Foundation ASP for Dreamweaver 8

by Omar Elbaga

Do you want to learn about Microsoft s ASP and use it via Dreamweaver 8 to add the power of a database to your website Use dynamic web forms to exchange data between you and your users Build complete web applications This book shows you how to do all that and more Dreamweaver 8 takes a lot of the hard work out of performing tasks such as integrating a database into your website but it can t do everything That s why this book not only shows you how to use all of Dreamweaver s functions but also shows you how the underlying code functions so you can then work around Dreamweaver s shortcomings There s no attempt to turn you into a code guru but you ll come away with sufficient knowledge of basic ASP to have the confidence to dive into the Dreamweaver code and tweak it to your own requirements The emphasis is exclusively on ASP so you don t waste any time on information that s not relevant to what you want to do Omar and Rob first take you through the latest version of Dreamweaver and how ASP fits into it then look in depth at setting up your work environment installing ASP Access and SQL Server and the IIS web server making sure they are all working together and setting up a new web site via Dreamweaver They then get to work using several tutorials and real world examples covering topics such as ASP Essentials knowing what ASP code looks like working with forms designing and implementing effective databases using Access and SQL Server debugging and troubleshooting and creating dynamic navigation login and search functionality This book looks specifically at using Dreamweaver s built in server behaviours to build dynamic web sites using ASP Microsoft s highly popular classic server side language along with Access or MySQL databases The latest version of Dreamweaver includes even more powerful support for ASP Examples built throughout the book include a content management system and an online image gallery All examples are design

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