Dreamweaver 8: Developing ASP Applications

Course Overview

Macromedia Dreamweaver 8: Developing ASP Application is a three-day course for those who already have some experience of using Dreamweaver to build static web content and who want to use Dreamweaver and ASP to create dynamic, data-driven websites. This popular course is designed to provide students with the practical knowledge and hands-on Dreamweaver skills required to build professional data-driven websites. The course focuses on combining Dreamweaver functionality (if you are working with PHP, please call for a separate course outline).

The course covers setting up a site and building a simple, dynamic application. You will cover how to co0nfigure your system to pass data between pages, send and receive email, communicate with databases, collect, process, filter and display dynamic data, authenticate specific users, work with dynamic forms and build update pages. If you wish to work on your own website or project as part of the training - this course can be taken as individual tuition or as a company course.

Day one of the course covers the benefits of using ASP.NET, connecting to and querying a database, creating re-usable templates and using DataSets.Day two will cover inserting and updating data, creating search forms and results pages, security issues and maintaining and deploying your site.You can choose between joining one of our popular public scheduled courses or taking this course as individual tuition or as a private company course in order to work on your own project.

Course Outline

GETTING STARTED

• Defining a static site
• Creating the contact page
• Creating a new page based on an existing page
• Working in design view, code view and split view
• Inserting and formatting text
• Inserting images from the insert bar
• Creating tables
• The Property Inspector and the Properties Panel

DYNAMIC WEBSITES

• Dynamic Web site basics
• Choosing a server model
• Redefining the site for dynamic development
• Developing with a local server
• Developing with a remote server
• Building a simple, dynamic application

PASSING DATA BETWEEN PAGES

• Understanding the HTTP protocol
• Retrieving data
• Setting and retrieving cookies

SENDING EMAIL FROM A FORM

• Introducing SMTP email service
• Writing code to send emails
• Introducing objects, methods, functions
• and properties
• Creating the web form
• E-mailing dynamic form values
• Client side form validation

DATABASES ON THE WEB

• A crash course on databases
• Connecting the site to a database
• Creating recordsets and
• Displaying database information.

Dreamweaver 8: Developing ASP Applications / ADW8-ASP