Recommend a Dreamweaver Course

Swift66

Hello,

I used Dreamweaver a bit for work 8+ years ago and know some HTML and CSS.
I have an opportunity to get some training part funded and am considering a course in Dreamweaver. I cannot find many courses or much feedback about courses online but a search has thrown up the following course providers:

http://www.bigwavemediatraining.ie/courses-adobe-dw-ess.php

http://www.iactweb.com/dreamweaver.html

They both seem to be accredited by Adobe. Anyone have any experience of them?

Or any recommendations for a course in Dreamweaver?

Thanks

Banta

Firstly, why are you thinking of focussing on Dreamweaver? 8+ years ago, I can certainly understand why, when you were learning/writing HTML and CSS, that it was Dreamweaver that you were using. However, it's sort of become irrelevant these days in web design - not entirely, I understand, and I know some people that still use it as a preference for editing.

If it's to use it solely as a code editor (not the 'Design View') aspect of it, then there are a lot more editors freely available out there that are better than Dreamweaver and less resource heavy on your machine.

If it's to use DW's Design View, then I would recommend simply taking a course in HTML & CSS to learn how to code. Dreamweaver still adds a lot of excess code to the page in order to display what's in design view, and you loose a bit of control over the appearance of the page making websites this way. There a lot of free courses online (and very good ones) that you can use to learn HTML & CSS at a more advanced level. I'd, honestly be surprised if the majority of people on this forum recommend Dreamweaver as an editor, let alone would be able to recommend a course to you. Where as I'm sure you'll happily receive lots of recommendations for good free online courses to learn HTML & CSS, as well as people experiences with good free/paid editors.

NeutralHandle

Better to find a course that teaches html5, CSS, responsive design and principles of design. If you understand these then a tool like Dreamweaver should be easy to use and you will understand things much better.

L.Jenkins

Dreamweaver was something I was introduced to back in 2005 and I thought it was a dead tool. If it's HTML and CSS you want to work with and if you're willing to work with ASP.NET, JS and JQuery, Visual Studio works very well.

scriba

I was in a very similar position to you earlier this year OP, had to build something in html5,.CSS and JavaScript for a project and I thought to use Dreamweaver as I hadn't used it in 7.years.

I ended up doing the entire thing in code view anyway. It may as well have been in notepad++ Anything I didn't know how to do, it was quicker and simpler to find out how to do it on stack overflow in code/tags than find and use a Dreamweaver feature.

Get training in languages and technologies rather than tools, as suggested above.

L.Jenkins

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-express-vs.aspx

I can't recommend this enough. It allows for relatively easy testing as you go.