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Available for projects in August 2010

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New Flash ART.kellymccormack.com launched

Adobe Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks CS4 training materials by Kelly McCormack now available for purchase online! more info...

Recent Web Design work:
BurgerSpread.com
StarglowStudios.com
BoulderFurnitureArts.com
FixationsArt.com
SCCATimeTrials.org
MountainGlassWorks.com
McCormackEtten.com

recent Art Gallery shows

Digital art photograph Final Blues (used as background on this site)
Shown at CORE New Art Space, Denver, CO through June 13, 2010.
Digital art photograph Kingdom Shown at CORE New Art Space, Denver, CO April 15 through May 2, 2010.
2 digital art photographs: OJO Gas* and Storm Country Noir* shown at CORE New Art Space, Nov 12-29, 2009. (* both receiving Honorable Mention).

Dreamweaver CS4 Training Materials
by Kelly McCormack

  1. Introduction to Dreamweaver
    1. Why Dreamweaver?
    2. The Interface
    3. Preferences
    4. Preview in Browser
    5. File System Best Practices
  2. Creating a Web Page and Text Formatting
    1. Defining a Local Site
    2. Page Titles
    3. Page Properties
    4. Font Choices
    5. Importing Content
    6. Special Characters
    7. HTML Tags and Basic Formatting
  3. Working with Graphics and Flash
    1. Overview of Graphic Usage Techniques
    2. Colors in HTML
    3. Image Formats for the Web
    4. Background Graphics
    5. Placing Graphics on the Page, Assets Panel
    6. Properties of Graphics, ALT text
    7. Image Editing in Dreamweaver
    8. About Flash
    9. Placing Flash Media on the Page
    10. Properties of Flash Media
    11. Placing FLV Flash Video on the Page
  4. Navigation Techniques
    1. Creating Links, Relative and Absolute, Targets
    2. Link Colors
    3. Linking to Named Anchors
    4. Linking to Email Addresses
    5. Image Maps
  5. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
    1. Properties panel
    2. CSS Overview
    3. The CSS Styles Panel
    4. Text Size in CSS
    5. Useful CSS Properties
    6. Tag Selector Styles
    7. .Class Styles
    8. #ID Styles
    9. Compound Styles
    10. Exporting CSS Styles
    11. Attaching (Linking) Style Sheets
    12. Cascading Order of Style Sheets and Inheritance of Style Rules
    13. Best Practices
  6. Page Layout
    1. Layout Overview
    2. Creating Example Table Layouts
    3. Premade CSS Layouts
    4. Basics: CSS Based Layout with DIV tags
    5. Walk-through: Creating a CSS Based Layout
    6. Advanced CSS Positioning: Static, Relative, Absolute, Fixed
    7. Scrolling Div tag content
    8. IECC Internet Explorer Conditional Comments
    9. Iframes
  7. Behaviors and Javascript
    1. About DHTML, behaviors, and javascript
    2. Rollovers (Swap Image behavior)
    3. Set Text of Container
    4. Show/Hide Elements
    5. Jump Menu
    6. PopUp Menu and Spry Elements
    7. Spry Effects
    8. Gallery Extensions
  8. Using Libraries and Templates
    1. Library Items
    2. Snippets
    3. Templates
    4. Template Best Practices
  9. Forms and Server-side Development
    1. Security
    2. Example uses
    3. HTML tags
    4. CSS styling
  10. Testing, Maintenance, SEO, and Uploading
    1. Find and Replace
    2. Clean Up XHTML and Apply Source Formatting
    3. Testing and Maintenance
    4. Favicons
    5. HTML Search Engine Optimization
    6. Remote Site Definition Settings
    7. Connecting to a Remote Site and Uploading/Synchronizing
    8. Contribute
    9. InContext Editing
  11. Links and Resources

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