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<p>If you’d like to create your own dynamic web pages using the ASP server model, then let this book be your guide! Whether you’re just starting out with Dreamweaver and want to learn about ASP, or you’re already proficient with Dreamweaver and want to begin programming dynamic websites, this book will broaden your website programming skills. <p> You’ll learn Dreamweaver’s ASP server behaviors and many best practices for developing with the CSS and XHTML web standards. You’ll also absorb the basics of working with databases and the SQL language, and look closely at both Microsoft Access and Microsoft SQL Server. With this book as your guide, you will be able to create dynamic websites quickly, with Dreamweaver’s built-in tools. You will also acquire a solid foundation in coding ASP by hand.
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, the company web site also being home to various “web standards”-focused articles and Dreamweaver extensions. Rachel is a member of the Web Standards Project on the Dreamweaver Task Force, and she hopes to encourage best practices in the support and use of W3C standards in Dreamweaver. When not writing code, or writing about writing code, Rachel spends time with her daughter, tries to encourage people to use Debian GNU/Linux, studies with the Open University, and enjoys a nice pint of beer. Alan Foley is an assistant professor of instructional technology at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he teaches graduate classes in the College of Education. Alan holds a Ph. D. in educational technology from the University of Wisconsin&emdash;Madison. His current research interests include web accessibility and pedagogy, and accessible multimedia production. <p>Prior to completing his Ph. D. , Alan was a high school English teacher. While teaching, he was introduced to the world of instructional technology and web design. He has taught web design in a variety of educational and corporate settings, and consults for schools and universities on accessibility and usability issues. Drew McLellan has been involved in web design and development since 1996. Starting originally as a hand-coder, Drew quickly saw the great productivity benefits that could be brought by a visual editor with the arrival of Dreamweaver 1. 2. Since then, Drew has been pushing the boundaries of Dreamweaver through its solid HTML-based methodology and powerful extensible architecture. With literally tens of thousands of his Dreamweaver extensions in use around the globe, Drew has established a firm seating within the center of the online Dreamweaver community and can be found on a daily basis teaching and aiding fellow developers in Macromedia’s news forums. As a Team Macromedia volunteer, Drew is a committed Dreamweaver user and enjoys nothing more than being able to share his knowledge and experience of the product with fellow developers. Rob Turnbull is the senior developer for Lighthouse, an established new media design and marketing company based in Shrewsbury, England. Clients across Europe, from small businesses to blue-chip companies, provide an increasing workload, which includes the development of SQL Server database-driven websites, multimedia presentations, interactive CD-ROMs, promotional videos and DVDs, and 3D artwork in both animated and still form.
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I’ve used DW for 3 years. Within the last year, I’ve begun using DW to build basic ASP pages, linking information from an Access database to my company’s web site. I was ecstatic about this breakthrough, and so was my boss. She thought that since I could do this, I could do anything! That was a buzz-kill. I soon learned that I was going to be responsible for more dynamic web application development that was waaay over my head. . . So, I bought this book (and every other DW/DB/ASP book I could find. ) I flew throught this book in one night, and suddenly, things started to come to me. I was then able to use the examples in the book (and MANY resources online) to build the applications that I needed for work. I had NO grasp of cookies or sessions, and I sooned learned that these variables were the key to having my online users move through my web pages while entering information into a normalized database. This book is well worth 30$, and I will use it often. . .
Yes, this book is about using ASP with Dreamweaver MX 2004 – in COMBINATION with MS SQL. I’m at home doing some personal programming and can’t afford the SQL server software, so what good does this book to to me? A very small amount of the book is about ASP and access, which is the most commononly used database solution for small time web developers. Maybe a book entitled “ASP Web Development with DW MX 2004 for the Enterprise” would be a great idea.
I’m a moderately experienced ASP developer and was looking for some guidance on how best to apply Dreamweaver to my projects so I picked up this book based on various reviews I’ve read. I was sorely disappointed. The book is largely targeted at beginners and doesn’t cover any of its topics to any depth. The book doesn’t get to ASP until Chapter 4 and the first 120 pages (or so) of this 400 page book are entirely fluff that should have been edited out. Chapter 3, for example, covers “Accessibility and Dreamweaver MX 2004″ which, in and of itself, is not a bad topic but it doesn’t fit the overall subject matter. The remaining chapters cover database features built into Dreamweaver such as paging through a recordset or authenticating against a database using a form. These are interesting topics although they are easily learned by reading the online help and don’t really have that much to do with ASP, specifically, as these features abstract the programmer from the code and are available when using Dreamweaver with other programming languages such as PHP. In short, there is nothing groundbreaking in this book for anyone except the most basic beginners. If you have had mild exposure to ASP or Dreamweaver, save your money and use Dreamweaver’s online help.