Macintose Course 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.
Prerequisites:
To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following course or have equivalent knowledge:
- Dreamweaver MX: Level 1
- Dreamweaver MX: Level 2
- HTML: Level 1
- Access Level 1
Benefits:
After completing this course, students will be able to create database-driven Web sites using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX.
Target Student:
This course is designed for Web developers and others who need to create and manage data-driven Web sites.
What's Next:
This is the final course in this series.
Delivery Method:
Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Course duration:
1 Day.
Hardware/Software Requirements:
You will need:
- A Power Mac G3 or better.
- Mac OS 9.1 or higher, or Mac OS X 10.1 or higher.
- Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer 4.0 or greater.
- At least 96 MB of available RAM (128 MB Recommended).
- At least 275 MB 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.
- A PC computer running Windows NT or Windows 2000. NOTE: if there
are fewer than 10 students in the class, then you can use Windows XP with
Internet Information Services.
- Microsoft Internet Information Server installed on the PC.
- Microsoft Access 97, 2000, or XP, or recent ODBC drivers for
Access databases installed on the PC. The latest drivers can be obtained from
Microsoft by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/dataand downloading the MDAC
(Microsoft Data Access Components) package.
- Network connection between the PC computer and the Macintosh(es).
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.
Macintose Course outline
Lesson 1: Creating a Database-Driven Site
- Topic 1A: Database-Driven Site Technology
- 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
Lesson 5: Administering Database Records
- Topic 5A: Insert Records
- Topic 5B: Editing and Deleting Records
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