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Training Course Summary:

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004: Dynamic Application Development provides students with no prior Dreamweaver experience the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build a web application with Dreamweaver. This course focuses on teaching the fundamentals of the Dreamweaver interface, web programming languages, and databases to build a dynamic, data-driven application in ColdFusion, ASP, or PHP.

Who Should Attend:

This course is for people new to Dreamweaver (or who have used it only to build static web sites) that want to use it to create data-driven web applications.

Training Course Overview/Content:

Unit 1: Introducing Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Newland Tours
Defining a static site
Creating the "Contact an Agent" 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, the Properties panel (of the Selection panel group)
Unit 2: Dynamic Web Sites
Dynamic web site basics
Choosing a server model
Redefining the Newland Tours site for dynamic development
Developing with a local server
Developing with a remote server
Building a simple, dynamic application
Unit 3: Passing Data Between Pages
Understanding the HTTP protocol
Retrieving data with query strings/URL variables
Retrieving data with hyperlinks
Setting and retrieving cookies
Unit 4: Sending E-mail From a Web Form
Introducing SMTP e-mail service
Configuring your system to send SMTP e-mail
Writing the code to send a message
Introducing objects, methods/functions, and properties
Creating the web form
E-mailing dynamic form values
Client-side form validation
Unit 5: Building a Tour Price Calculator
Creating the pages
Building the form
Collecting, processing, and displaying the data
Adding server-side form validation
Creating the conditional region
Creating and applying a custom CSS class
Unit 6: Databases on the Web
A crash course on databases
Touring the Newland database
Connecting the site to a database
Creating recordsets and displaying database information
Unit 7: Completing the Price Calculator
Dynamically populated drop-down menus
Creating filtered recordsets
Revising the calculation script with live data
Documenting your code with comments
Unit 8: Filtering and Displaying Data
Preparing the input page
Generating URLs dynamically
Preparing the output page
Populating page layouts dynamically
Adding dynamic images and formatting the population number
Looking up foreign table data with SQL
Unit 9: Building the Tour Descriptions
Planning the application
Creating recordsets with joins
Building the descriptions
Inserting images and alt attributes
Implementing recordset paging
Passing data to other applications
Unit 10: Building Search Interfaces
Preparing the search page and creating the Search All link
Searching by region: building the interfaces
Commenting code for testing and debugging
Suppressing the navigation bar conditionally
Searching by country: filtering by form variable
Switching SQL statements according to environmental variables
Unit 11: Authenticating Users
User authentication as a web application
Building the registration pages
Building the log-in page
Creating an Application.cfm (CF only)
Enabling sessions in PHP
Restricting access to pages
Unit 12: Managing Content with Forms
Creating the admin section
Two approaches to formatting content stored in a database
Creating the form interface
Using session variables and hidden fields to track users
Inserting the record
Unit 13: Building Update Pages
Preparing the pages
Planning master-detail pages
Making the detail page updateable