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

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