Adobe Dreamweaver, a key component of the Adobe Creative Suite is an excellent environment for developing web content. If you have invested in this sophisticated piece of software, it makes sense to ensure that your staff knows how to use it effectively. Having allowed them a week or two to play with the package and go through the tutorials it contains, you will probably want to get them trained. Tutor-led software training has the benefit that delegates are able to ask questions as they learn and have complex concepts explained and demonstrated to them until they fully understand them.

Attending a scheduled, public Dreamweaver course is of course one possibility. However, increasingly organisations are demanding to have this training customised to meet their specific demands. Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 can be used for a variety of web-related tasks: not everyone uses it in the same way. Perhaps you will be using it to develop complete websites or intranets. Or, you may be using it to develop only one small section of a larger site. Maybe your staff will be using the program primarily to create newsletters or promotional material to be emailed to clients. Booking a customised course will ensure that you only pay for instruction which is relevant to your requirements and reflects the way in which you will be using Dreamweaver.

Before approaching training companies, it is a good idea to make sure you have a clear idea of what you want to achieve by using Dreamweaver and that your expectations are realistic. For example, Dreamweaver is not a tool which can be used to design websites: its role is mainly to build and maintain web pages and other web-related content. When you approach training companies, you should make it clear that you do not simply want them to deliver their standard Dreamweaver courses but that you require a customised programme of training. Between you, a schedule of topics to be covered should then be drawn up and the duration of the program decided.

Customisation may also involve identifying different requirements within your own organisation. Different people may need to do different tasks with the program and therefore need different skills. For example, you may have some people who will become web specialists and will need to learn the program thoroughly enough to build complete sites, create CSS style sheets and build Dreamweaver templates and library items. On the other hand, you may have people who will be web content editors and simple need to edit pages but not necessarily create them.

Any training company offering customised courses should be willing to accommodate the specific needs of your accommodation and the different profiles of the staff members who will be attending the course. Between you, you can then create a program of study which satisfies the needs of all users. Perhaps this may mean, having different courses for users with different profiles or perhaps the best approach will be a modular one whereby some modules are taken by everyone while others are only attended by certain user groups.

The author is a trainer and developer with Macresource Computer Training, a UK IT training company offering on-site Adobe Dreamweaver training in London, Bristol, Cantebury… and throughout the UK.

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