Dreamweaver CS6 Adobe Certified Associate (ACA)
The Adobe Dreamweaver ACA short course is designed to prepare you for the ACA exam in Dreamweaver. The course content is broken into two parts: on the Monday and Tuesday is the beginners course, and on the Wednesday to Friday is the intermediate course, including the ACA Exam taken on the Friday. Taken together, both parts of the course cover the whole ACA syllabus. Those who decide to take the intermediate course are expected to have a good working knowledge of the basics of Dreamweaver. The course includes lectures, tutorials and workshops, which cover every aspect of Dreamweaver relevant to the ACA exam. The course runs at our Holloway Road Tech Tower Building from 10am till 5pm with a 1 hour lunch break.
This course will also run as a part time course for 1 evening a week from 6-8.30pm over 10 weeks, starting in the autumn.
Course Objectives
- On this course you will cover the ACA syllabus that will prepare you for the Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 Professional ACA Exam.
Topics
- Setting Project Requirements
- Indentifying the needs of users and clients
- Understanding how to develop accessible media
- Project management issues and responsibilities
- Understanding copyright
- Planning Site Design and Page Layout
- Understanding best practices for designing a website
- Cross browser/platform design
- Understanding page layout design concepts and principles
- Understanding usability, readability, and accessibility
- Use of storyboards
- Understanding communication with client and others.
- Understanding the Adobe Dreamweaver Interface
- Understanding the Dreamweaver interface
- Using the Property inspector, Assets panel, Files panel
- Customizing the workspace
- Adding Content by Using Dreamweaver
- Defining and creating Dreamweaver site
- Inserting images and applying text on a web page
- Understanding how to link web content, using hyperlinks, e-mail links, and named anchor
- Understanding how to insert rich media, such as video, sound, and animation in Flash format
- Working with navigation bars, rollover images, build image maps
- Creating forms.
- Organizing Content by Using Dreamweaver
- Understanding document properties
- Organizing web page layout with relative and absolutely-positioned div tags and CSS styles
- Learning how to modify text and text properties
- Learning how to modify images and image properties
- Understanding how to create a web page templates
- Understanding HTML tags to set up an HTML document, format text, add links, create tables, and build ordered and unordered lists
- Add head content to make a web page visible to search engines
- Use CSS to implement a reusable design.
- Evaluating and Maintaining a Site by Using Dreamweaver
- Understanding how to conduct technical tests
- Understanding basic usability tests
- Identify methods for collecting site feedback and evaluation
- Publish a site to a server
Certification
- Adobe Certified Associate (on successful completion of the official ACA exam)
Minimum Knowledge Prerequisite
- Beginners: None
- Intermediate: Must demonstrate a basic working knowledge of Dreamweaver.



