Enhance your web design expertise in this three-day Dreamweaver Intermediate course. Master advanced CSS, tableless layouts, dynamic content, and form validation while working with real-world projects. Build visually engaging, high-performance websites. Book your place and advance your skills.

Building on foundational Dreamweaver skills, this intermediate course takes you further into professional web design and development. Delivered in small groups at our London studio or via live online sessions, the course combines demonstrations, practical exercises, and best practices to enhance your workflow and technical expertise.
Throughout the course, you’ll focus on advanced CSS for styling and layout, designing websites without tables, and building multi-column layouts using nested DIVs. You’ll also explore Spry and Widgets for dynamic content, creating functional tableless forms, and integrating external data from Excel and XML sources. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to design interactive, professional websites that perform well across devices and browsers.
Here is what you will learn on this Dreamweaver course in more detail. Click the topics below to explore what is covered in each section.
Advanced CSS techniques give you complete control over your website’s design, layout, and functionality. This section helps you go beyond the basics to create responsive, accessible, and visually refined web pages that perform well across devices. You will focus on:
• Using tags, links, classes, and IDs to target specific elements precisely
• Applying advanced CSS selectors for efficient styling
• Combining external, embedded, and inline styles effectively
• Controlling layout with relative and absolute CSS positioning
• Managing print and media-specific style sheets for different output formats
Modern web design has moved beyond table-based layouts. This section shows how to use CSS and DIVs to create clean, flexible, and responsive multi-column page structures that are easier to maintain and SEO friendly. You will practise:
• Building two- and three-column responsive layouts
• Nesting DIVs to establish logical page structure
• Enhancing functionality with the Dreamweaver Extension Manager and built-in extensions
Adding dynamic and interactive components to your website can significantly improve user engagement. In this section, you’ll learn how to use Sprys and Widgets to create visually appealing, data-driven, and responsive web elements. You will explore:
• Designing Web 2.0-style interactive elements
• Integrating Sprys, Widgets, Data, and Effects for dynamic content
• Creating Spry menu bars, accordions, and tabbed panels for intuitive navigation
Forms are vital for user interaction, feedback, and data collection. This section focuses on designing and validating stylish, accessible forms that integrate seamlessly with modern, tableless layouts. You will focus on:
• Understanding essential form elements and field types
• Styling and aligning forms using CSS for clean presentation
• Adding validation with Spry tools to ensure accurate user input
Connecting your site to external data sources makes it more powerful and interactive. Here, you’ll learn how to work with structured data formats to display dynamic, real-time information. You will practise:
• Importing and using data from Excel and XML sources
• Applying HTML, Excel, and XML data for content-driven layouts
• Creating and managing Spry data sets for interactive, data-rich websites
Adobe Labs offers innovative tools that extend Dreamweaver’s capabilities. In this section, you’ll experiment with creative effects, prototypes, and automated features that enhance your design workflow. You will learn:
• Introduction to Adobe Lab Tools and experimental workflows
• Creating subtle animated effects for modern web experiences
• Using Auto-Suggest and interactive features to improve user experience
Every Docklands Media course comes with a range of added benefits to support your learning at no extra cost.
Receive an official certificate of completion to validate your training. Ideal for portfolios, CVs, or proving your skills in Dreamweaver.
Access our email and phone support for a lifetime. Contact us with any technical questions related to what you have learned on your Dreamweaver course.
Need a refresher? Retake the same Dreamweaver course for free within 24 months. A great way to solidify your learning or get up to speed with new software updates.
Receive training notes, project files, and 7-day access to instructor-led video tutorials. Perfect for reinforcing key lessons and practising at your own pace.
We're committed to providing the best training experience possible. That's why we offer a range of discounts and flexible payment options to make your Dreamweaver course more accessible and affordable.
Get discounted rates when booking for two or more people, or if you're enrolling from a charity. Save 5–15% depending on your group size or institution type.
Book your Dreamweaver course at least three months in advance and get 10% off. Secure your place early and save on top-quality creative training.
If you're not fully satisfied on the first day of your Dreamweaver course, let us know. We'll do our best to make it right—or refund you in full. No hassle, no risk.
Spread the cost of your training over 3, 6, or 12 months. Our instalment plans help make creative learning more accessible, with interest rates as low as 5%.

Tareq is a fantastic web designer, programmer and an Adobe Certified Expert in al things web. He has helped thousands of people to learn how to program in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and XML.
Hear directly from professionals and teams who’ve trained with us, sharing their experiences and the impact our training has had on their creative journeys.
As well as creative individuals, we are also the preferred training provider for some of the most successful global brands and organisations.
Just a few of the common questions asked by our students.
No. Our Dreamweaver courses are designed for complete beginners through to those with some web-design experience. You’ll begin with fundamentals and progress to advanced layout and onboarding techniques.
We teach using the latest version of Adobe Dreamweaver to ensure you learn modern, W3C-compliant workflows for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Clients using older versions will still benefit from the key practices taught.
Yes. You’ll work with Dreamweaver’s dual view—using both the visual design interface and live code editor—gaining confidence in rapid layout and writing clean, structured code.
Absolutely. Dreamweaver is a powerful tool for designers, marketers, and freelancers using visual and code workflows. The skills you develop—responsive layout, editing templates, and publishing—are directly applicable to real projects.
Yes. All project files, templates, and exercise assets are provided so you can revisit the modules and consolidate your learning when practising on your own.
Definitely. The course is hands-on. You’ll create, style, preview, and publish websites—understanding FTP/SFTP workflows and layout best practices—so you can launch live sites independently.
Yes. You’ll learn how to build fluid, responsive layouts using CSS, media queries, and Dreamweaver’s fluid grid tools to adapt sites across mobile, tablet, and desktop.
Contact us today to learn more about our courses and how we can help you achieve your creative goals.
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