Dreamweaver CS5: Advanced with ASP

Adobe Authorised Courses

This course is for those who are able to build websites using Dreamweaver but who need to create dynamic, database driven websites or add dynamic content to an existing static site. This three day Adobe authorised course is designed to enable you to develop dynamic content using ASP applications and advanced Dreamweaver skills. We run separate courses for those using PHP or Coldfusion instead of ASP - please call for course outlines. The course covers setting up a site and building a simple, dynamic application. You will cover how to configure 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 also be taken as individual tuition or as a private company course.

Course Description

Getting started with dynamic web sites
• Defining a static site
• 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
• Working in Live View

Passing data between pages
• Understanding the HTTP protocol
• Retrieving data
• Setting and retrieving cookies

Sending email from a web form
• Introducing SMTP email service
• Writing code to send emails
• Introducing objects, methods, functions and properties
• Creating the web form
• Emailing 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

Practical example: 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 a custom CSS class
• Dynamically populated dropdown 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 All 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 Handcoding a CMS
• Planning the architecture
• Creating the database connection script
• Using visible and silent pages
• Creating a new record
• Editing a record
• Deleting a record