Adobe Certified Professional Dreamweaver study guide
Adobe Certified Professional Dreamweaver · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Adobe Certified Professional Dreamweaver credential is a professional certification offered within Adobe's certification program, which Adobe lists among its resources for learners and professionals. It is intended for people who build and maintain websites and want to demonstrate working command of Dreamweaver - document setup and site management, page structure and HTML, styling with CSS, layout and responsive design, and handling assets, media, and publishing. The Adobe Certified Professional Dreamweaver study guide has 5 sections and about 1,585 words.
01Document Setup and Site Management
Dreamweaver's central idea is that a local site folder mirrors a remote server folder , and a site definition stores the mapping between them plus server credentials, testing-server URLs, and version-control settings. Candidates must know the three pieces of a site definition: local site folder, servers (remote/testing), and version control.
380 words, about 2 min02Page Structure and HTML
Every page needs a doctype, a html root with a lang , a head containing meta charset and title , and a body . Dreamweaver's New Document dialog sets the doctype (HTML5 is the default); the Document Type choice drives which code hints and validators are offered.
327 words, about 2 min03Styling with CSS
The CSS Designer panel manages three sources: external stylesheets (linked via link ), embedded style blocks in the head, and inline style attributes. Candidates must know that external sheets are cached and reused across pages, embedded styles apply to one document, and inline styles have the highest author-level specificity short of !important .
286 words, about 1 min04Layout and Responsive Design
Dreamweaver supports Flexbox and CSS Grid through the CSS Designer and Live view. Candidates should understand Flexbox's main axis vs.
290 words, about 1 min05Assets, Media, and Publishing
The Assets panel catalogs images, colors, URLs, and library items for the defined site; it reads from the site's folders, so files must be inside the local site root to appear. Library items ( .lbi ) are reusable snippets that update across pages when the source changes - but only pages using that item are updated on save.
302 words, about 2 min