GoLive CS2 Introduction (HTML) (2 day) UK Classes & Lessons (Adobe)

About this class

Adobe GoLive allows designers to create websites with full creative control and flexibility. GoLive also includes a powerful range of features enabling project and content management once your site is up and running. This comprehensive course is designed to get you using GoLive's range of features quickly and easily. You will cover planning and building a new website, adapting legacy websites, creating on-line forms and tables, working with frames, integrating interactivity, site management issues and working with actions and tools to help you unlock the power of CSS. GoLive also supports data binding and this course will provide an overview of GoLive's powerful dynamic publishing features.

Contents of this class

The following outline highlights what is covered on each of the two days. Feel free to tailor the course content to your own requirements if you wish.

DAY ONE

INTRODUCTION

GoLive and HTML/XHTML
Planning your site
GoLive Objects
GoLive Inspector
Converting existing graphics for use on the web
Using Adobe Bridge

BASIC FEATURES

Editing and formatting text
Adding links
Working with anchors
Adding background colours
Adding images
Using the Refresh function
Setting up Browser Preview

BUILDING CSS BASED PAGES

Building pages that conform to open standards
Tools to aid writing code direct

CREATIVE CONTROLS

Working in layout mode
Using the Inspector window
Working in text mode
Importing from other websites
Integrating elements produced in other software applications

WORKING WITH TABLES

Using the table icon
Defining your table
Using Pixel and Relative sizes
Creating full-width pages
Placing text and images
Creating grids

WORKING WITH SMART OBJECTS

Importing Photoshop images
Creating rollovers in Photoshop
Editing Smart Objects
Converting Smart Objects to tables
Using the Smart Objects folder

CASCADING STYLE SHEETS

The Style Sheet toolbar
Creating standards compliant CSS content
The Text Inspector
Using internal and external CSS
Element Tag Styles
Class styles
CSS precedence

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

DAY TWO

FRAMES IN GOLIVE

Issues with frames
Using frames for efficiency
Targeting frames
Assigning frame attributes
Switch for non-frames viewing
Absolute and relative frame sizing

CREATING FORMS

Designing a form
Applying form elements
Assigning form methods
Principles of form submission

WORKING WITH ACTIONS

Opening alert windows
Setting image URLs
Controlling sounds

CYBEROBJECTS

Browser switching
URL pop-up menus
Creating rollovers
Adding a date and/or timestamp

GOLIVE AND DYNAMIC HTML

Creating mouse rollovers
DHTML layers - floating boxes
Working with floating boxes
Adding multimedia actions to floating boxes

WORKING WITH HEADER TAGS

Formatting the keyword and content meta tags
Explaining search engine principles

ORGANISING YOUR SITE

Creating a site plan
Plotting a navigation path
Creating and testing links
Displaying your site's structure

INTRODUCING MULTIMEDIA

Ready to use JavaScript actions
Embedding movies
Multimedia issues

DYNAMIC WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT

Overview of GoLive's Dynamic capabilities

SITE MANAGEMENT

Displaying the site structure
Editing the hierarchy