You can find a large selection of Dreamweaver CS4 videos at the Adobe TV site. Many of the videos are highlight and intro videos that walk you through the new features of Dreamweaver CS4. Here’s a sampling of videos along with links that will open a new window and play the Flash videos.
Learn Dreamweaver CS4 – Working with Photoshop and Dreamweaver
Edit Smart Objects created from Photoshop PSD files, directly in Dreamweaver. Copy, paste, and optimize slices from PSD files.
Learn Dreamweaver CS4 – Introducing Dreamweaver CS4
Become familiar with the workspace and creating new documents. See how you can style text using CSS, preview and edit files, and manage files.
Learn Dreamweaver CS4 – Getting Started: 01 What is Dreamweaver?
Get an overview of what Dreamweaver can do. Create web pages, structure and declare text, and place images on the page. Use CSS to format a web page.
Learn Dreamweaver CS4 – Getting Started: 02 Defining sites
Plan websites for optimal layout and organization. Define a site from multiple locations. Use the Site Definition interface to connect to a server.
Learn Dreamweaver CS4 – Getting Started: 03 Rapidly building layouts
Design pages using Dreamweaver’s prebuilt starter pages. Choose between one-, two-, and three-column layouts. Add headers, footers, and sidebars.
Learn Dreamweaver CS4 – Getting Started: 04 Adding text and images
Personalize a website with custom text and images. Add assets using multiple workflows. Integrate Word, Excel, and Dreamweaver.
Learn Dreamweaver CS4 – Getting Started: 05 Styling text
Use CSS rules to style web pages. Write contextual or descendant selectors to change the size, color, and font of text. Duplicate rules for subheadings.
Learn Dreamweaver CS4 – Getting Started: 06 Dreamweaver integration
Take advantage of Dreamweaver’s integration with other Creative Suite applications. Use the Creative Suite workflow to import Photoshop files.
Learn Dreamweaver CS4 – Getting Started: 07 Adding multimedia
Enhance websites by adding multimedia elements, such as video. Use Dreamweaver’s integration with Flash to create FLV files. No scripting required.
Learn Dreamweaver CS4 – Getting Started: 08 Managing and uploading sites
Use Dreamweaver’s testing feature to check links and its site management capabilities to upload websites to remote servers.
Learn Dreamweaver CS4 – Styling text in the CSS Property inspector
Use the CSS Property inspector to easily create, edit, and apply cascading style sheets (CSS) to your document.
Learn Dreamweaver CS4 – Using views and workspaces
Learn to work in Design view, Code view, Split view, and Vertical split view. Switch between workspaces optimized for designers and developers.
Learn Dreamweaver CS4 – Working with related documents
Work with all documents that are related or attached to the current document without losing the current document’s focus.
Learn Dreamweaver CS4 – Spry Tooltip and form validation widgets
Learn to create tooltips with the Spry Tooltip widget. Learn about the form validation widgets that come with Dreamweaver.
Learn Dreamweaver CS4 – Connecting to an SVN server
Set up a connection to an SVN (Subversion) version control server.
Learn Dreamweaver CS4 – Defining a Site
Learn how to set up a Dreamweaver site, the first step to building a website in Dreamweaver.
Learn Dreamweaver CS4 – Creating a Spry data set
Build a Spry data set in a few easy steps. You can build both HTML and XML data sets.
Learn Dreamweaver CS4 – Using JavaScript, DOM, and Spry code hinting
Write code more rapidly with code hinting support for JavaScript, the DOM (Document Object Model), and Spry.
Learn Dreamweaver CS4 – Using ConnectNow to share your screen
Use ConnectNow to share your screen with other users online, directly from the interface of your CS4 application.
Learn Dreamweaver CS4 – Managing Design Suite workspaces
Move among CS4 design applications easily with the common interface elements. Adapt each to your style with a preset or custom workspace.
Learn Dreamweaver CS4 – Introducing Adobe InContext Editing
Create Adobe InContext Editing pages in Dreamweaver, and then see how inexperienced users can easily make changes to them online.
Taming the Web – What’s New in Dreamweaver CS4
Follow along as Greg gives you a whirlwind tour of the most compelling new features in Dreamweaver CS4, covering Photoshop Smart Objects, Live View, Live Code and much more!
Dreamweaver CS4 Feature Tour
Product Manager Scott Fegette demonstrates new features such as the Live View, Code Navigator and AIR Authoring.
Source: PhotoshopSupport.com
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