Design Desk Computer Lab
is located in the
JHU Gilchrest Building
Montgomery County
Rockville, Maryland
(also referred to as the
Gaithersburg area)

Only five students per workshop

Choose either a Mac or PC

2-Day Workshop Cost: $329 per day

Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

See our Calendar for a schedule of all Design Desk workshops throughout the entire year.

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Information compiled and updated by Design Desk on 01/10/10.

Design Desk two-day workshop in Adobe GoLive CS2 is offered once a month, and will prepare you to create your own web page with ease and efficiency. Adobe GoLive CS2 makes HTML, links, graphics, and animation accessible to everyone. Design Desk uses only Adobe certified instructors.

Our workshops cover basic features for the beginner, intermediate features for those familiar with the program, and specific training for advanced students. It is essential that all students have basic computer skills. Please discuss your needs, specific or general, prior to placement in a class. Student class book is Adobe GoLive CS2 Classroom in a Book by Adobe Press.

Topics in the class include:

• Increasing efficiency by specifying preferences for creating a new page, increasing memory, flattening scripts, and managing sites.
• Customizing your own set of keyboard shortcuts.
• Creating, maintaining and managing a site.
• Planning and developing a site by creating different site diagrams.
• Laying out pages using grids, tables, layers and frames.
• Creating, resizing, formatting, modifying, and designing tables.
• Adding, importing and formatting text content
• Defining text attributes using HTML codes.
• Creating, using, and defining external and internal cascading style sheets.
• Checking spelling and using find and replace.
• Adding images, rollovers, image maps, pop-up menus, actions and multimedia.
• Managing and editing links, URLs, and e-mail addresses locally and sitewide.
• Working with Smart Objects to add Photoshop images and Illustrator artwork.
• Designing and creating forms.
• Increasing efficiency by using templates, stationeries, snippets, and components items.
• Working with the site assets of external URLs, e-mail addresses, colors, font sets and diagrams.
• Using collections to perform file-managing tasks on a group of files.
• Generating queries to check for consistency throughout the site.
• Synchronizing a site for download and upload.
• Creating and maintaining co-author sections for updating content by an editor or writer.
• Working with PDF documents.
• Rewriting, editing, and checking syntax of source code.