Dreamweaver Tutorials from the Univeristy of Minnesota

The Univeristy of Minnesota Duluth provides freely available self-paced Training documents and Workshops for web development and Dreamweaver. Here are their Dreamweaver Workshop Tutorials which will get you going with using Dreamweaver. These will teach you how to create a web site, work with images and hyperlinks, create and edit tables, use some management tools, and learn about Dreamweaver  behaviors in regards to JavaScript and PHP. A Dreameaver demo is available if you’d like to try this web development application before buying it.


Making Your First Web Page with Dreamweaver

In this beginning Dreamweaver tutorial you will learn how to create a simple Web page, adding content and hyperlinks, naming your files, and performing some basic exercises. 

• Adding and Changing Your Content
• Absolute and Relative Links
• Naming Files for the Web
• Viewing Your Web Page in a Browser
• Creating a Site
• Letting the World See Your Page
• Basic Web Page Exercise

Using this tutorial workshop, you will learn to insert and manipulate images, and create and edit tables.

• Inserting an Image
• Inserting an Image… Really
• Text Wrapping and Clearing
• Creating and Editing Tables
• Creating and Editing Tables 2
• Creating and Editing Tables 3
• Creating and Editing Tables 4
• Syllabus Exercise

This management tools workshop will show you how to define a site, use library objects, create and apply templates, and perform find and replace on your web pages and site.

• Defining a Site
• Library Object
• Creating and Applying a Template
• Find and Replace

Here you will learn what ”behaviors” are in Dreamweaver and how to use and code them. Dreamweaver “behaviors” are interactive components which give a web page the power to handle interactions with users, called “events”, and to provide responses to these events, called “actions”. Events and actions are programmed into a web page using JavaScript, which is placed into the web page source code along with the usual HTML. 

Some of the behaviors shown here can be developed in Dreamweaver without actually going through the process of  writing JavaScript. Dreamweaver will automatically put the JavaScript code into your web page through your use of the menu options available.

Having fun with JavaScript

These JavaScript examples will show you how many interactive features are accomplished. You can examine the details for each by clicking on the “example” link on the left. You can also look at the actual HTML and JavaScript source code (the programming instructions the browser uses to perform the desired behavior) used for each example by clicking on the “view source” link on each Javascript example page. You can insert most of these JavaScript examples into your web page using Dreameaver, so you really do not need to know how write JavaScript if you don’t want to learn this.

Having fun with PHP

Here you can learn to use PHP within your web pages. You can examine the details for each PHP example by clicking on the “example” link on the left. You can also look at the actual HTML and PHP source code (the programming instructions the browser uses to perform the desired behavior) used for each example by clicking on the “display” link on each PHP example page.

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