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Macromedia Training Overview
Dreamweaver MX: Level 3 is a hands-on instruction book that will introduce you to the basics of creating database-driven Web sites with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX.
Target Student:
This course is designed for Web developers and others who need to create and manage data-driven Web sites.
Prerequisites
To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following courses or have equivalent knowledge:
- Dreamweaver MX: Level 1
- Dreamweaver MX: Level 2
- HTML 4.01: Web Authoring, Level 1 (Second Edition)
- Access: Level 1
Delivery Method:
Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities
Benefits:
After completing this course, students will be able to create database-driven Web sites using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX.
What's Next:
This is the final course in this series.
Hardware/Software Requirements
You will need
- An Intel Pentium II (or equivalent 300+ MHz) processor.
- Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000, Windows 98, or Windows NT with Option Pack 4.
- The latest version of both Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
- At least 96 MB of available RAM (128 MB recommended).
- At least 275 MB of available disk space for software installation, and an additional 10 MB for the course data files.
- A 256-color monitor capable of 800 x 600 resolution (1024 x 768, millions of colors recommended).
- A CD-ROM drive.
- Macromedia Dreamweaver MX.
- Microsoft Personal Web Server or Microsoft Internet Information Server. (NOTE: You can't install Personal Web Server on Windows Me.)
- Microsoft Access XP, 2000, or 97, or recent ODBC drivers for Access databases. The latest drivers can be obtained from Microsoft by visiting www.microsoft.com/data and downloading the MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components) package.
Performance-Based Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Determine what server technology to use for a database-driven site, and set up a database-driven site in Dreamweaver.
- Create recordsets, and display fields and images on the page.
- Create a master list of items that links to a detail page, and create a page to display the results of a search form.
- Link form elements to recordsets.
- Create pages to insert, update, and delete records.
Course duration
1 Day
Macromedia Training Course outline
Lesson 1: Creating a Database-driven Site
- Topic 1A: Components of a Database-driven Site
- Topic 1B: Setting up a Database-driven Site
Lesson 2: Working with Recordsets
- Topic 2A: Creating Recordsets
- Topic 2B: Displaying Records
- Topic 2C: Paging Through Recordsets
Lesson 3: Creating Detail, Search, and Results Pages
- Topic 3A: Creating Master-Detail Pages
- Topic 3B: Creating Search and Results Pages
Lesson 4: Dynamic Form and HTML Elements
- Topic 4A: Creating Dynamic Form Elements
- Topic 4B: Dynamic HTML Elements: Alternating the Color of Table Rows
Lesson 5: Administering Database Records
- Topic 5A: Inserting Records
- Topic 5B: Editing and Deleting Records
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