Macromedia MX 2004 Web Design Tools

Dreamweaver MX 2004, Fireworks MX & 2004and Flash MX 2004

This course is aimed at those individuals that which to be able to create web sites of moderate complexity that are easy to navigate and use some of the latest technologies to provide a pleasing experience for the site visitor. By incorporating the essentials skills in addition to more complex Flash animation, you will be able to build on the skills learned in this course. The manual that comes with the course is approved by Macromedia Education and provides you with additional step-by-step examples on how to integrate all three applications

Audience

This series is for beginners and intermediate-level users of DreamWeaver, Fireworks and Flash who wish to deliver Web site documents, develop Flash applications, learn ActionScript and who are looking at creating and producing web graphics and interactivity.

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004

This course will provide Web designers with the skills necessary to create and maintain Web sites using DreamWeaver MX 2004.

You will learn about the DreamWeaver MX interface, how to design, create and define a Web site. Skills learnt include how to link pages and how to create an e-mail link. The curriculum also teaches the learner how to enhance Web pages created in DreamWeaver MX. Participants are shown how to work with Flash objects.

DreamWeaver MX 2004 Basics

• Identify the key steps in the workflow for creating a Web site.
• Set up a local site.
• Create and save a new Web page.
• Import content and tabular data.
• Identify options to format text and paragraphs for the Web.
• Identify options to control the document structure.

Styles and Navigation

• Identify options for creating a new cascading style sheet (CSS) style.
• Apply a cascading style sheet (CSS) style.
• Export styles to create a cascading style sheet (CSS).
• Import an external cascading style sheet (CSS).
• Identify the characteristics of using images on Web pages.
• Identify the different options to link pages within a site.

Design, Testing and Uploading

• Identify the steps for using tables to design the page layout.
• Identify the steps for creating a layer.
• Identify the steps to create and apply a template.
• Identify the guidelines for testing a Web site.
• Set up a remote site.

Macromedia Fireworks MX & 2004

Macromedia Fireworks MX provides the tools for creating and producing web graphics and interactivity. It presents a single integrated, web-centred environment. This course introduces the fundamental concepts in Fireworks MX, including a description of the Fireworks interface and the tools that are used to create and enhance graphics objects. The learner is also introduced to working with layers. This course also presents the concepts of adding interactivity including slices, rollovers, and image maps. The learner learns how to create basic animations and how to export them to a web page.

Fireworks MX Fundamentals

• Match elements of the Fireworks interface with their functions.
• Identify Help resources for using Fireworks.
• Create a new document in Fireworks.
• Save a file in Fireworks.
• Match tools for selecting objects with their functions.
• Create a bitmap object.
• Identify options for drawing vector objects.
• Add text to a Fireworks document.
• Identify methods for transforming objects.
• Identify methods for organizing objects in a Fireworks document.
• Identify features of Fireworks layers.
• Identify methods for manipulating layers in the Layers panel.

Creating Interactivity

• Create a slice object.
• Identify methods for editing slices.
• Create a simple rollover.
• Export a graphic as an image map.
• Create an animation symbol.
• Set a frame delay value for a frame.
• Identify methods for manipulating frames.
• Identify guidelines for previewing animations.

Task Automation and Exporting

• Find and replace an element using the Find and Replace feature.
• Process files by using a batch process.
• Identify features of the Export Wizard.
• Identify ways of exporting Fireworks files.

Macromedia Flash MX 2004

Macromedia Flash MX 2004 is a tool for developing visual interactive content and applications. Animations, rich user interfaces, online advertising, e-learning courses, and enterprise application front ends can be created. This curriculum also takes the learner through the basics of graphic creation and acquisition for animations, and covers the fundamental steps in the creation and publication of an animation, with coverage of the incorporation of sound and video.

This course introduces learners to the basics of ActionScript. The course has four units. Understanding ActionScript introduces learners to the new features of ActionScript 2.0 and provides them with a broad-level framework. Working with ActionScript covers the main aspects of ActionScript namely, handling events, using the ActionScript syntax, and working with data. Working with Functions and Statements provides an overview of the types of functions and statements. Finally, you learn how to work with Movie Clips.

The course also covers how to build a rich Internet application with Macromedia Flash MX 2004. The unit Object-Oriented ActionScript 2.0 introduces learners to object-oriented programming (OOP) concepts used in ActionScript 2.0. Connecting to External Data provides information for sending and retrieving data to and from a Flash file. The third unit, Components, enables learners to identify and use built-in components, create their own components, write ActionScript for components, and export and import component packages.

Elements of Flash

• Identify the key features of Macromedia Flash MX 2004.
• Identify the main components of a Timeline in Macromedia Flash MX 2004.
• Identify the various methods of working with layers in Macromedia Flash MX 2004.
• Identify the key procedures related to frames and keyframes in Macromedia Flash MX 2004.
• Identify the steps to create shape tweens.
• Identify the key aspects of using ActionScript in Macromedia Flash MX 2004.

Features of ActionScript

• Identify the new features of ActionScript 2.0.
• Identify the methods for handling events.
• Identify the tasks for defining a variable and storing data in it.
• Identify the types of operators.
• Identify the tasks involved in creating a function.

Developing Flash Applications

• Identify the basic concepts of object-oriented programming (OOP).
• Identify the key aspects of defining class properties.
• Identify the different ways for connecting to external data.
• Identify the steps to add a built-in user interface (UI) component in a Flash document.
• Identify the steps to export and import Shockwave Component (SWC) files

Delivery

Computer Based Training, CD-ROM and Manual

Content

Interactive, skills-based

Qualifications

Keimos Certificate of Study

Duration

Approx 30 hours

Support

Included

Price

Keimos Web Design Courses

Our courses use simulations extensively to provide opportunities for students to learn & practice skills-based content. This “learning by doing'” model is far more effective than the traditional true/false, multiple choice approach. Live application software is not needed.

Interactive content is used often in the courses to engage the learner's attention, to reinforce and exercise skills being taught, and to provide feedback on the learner's grasp of a skill or concept.

News

CertCities.com readers picked CIW as the best Web/Internet certification to hold.

Best Web/Internet Certification

Winner: Prosoft Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW) Professional
Finalists: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Developer, CompTIA i-Net+

ProsoftTraining.com's CIW remained your pick for the best Web/Internet certification to hold, thanks to its “well rounded and vendor-neutral, focusing on logistics, configuration and skills in the working environment,” as one reader stated.

Even those not in this specialty appear to have respect for this title. Said another reader, “This is not my area, but my colleagues say CIW...”

Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX Developer came in a close second. “I feel that Macromedia is widely used and is probably a bit more user friendly,” said Glenda Simmons, a network systems engineer from Fresno, Calif.

i-Net snagged the second finalist position thanks to its coverage of Web fundamentals. As Harbour explained, “There's more to the Internet and the Web than just programming. You have to know the servers and how the Internet runs. Having a good foundation is vital to anything you do with the Internet.”

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