format. For example, there is the new unified CSS Panel, CSS Layout Visualization, and new XML tools that facilitate embedding and applying styles to linked RSS content.
Read Review: Macromedia Dreamweaver 8
Interview With Janine Warner - Host of Total Training For Macromedia Dreamweaver 8
Read our interview with Janine Warner, author of the best-selling Dreamweaver For Dummies books, and host of the new HD video series Total Training For Macromedia Dreamweaver 8.
In the interview Janine discusses how Dreamweaver and GoLive differ, what her favorite new features in Dreamweaver 8 are, and talks about the new video training videos and who should benefit the most from them.
Web Design How-To: Build Better Sites With Dreamweaver's Power Tools
Templates are a core tool in Dreamweaver — and one that's gaining in importance and use. Many designers employ templates at the most basic level to ramp up their production efforts; however, an equal number of designers avoid them because incorrect setup and application left a bad taste. The benefits of templates far outweigh the time required to master them and it's definitely worth understanding how to do them right.
The goal in this article is to demonstrate proper template-building technique from the ground up. With the rise of the Macromedia Web Publishing System and Contribute, Dreamweaver templates are increasingly important. Old-style templates with one giant editable region are insufficient when creating designs intended for the Contribute audience. In this tutorial, you'll also see how to pinpoint your editable regions to maintain the designated styles while still allowing for complete user input.
Read Web Design How-To: Build Better Sites With Dreamweaver's Power Tools
SiteGrinder 2 — Photoshop Plugin Review
Review by Jennifer Apple
There often seems to be a strict division of labor within the world of web design and development. Creative professionals tend to stick to the Photoshop domain, while those well-versed in scripting are left to the task of implementing their work. Indeed, the two realms are quite different from each other, to which any of us even vaguely familiar with either can easily attest.
Essentially, Photoshop is a no-holds-barred design studio, offering the artist a seemingly endless array of creative options. On the other hand, HTML, CSS, Java and the like follow strict rules of engagement, requiring the developer to take any number of esoteric concerns into consideration in order to ensure that designs are properly displayed on the web.
Turn Photoshop Into A Complete Web Design Tool
SiteGrinder 2 seeks to bridge this gap between design and development. Basically, this program turns Photoshop into an easy-to-use and fully functional web design tool. With SiteGrinder 2, designers will now have the freedom to totally let their creativity loose and then, without skipping a beat, transfer their designs to the web. Bringing esthetic concerns together with more practical considerations, this program is an amazingly powerful tool that would make a fantastic addition to any web designer's bag of tricks.
So how does it work? Think for a second about the normal flow of work for any web design project. You'll spend a great deal of your time designing the visual appearance of your website in Photoshop, only to turn around and spend even more time working with a code editor like Dreamweaver or GoLive, going through the labor-intensive process of reconstructing these designs for the web.
Not to mention that fact that your creativity is often significantly limited when you're using a design program that's completely separate from the program that's used to prep everything for the web. Not everything that you design will be functional when it's translated to the web, nor will it be compatible with all web browsers period! As such, you'll often find yourself not going that extra creative mile just because you know that your web developer will have to re-work your designs just to make sure that they can be used online.
Generate Your Web Pages Directly From Photoshop
SiteGrinder 2 throws all these considerations to the wind. By generating web pages directly from Photoshop, you'll be able to spend much more time on the creative end of the spectrum, since you'll know right off the bat how well particular designs will translate to the web. No more going back to the Photoshop drawing board after getting a phone call from your development team, telling you that what you had envisioned doesn't have a chance of being displayed on the web. You can immediately visually and interactively test your designs, which permits you to then make changes to either esthetics or functions while it's still relatively early on in the design process.
With SiteGrinder 2, you can easily convert Photoshop Type layers into CSS styled web text. Virtually all of Photoshop's character and paragraph styles are supported by CSS, so you'll be able to ensure a smooth transition from workspace to web browser. This includes everything from bold and italic to paragraph spacing and alignment. Even hyperlinking is made easy, as SiteGrinder 2 will automatically turn any HTTP and e-mail URLs into hyperlinks.
Create Buttons, Rollovers, Popups & Menus
Likewise, SiteGrinder 2 will convert image layers to web graphics, generating automatically the HTML needed to display your images on your website exactly where you had positioned them in Photoshop. All the basic elements of any standard website are also easy to achieve by using SiteGrinder 2 with Photoshop, which allows you to create buttons, rollovers, pop-ups and menus. Pretty much all you have to do is tell SiteGrinder 2 about special layers by including "hints" when you name the layers – simply include "button", "rollover" or "pop-up" in your layer name and SiteGrinder 2 will create your preferred interactive feature automatically.
No Tables Here — SiteGrinder Produces Valid XHTML 1.1 and CSS
It's also a breeze to create a multipage website from a single Photoshop document, by using a Photoshop tool called the Layer Comps palette. Often overlooked, this incredibly powerful little tool lets you save and name particular document states, including the position and visibility of every layer. To create multiple pages, all you have to do is make the document look the way that you want a page on your site to look, and then make a layer comp — then set up the next page and make another layer comp, and so on. SiteGrinder 2 will then use these comps to figure out what to include on the web pages that it will generate for you. It's as easy as that!
SiteGrinder 2 effectively functions as your very own web technician, who knows all there is to know about CSS, HTML and other complex web formats.
You don't need to spend precious time and money learning the intricacies of web-speak when SiteGrinder 2 can do all this work for you, leaving you with much more time and freedom to explore the limits of your creative potential in the Photoshop world you know so well.
Pricing and Availability
Mac OS X and Windows versions of the SiteGrinder unlockable demo are available now via download. SiteGrinder 2 can be ordered from Media Lab's online store.
Photoshop and Dreamweaver Integration - PhotoshopCAFE Video Training
Even if you have no prior experience, Photoshop and Dreamweaver Integration by Colin Smith of PhotoshopCAFE.com fame will teach you what you need to know to create websites that will blow the competition out of the water.
Based on the book Photoshop and Dreamweaver Integration, this 2 1/2 hour DVD ROM shows you how to plan, design and launch your website.
Combining the 2 most popular web design tools, Adobe Photoshop and Dreamweaver, you’ll learn the workflow that the pros use. In a simple step-by-step, plain English approach, Colin will show you exactly what you need to know. This one-of-a-kind guide will show you how to create visually appealing and technically effective professional web sites.
• Set Photoshop preferences
• Create eye candy
• Use repeating patterns
• Make a final design comp
• Create roll-over effects
• Optimize gif, jpg and png
• Define a site in Dreamweaver
• Convert Photoshop designs to HTML
• Understand and use CSS
• Use Dreamweaver templates
• Embed Flash in Dreamweaver
• Improve Search Engine ranking
• Create remote rollovers
• Add Drop-down menus
• And more...
The simple-to-use interface lets you jump to any lesson with complete control over the playback. All the lesson files are included, so you can easily follow along.
About Colin Smith
An award winning designer, best-selling author and trainer, Colin is founder of one of the world's most popular Photoshop resource sites, PhotoshopCAFE.com. Colin is also a regular columnist for Advanced Photoshop, Computer Arts, and Photoshop User Magazine.
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