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About this class 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. 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
Who will the lesson benefit? 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. What delegates will learn You Will Learn How To - Design and build data-driven Web sites with Dreamweaver
- Create and integrate images, 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
Contents of this class Dreamweaver Overview - Work area, toolbars and behaviours
- Customising the development interface and setting preferences
- Establishing the site foundation for ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, ColdFusion and JSP
- Publishing your site using FTP
- Editing an existing site
Designing and Formatting Web Pages Sophisticated layout capabilities - Accurately aligning text and objects using layout cells
- 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 magnetic interface with Flash Text and Flash Buttons
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 ASP and ASP.NET - 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 SQL Server with ADO.NET and OLE DB
Reading and searching databases - Developing single field search
- Building multiparameter search pages using advanced SQL capabilities
Creating update and delete 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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