Dreamweaver

You will learn how to

• 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 benefits
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.

Who should attend
This comprehensive course is valuable for anyone involved in establishing, developing or maintaining a Web site.

Hands-on training
An authentic case study, modelled after a prototypical recruitment site, provides you with the experience of using Dreamweaver to design and develop a fully functional data-driven Web site. Exercises include:

• Formatting pages using Dreamweaver layout cells, Cascading Style Sheets and graphics
• Enhancing navigation with hyperlinks, hotspots, rollover buttons and navigation bars
• Integrating special effects with Fireworks, Flash and dynamic layering
• Tightly integrating database content with ASP, ASP.NET and ADO.NET
• Building Web applications and maintaining state with reusable scripts
• Linking to SQL Server using forms with drill-down capabilities and client-side validation
• Implementing user authentication with server behaviours and code 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, 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