Advanced Skills

Introduction

Summary
More complex skills and areas of knowledge that are useful to anyone developing a Web site including advanced CSS techniques, advanced image editing, online Web forms and XHTML.

Supplement your understanding of the topics covered in this section by attending the following Staff Development course: Advanced Dreamweaver MX2004

Advanced CSS
To develop Web Sites that are more accessible and also search engine friendly involves using CSS (cascading style sheets). The advanced CSS section shows you what can be done with CSS, there is also more information about CSS in the resources section.

XHTML
The XHTML section describes the differences between HTML and XHTML and how easy it is to make your Web Site XHTML compliant. There is also more information on XHTML in the resources section.

Advanced Image Editing
The advanced image editing section shows you how you can further manipulate your images to achieve a more professional look. All the tutorials are for Photoshop Elements which can be downloaded from the CFS software.

Setting up a form
The setting up a form section offers downloadable PDF tutorials on how to set up a form in both Dreamweaver and FrontPage, and also details all the necessary code to get your form working.

Search Facilities
The search facilities section will show what code you need to add to your page and how to change it so that it works with your Web Site.

Password Protection
It is possible to password protect your Web Site or a part of it. The password protection section will show you how to do this, password protecting your site however does require you to install new software and activate new accounts.

Tab-int (Tabular data search facility) and Tab-int extended
The Tab-int section show you how you can create searchable Web page based on an Excel data set. The Tab-int extended section shows you how you can further modify your search.