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Second Day of Teaching

Today, I finished up the Beginning Dreamweaver class by taking our properly structured, yet boring, website and styling it with CSS. I showed the class how to use Dreamweaver's "Div Tag" functionality and the styles editor dialogue. The class took their menus, which were in list form, and turned them into a standard horizontal menu under a banner without little dots next to each item.

This is our styled website:

Day 2

Posted: Friday, January 21 2011

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Teaching Beginning Dreamweaver

I have successfully taught a beginning Dreamweaver class to students at Washington State University. As a part of my position in the Avery Microcomputer Labs (AML), the Mac computer lab at Pullman's campus, I am able to sign up to instruct English 300, a course designed around media production software.


The AML offers students access to:

  • Autodesk Maya
  • Adobe
    • Dreamweaver
    • Photoshop
    • InDesign
    • Flash
    • Illustrator
    • Fireworks
    • Acrobat
  • iLife
    • iDVD
    • iMovie
    • iPhoto
    • iTunes
    • iWeb
    • GarageBand
  • FinalCut Pro
  • Audacity
  • Microsoft Office
    • Word
    • PowerPoint
    • Excel


Today I went over the Dreamweaver interface and started the class off with building a website without CSS. I wanted them to understand that Dreamweaver was a tool for creating websites without needing to know code but that having some understanding of the standards. We discussed hierarchies and folder structure then lists of all 3 types, headings, paragraphs, images, hyperlinks, and titles. I am having them build a portfolio style website; which is why most of the students are taking the course. On Friday, we will take that basic, non-styled website and give it style.


This is my example that I created with the class to teach them:

Day 1

Posted: Wednesday, January 19 2011

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Videos Fixed

Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, and 9 will now play my videos. They are proven to work in Firefox, Opera, Flock, Safari, MSN Explorer, Internet Explorer, iPhone, iPad, and Android. If the browser doesn't support HTML5, the buffer time is, unfortunately, a lot slower.

Posted: Tuesday, November 23 2010

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IE Issues

Apparently, Internet Explorer 8 and 9 don't like my code and refuse to play my videos. I am currently working on a fix for this by implementing a flash player for those browsers that refuse HTML 5's video tag.

Posted: Monday, November 08 2010

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New Features

  • Self Hosted Videos with a player that will work in all browsers on all devices
  • Dynamic Pages for faster loading time and less BTS work

Posted: Saturday, November 06 2010

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