Why reinvent the wheel every time you design a new Web site? With this book, you don't have to. By providing real-world recipes for building dynamic Web applications using Dreamweaver with ASP, ColdFusion, or PHP, this book shows you how to save time and money while focusing on the things that make your site unique. In these pages, a trio of Dreamweaver experts provides reusable recipes for User Login, Employee Lookup, Conference Room Scheduler, Survey Builder, In/Out Board, Time Card, Journal, and E-Mail Merge. Included are thorough explanations of all of Dreamweaver MX 2004's new features: dynamic cross-browser validation, improved CSS support, built-in graphics editing, secure FTP, tighter integration with other Macromedia tools, enhanced coding tools, and more. Each recipe includes discussions of application structure, database components, data binding concerns, and application-specific issues. The end result is a collection of recipes for Dreamweaver success that you'll find yourself using again and again.

Packed with hands-on instruction and step by step tutorials, the Dreamweaver MX 2004 Bible is everything you need to harness the power of this amazing web development tool. Starting with the basics, expert author and well-known Dreamweaver guru Joe Lowery guides you through the in's and out's of Dreamweaver MX 2004 and will have you building your very own dynamic, data-driven sites in no time. Coverage includes:

• Building interactive forms
• Creating client-side image maps
• Connecting to a live database
• Inserting, deleting and updating data from your web pages
• Working with layers, Style Sheets and Dynamic HTML
• Integration with Flash, Fireworks and ColdFusion
• Designing with templates
• Extending Dreamweaver with your own extensions
• And more.

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The Web-based training field is hot, and this comprehensive toolkit will prepare you to take advantage of the opportunities it offers developers. Everything you need to create your own e-learning curriculum is here–software, plans for building your courses, site templates, a database, a dozen samples, and complete step-by-step instructions for using them all. There’s a section devoted to Dreamweaver basics, an overview of e-learning concepts, a quick course in creating effective tests, plus plenty of expert tutorials and hands-on examples. You’ll feel confident designing, developing, and implementing WBT courses with the most popular Web publishing tool in the world.

You’ll learn how to:

• Design interactive pages, manage reusable content, and apply cascading style sheets
• Install and use Learning Site and CourseBuilder extensions
• Develop valid test questions and reduce the odds of accurate guessing
• Select, control, and process CourseBuilder interactions
• Choose layout styles for effective site navigation
• Create drag-and-drop and image hot area interactions
• Track test results with the Learning Site database