Foundation ASP for Dreamweaver 8

Dreamweaver is Macromedia s best-selling web design/development environment, which has in excess of 3 million users worldwide. The new version of it is available later on this year. In this book we look specifically at using Dreamweaver s built-in server behaviors to build dynamic web sites using ASP, Microsoft s highly popular classic server-side language, along with Access or MySQL databases. The new version of Dreamweaver includes even more powerful support for ASP. Even though in more recent years, ASP has been superceded by ASP.NET, it still remains a very popular web development language, especially among Dreamweaver developers.§Omar Elbaga and Rob Turnbull first take you through the new 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. Examples built throughout the book include a content management system, and an online image gallery. All examples are designed to meet modern usability requirements and be web standards compliant. No previous experience of ASP or databases is required to use this book.