Dreamweaver Overview

• Work area, toolbars and behaviours
• Customising the development interface and setting preferences
• Establishing the site foundation for ASP, PHP and ColdFusion
• Publishing your site using FTP
• Editing an existing site

Designing and Formatting Web Pages

Sophisticated layout capabilities

• Accurately aligning text and objects
• Deploying Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for a precise and consistent appearance
• Creating templates for site consistency and ease of maintenance
• Coping with browser compatibility

Implementing site navigation

• Hyperlinks and custom controls
• Spry Widgets and behaviours

Creating special effects with images and animation

• Adding rollover graphics
• Organising media with the Asset Manager
• Working with images in Photoshop
• Creating a dynamic interface with Spry Widgets

Constructing Interactive Web Pages

Capturing user input

• Utilising form fields to guide user input
• Processing data from form submission and HTTP environment variables
• Intuitively creating SQL queries with point-and-click functionality
• Loading variables with user input for database interrogation

Building JavaScript with Dreamweaver tools

• Validating forms with point-and-click
• Client- vs. server-side scripting
• Customising server behaviours
• Reusing code with script libraries

Developing Web pages with server-side code

• Manipulating data dynamically
• Using Dreamweaver to simplify utilisation of session variables to maintain state
• E-mail enabling forms
• Creating custom server behaviours for automated programming
• Building data-aware pages

Integrating Real-Time Data

Connecting to diverse data sources

• Documents, file systems and RDBMSs
• Creating data-driven drop-down list boxes
• Linking to databases with OLE DB

Reading and searching databases

• Developing single field search
• Building multiparameter search pages using advanced SQL capabilities

Creating update data pages

• Defining and manipulating Recordsets with queries and stored procedures
• Building a drill-down master/detail form with the results page
• Displaying multiple records with the repeat region behaviour
• Creating Recordset navigation controls

Implementing access control and user authentication with server behaviours

• Creating a secure administrative Web interface for your database
• Constructing a secure, hierarchical, data-oriented search interface
• Designing login pages
• Restricting access to certain pages

Improving productivity

• Storing and reusing code
• Building custom server behaviours
• Creating Dreamweaver extensions
• Adding extensions from the Dreamweaver Exchange
• Utilising application objects for automatic page creation