Adobe Dreamweaver: Advanced

Overview

This course is designed to introduce users to the more sophisticated and database driven facilities available in the package to enable you to create and manage complex dynamic websites.

This training may be available onsite; please contact us if you are interested.

Audience

For users requiring an in-depth knowledge of Dreamweaver and database integration.

Skills Gained

At the end of this course delegates will be able to:

• work with database driven websites
• use styles to format web pages
• create forms, create rollovers and assign and modify behaviours to increase user interaction
• add layers
• use multimedia objects to enhance sites
• and use the check browser behaviour.

Prerequisites

Delegates should also have attended the Dreamweaver Introduction course or have equivalent practical experience

Course Outline

Introduction to style sheets

• Working with cascading style sheets
• Using linked style sheets
• Redefining HTML tags
• Creating and applying custom styles

Working with forms and libraries

• Using forms
• Design and use forms with different form objects
• Database and server-side scripting
• Creating libraries

Behaviours & Rollovers

• Add interactivity e.g. pop-up menus and rollover images
• Add additional functionality to layers
• Working with rollovers

Working with layers

• Adding layers
• Modifying layers in the Layers panel
• Attaching behaviours to layers

Frames

• Consider how frames can be used to structure a website

Multimedia

• Insert multimedia objects such as Flash, java, audio and video files

Templates

• How to use and modify Dreamweaver Templates

Navigation Bars

• Add interactive navigation bars

Creating a Multilevel Dynamic Website

• What are Dynamic Pages
• Development Procedure
• Defining Data Sources

Managing Websites

• Define Site
• Application Server Choice
• Live Data Views

Overview of Server Behaviours

• Behaviours Palette
• Server Behaviours Palette
• Server side vs. Client side

Validating and Retrieving Form Data

Design a Database with Access

• Tables and relationships
• Creating a system DSN
• Creating a Database Connection
• Edit / Delete / Duplicate Connections

Retrieving Data from a Database

• Data binding
• Creating Recordsets
• Repeat region

Advanced Database Queries

• Filtering data
• Sorting data

Format Dynamic Data

• Document view formatting
• Live View Formatting

Create and Display a Search Interface

• Generating SQL statements
• Linking to detail pages

Create Dynamic Form Objects

Inserting, Deleting and Updating Records

Create Secure Web Area

• Create Login and Register Page
• Restrict access
• Use live database for verification

Upload Dynamic Web

• Using FTP
• Local v's Remote
• ISP Issues