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Adobe® Dreamweaver Develop Sites with CMS Support Presented by: Jonathan Meersman
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Session Agenda Presenter Background Adobe ® Dreamweaver Content Management Systems (CMS) Dreamweaver’s Integrated Features for CMS CMS Frameworks in Dreamweaver Dreamweaver/WordPress Demonstration Web Design at MATC Q & A
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Presenter Background Jonathan Meersman o Current Industry Employment Milwaukee Area Technical College – Web Design Faculty E-Business Consultant o Previous Industry Experience HostingSpot.com – Founder & Past President General Electric – eLead Systems Designer Milwaukee Kickers Soccer Club – Multimedia Coordinator o Education MBA in E-Business BA in Geography (focus: Computer Cartography)
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Adobe ® Dreamweaver What is Dreamweaver? o Industry leading web design/development program o MAC and Windows versions o Built-in FTP/SFTP client o Supports HTML, CSS, ASP, PHP, XML, JavaScript, Ajax, ColdFusion, etc.
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Adobe ® Dreamweaver History of Dreamweaver o 1997 – Developed by Allaire Systems o 2001 – Macromedia acquired Allaire o 2005 – Adobe acquired Macromedia o 2007 – Adobe Dreamweaver 9 (CS3) - 4/07 o 2008 – Adobe Dreamweaver 10 (CS4) - 10/08 o 2010 – Adobe Dreamweaver 11 (CS5) - 04/10 What will the future hold? o 2011 – Adobe Dreamweaver 12 (CS6) - 10/11 ???
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Content Management Systems (CMS) What are Content Management Systems? o Software for dynamic web sites used to create, edit, manage, and publish content at runtime in a consistently organized fashion o Content managed may include blogs, documents, images, audio files, video files, and web content o Used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry- specific documentation, such as: News articles Operators' manuals Technical manuals Sales guides Marketing brochures
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Content Management Systems (CMS) Benefits of CMS o Allows multiple authors to contribute to and share content o Controls access to content based on user roles o Separates content from design o Aids in easy storage and retrieval of content o Saves development time o Reduces repetitive duplicate input o Access site from any computer device with Internet access o HTML knowledge not required
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Content Management Systems (CMS) Types of CMS Solutions o Enterprise CMS Typically very costly – used by large organizations Often developed with ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, ColdFusion, or proprietary coding Examples: SharePoint (Microsoft) Oracle Content Management OpenText o Open Source CMS Free – used by individuals, small businesses, and even some large organizations Primarily developed using PHP & MySQL (also free to install and use) Examples: WordPress Joomla! Drupal
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Content Management Systems (CMS) Example CMS Sites o WordPress (blog-style) www.ycorpblog.com (Yahoo corporate blog) www.ycorpblog.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/blogs/directory.html (over 50 NY Times blogs) www.nytimes.com/interactive/blogs/directory.html news.harvard.edu news.harvard.edu o Joomla! (portal or general purpose) osu.okstate.edu osu.okstate.edu www.ihop.com www.ihop.com www.coolplanet2009.org (United Nations) www.coolplanet2009.org o Drupal (portal or general purpose) www.whitehouse.gov www.whitehouse.gov www.pga.com www.pga.com www.iq.harvard.edu www.iq.harvard.edu
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Dreamweaver’s Integrated Features for CMS Live Preview o Real time preview of you site in Dreamweaver, with ability of previewing content via any popular browser File Relationship with Filters o See how different PHP, CSS, and JavaScript files relate to each other when used to create dynamic content LiveView o Ability to browse throughout the site without leaving Dreamweaver (For best experience, combine LiveView with Live Preview) Site-Specific Code Hints o Ability to write CMS-specific code based on a particular CMS, with Code Hints relating only to that specific CMS
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CMS Frameworks in Dreamweaver Dreamweaver supports the following open source CMSs: o WordPress (blog-style) o Joomla! (portal or general purpose) o Drupal (portal or general purpose)
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Dreamweaver/WordPress Demonstration Live Demonstration of WordPress using Dreamweaver’s integrated CMS features
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Web Design at MATC Visual Communications (Multimedia) Visual Communications o 69 Credits (A.A.S. Degree) eBusiness Technology Specialist eBusiness Technology Specialist o 70 Credits (A.A.S. Degree) Web Designer Web Designer o 32 Credits (Technical Diploma) Web Programming Web Programming o 9 Credits (Advanced Technical Certificate)
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Q & A Time for Questions
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Presenter Contact Information Jonathan Meersman Milwaukee Area Technical College 6665 South Howell Avenue Oak Creek, WI 53154 (414) 571-4635 www.JonathanMeersman.com meersmaj@matc.edu
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Resources http://adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/ http://adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/ http://adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/?view=gettingstarted http://adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/?view=gettingstarted http://adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/application_development.html http://adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/application_development.html http://tv.adobe.com/product/dreamweaver/ http://tv.adobe.com/product/dreamweaver/ http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-dreamweaver-cs5/sitespecific-code-hinting-in-dreamweaver-cs5/ http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-dreamweaver-cs5/sitespecific-code-hinting-in-dreamweaver-cs5/ http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-dreamweaver-cs5/working-with-cms-frameworks/ http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-dreamweaver-cs5/working-with-cms-frameworks/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Dreamweaver http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Dreamweaver http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system http://www.lynda.com/tutoriallanding/63427 http://www.lynda.com/tutoriallanding/63427 http://irishguy.us/why-update-to-dreamweaver-cs5/ http://irishguy.us/why-update-to-dreamweaver-cs5/ http://wordpress.org http://wordpress.org http://drupal.org http://drupal.org http://joomla.org http://joomla.org
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