Web Designer Training

Suitable for designers who are using Actinic Designer to design and deploy sites for clients, this course takes a comprehensive look at all the design features of Actinic. It also includes tips and advice for effectively deploying sites, and passing on updates to your clients.

Delegates should be PC literate, familiar with using Actinic Designer to a basic level and be familiar with HTML.

Course summary and outline

The Web Design with Actinic course is for web designers using Actinic Designer. It starts with implementing an existing custom design in Actinic, before taking delegates through a thorough examination of the design architecture that underpins Actinic stores. At the close of the course, delegates will be shown techniques for effectively handing over the control of sites, and design updates, to their clients.

If you are building a store for yourself, then this course will not be suitable for you - instead, you should consider the Designing Your Actinic Store course.

Content

Designing in Dreamweaver:

• Implementing a completely new design with Actinic

Introduction to Actinic:

• Themes and colours
• Selecting alternative layouts
• Overview of the Design tab
• Editing other Actinic pages
• Editing Actinic's CSS

Variables:

• Adding variables into the design
• Creating new variables
• Limiting variables by content category

Layouts:

• Editing layouts via the Design tab, and undoing changes
• The Design Tree and the Library
• Creating new layouts
• Importing layouts
• Creating and editing layout selectors
• Inserting layouts into the design
• Editing lists

Conditions:

• Inserting conditions into the design
• Creating reusable conditions

Deployment and Implementation:

• Transferring entire sites to your customers
• Transferring design updates to your customers
• Quickly populating Actinic with content