Dreamweaver: Building Robust Web Applications

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Course Overview

Dynamic, fast, eye-catching and personalised Web sites are essential to maintain a leading-edge position. Dreamweaver makes this task easier.

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 ASP and ASP.NET, and maximise productivity and functionality with server behaviours.

Audience

This comprehensive course is valuable for 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.

Skills Gained

• Design and build data-driven Web sites with Dreamweaver
• Create and integrate Fireworks, Flash and CSS for enhanced effects
• Automate the creation of client-side JavaScript and server-side ASP and ASP.NET
• Build master/detail and database management Web pages linking to databases
• Improve productivity with custom server behaviours, templates, snippets and libraries
• Implement access control to Web content with user authentication
• Build XML Web services into your site

Course Outline

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

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
• Navigation bars and behaviours

Creating special effects with images and animation

• Organising media with the Asset Manager
• Working with images in Fireworks
• Creating a magnetic interface with Flash Text and Flash Buttons

Constructing Interactive Web Pages

Capturing 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

• Using Dreamweaver to simplify utilisation of session variables to maintain state
• E-mail enabling forms with CDO
• Creating custom server behaviours for automated programming
• Building data-aware pages with ADO and ADO.NET
• Leveraging and integrating Web services with Dreamweaver

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
• Creating 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

Improving productivity

• Storing and reusing code
• Building custom server behaviours
• Creating Dreamweaver extensions

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