Background

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.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

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
Dynamically Populated drop-down menus
Creating Filtered recordsets
Revising the calculation script with live data
Documenting your code with comments

FILTERING AND DISPLAYING DATA
Preparing the input page
Generating URLs dynamically
Preparing the output page
Populating page layouts dynamically
Adding dynamic images

BUILDING THE TOUR DESCRIPTIONS
Creating recordsets with joins
Building the descriptions
Inserting images and alt attributes
Implementing recordset paging
Passing data to other applications.

MANAGING CONTENT WITH FORMS
Creating the admin section
Creating the form interface

BUILDING SEARCH INTERFACES
Creating the Search Alt link
Searching by region and country
Switching SQL statements
Testing and debugging

AUTHENTICATING USERS
Building the registration pages
Building a log-in page
Restricting access to pages

BUILDING UPDATE PAGES
Planning master-detail pages
Making the detail page updateable

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS