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.

Need to take your Macromedia Dreamweaver skills to the next level? You don’t have to be a programmer to build interactivity into your site. You just need Dreamweaver 8—Macromedia’s powerful new Web design and development tool—access to a Web server and an application server, and a copy of Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide.

• Takes a visual, task-based approach to guiding you through advanced topics and applying what you learn
• Works like a reference book - you look up what you need and then get straight to work
• Concise, straightforward steps and explanations offer the fastest way to learn tasks and concepts
• Companion Web site includes sample files

This valuable reference picks up where the Visual QuickStart Guide leaves off with advanced step-by-step tutorials on working with servers, setting up database connections, using SQL, and building dynamic pages—and that’s just in the first half of the book! The book’s second half includes clear, concise instructions on how to build dynamic forms and dynamic tables, create a search page for your site, and control access to your site with a user log-in and password.

You’ll get real-world examples and detailed illustrations of how and when features should be put to use, including what’s new in Dreamweaver 8: code-editing improvements such as the coding toolbar and code collapse, drag-and-drop integration of XML data, server-side transformations with XSLT, support for PHP 5 and ColdFusion MX 7, and more!

In this series, you’ll receive detailed instruction on the advanced design features of Macromedia Dreamweaver. Led by industry pro Janine Warner, the lessons are peppered with tips and tricks to help you create rich media designs and streamline the workflow process. Every topic includes tips and tricks designed to help you work faster, more efficiently, and above all else, with the best design control possible on the Web today.

Looking for timesaving ways to get frequently needed data-driven applications up and running? Look no further! In this book, you�ll find a primer for using data sources to connect your Dreamweaver pages to a database. Lowery and Ott then provide step-by-step instructions for creating 7 full-featured, professional-quality Web applications suitable for small to medium organizations. Follow the carefully constructed tutorials, and you can use them today�because all the files and code you need are available on the included CD! Better still, the explanations you�ll read will give you insight into why each step was taken so that you can extend any of the recipes to meet individualized needs.
Recipes for the following full-feature applications:

• User Login
• Employee Lookup
• Conference Room Scheduler
• In/Out Dashboard
• Time Cards
• Journal
• Mail Merge

Available for both the Mac and Windows, Macromedia’s Dreamweaver 8 is a professional web design and development program used by millions of Internet professionals to build high-quality static and dynamic database-driven web sites. It offers drag-and-drop simplicity, streamlined HTML coding tools, and powerful database integration features. But Dreamweaver 8 is missing one vital component: a printed manual.

Enter Dreamweaver 8: The Missing Manual, the completely revised fourth edition of this bestselling book by experienced web site trainer, Macromedia Certified instructor, and
Dreamweaver Advisory Council member David McFarland. This book enables both first-time and experienced web designers to create visually stunning and highly interactive web sites.
With crystal-clear writing and much welcome humor, this new edition offers features such as:

• Live examples: With McFarland’s step-by-step annotated tutorials, you’ll learn how to construct a state-of-the-art commercial web site, complete with working forms, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and dynamic
  databases.
• Tricks of the trade: The book is bursting with undocumented workarounds and shortcuts for easing the process of
  building, maintaining, and updating professional web sites.
• Design guidance: You’ll learn to create virtually every modern web feature, including forms, animations, cascading menus, and more–and you’ll find out which browsers you need to provide special coding or do extra
  testing with.

No matter what your level of expertise is, you’ll also learn how to manage your entire web site-whether you’ve just launched or if it’s been around for awhile and takes up thousands of pages. Beginners with no web design experience will appreciate the step-by-step guide to designing, organizing, building, and deploying a web site; long-time Dreamweaver users will
appreciate the advanced, real-world techniques for controlling the appearance of their web pages with CSS.