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You Will Learn How To
- Design and build data-driven Web sites with Dreamweaver
- Create and integrate images, Photoshop SmartObjects, Flash and CSS for enhanced effects
- Automate the creation of client-side JavaScript and server-side application code
- Build master/detail and database management Web pages linking to databases
- Improve productivity with custom server behaviours, templates and libraries
- Implement access control to Web content with user authentication
Course Benefits Dynamic, fast, eye-catching and personalised Web sites are essential to maintain a leading-edge position. In this course, you gain extensive experience using the rapid automated design process of Dreamweaver. You learn to create and edit fast, sophisticated, data-driven Web sites with server-side code, and maximise productivity and functionality with server behaviours. You also gain hands-on experience formatting pages, enhancing navigation and linking to databases.
Who Should Attend Anyone involved in establishing, developing or maintaining a Web site. Knowledge of Web technologies at the level of Course 470, " Developing a Web Site", is assumed.
Hands-On Training An authentic case study provides you with experience using Dreamweaver. Exercises include:
- Formatting pages using Dreamweaver layout tools, Cascading Style Sheets and graphics
- Enhancing navigation with hyperlinks, hotspots, rollover buttons and Spry Widgets
- Integrating database content with server-side code
- Building Web applications and maintaining state with reusable scripts
- Linking to a database using forms
- Implementing user authentication to secure database access
Course Content 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
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