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Lessons in this Chapter: - Making sure you have all the development tools and hosting that you need. See the live web site that is developed
- Creating the foundation of the site by starting a Web Site in Visual Web Developer 2010
- Changing from one ASP.NET version to another. In this case, the course shows converting from the default ASP.NET version in Visual Web Developer 2010 of 4.0 down to version 3.5 and covers how this can cause some issues and how to correct them.
- Establishing a database for Membership and Membership Role management with SQL Express using the ASP.NET Configuration tool in .NET.
- Exploring the database that is created and discuss the addition of custom tables.
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Chapter 1: Creating a New Site
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Lessons in this Chapter: - Creating a new site in Visual Studio or Visual Web Developer and test it
- Adding a new page to your web directory and understand code behind vs. inline code models
- Adding a Server Control to a web page for an Event Handler
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Chapter 1: Getting Proper Hosting
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Get an overview of what you'll need to put your website on the web.
Lessons in this Chapter:- Understand domain names and other related information.
- Discuss Hosting companies and what they provide.
- IP Addresses and DNS (Domain Name Server) and ways to use them.
- Discuss the necessary components required to gain full benefit from the Dreamweaver MX with ASP and MySQL courses.
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Chapter 1: Introduction to HTML
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Lessons in this Chapter:- Understanding HTML.
- Adding Heading Text.
- Adding Paragraphs, Line Breaks, Bold, and italics.
- Empty Elements and Comments in HTML.
- Ordered Lists, Unordered Lists, Horizontal Rules, and Character Entities.
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Chapter 1: Saving Images for the Web
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Get started in some basic uses of Photoshop for web development. In this tutorial, you will:- Resize an image for web use
- Understand the standard choices of GIF and JPEG
- Save the image for web use
- Understand original files vs. your web files
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Chapter 2: HTML Attributes
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Lessons in this Chapter: - Understand HTML attributes.
- Work with Horizontal rule attributes.
- Work with Ordered and Unordered list attributes.
- Add the font tag and work with its attributes and breifly explore CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) technology.
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Chapter 2: Setting Up Dreamweaver MX
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Lessons in this Chapter:- Create a folder in your web server via FTP with a web browser.
- Learn to properly setup Dreamweaver MX to connect to your server and local directory.
- Create additional folders in your local folder with Dreamweaver and create the initial web page.
- Learn how to download and install MySql Control Center and configure it to communicate with your web site database server.
- Build a table in your database with MySql CC for use in the web site.
- Designate a connection for the MySql database in Dreamweaver MX for site use.
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Chapter 3: Defining Page Layout
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Lessons in this Chapter:- Adding tables for layout control.
- Using Dreamweaver's Image Place Holder to mark areas for future images to go.
- Adding text and links to the page.
- Applying CSS to the site with a seperate file.
- Creating and implementing Server Side Includes for easy site management and future modification.
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Chapter 3: HTML Images and Backgrounds
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Lessons in this Chapter: - Understand how images are applied to web pages.
- Align images on the page in relation to text.
- Apply the ALT attribute and learn more about HTML rules with attributes in general.
- Apply a background image and explore good uses of them.
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Chapter 4: HTML Tables
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Lessons in this Chapter:- Understand what a table is
- Create a small sample table to better understand the logic of tables
- Apply cell padding and cell spacing - some tips and tricks
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Chapter 5: A Member Login Form
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Lessons in this Chapter:- Apply finishing touches to the home page template and then create a login form.
- Apply the Login User Server Behavior for the form.
- Create the member's Home page and apply User Authentication to prevent non-members from seeing it.
- Apply a Recordset Query to the member's home page to show their information.
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Chapter 6: A Member Update Form
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Lessons in this Chapter:- Build a form and apply the users information from the database to it.
- Apply the Update Server Behavior to handle updating the database.
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Chapter 7: A Member Signup Form
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Lessons in this Chapter:- Build a Sign Up page and add a form to it.
- Apply the Insert Record Server Behavior to add the new member to the database.
- Add a Check User Exists Behavior to check the database before inserting a member's information to the database.
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Chapter 8: Administration Pages
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Lessons in this Chapter:- Create the admin home page.
- Apply the Recordset Status and Navigation behaviors for paging multiple records.
- Apply Update and Delete record behaviors.
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Adding a Search Feature
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Once you create a database and connect to it, you may want to provide the ability for your visitors to search through the content of your site. This tutorial covers:- Modifying the database and the web page
- Adding a Search form
- Additional considerations
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Basic way to Send HTML Format Emails
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A very easy way to send attractive HTML emails with NO programming skills required. - This is a basic course showing how to send an HTML Web Page as an email without any additional programming other than the web page you wish to send.
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*Lessons in this Chapter:
*This course is currently in development, so all chapters are not yet posted. Use the contact form to let us know you are interested in its final release. - Understanding what you will need before beginning to create a PHP website in Dreamweaver CS 5.5.
- Adjust the Dreamweaver Development Environment for following along in the course.
- Learn to properly setup Dreamweaver to connect to your server and local directory.
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Lessons in this Chapter: - Create an index.php page and understand what a default document is on the web server.
- Learn how to use the "Preview in Browser" button.
- Understand how Dreamweaver communicates with our server for testing our pages.
- Learn how and what CSS does, and how Dreamweaver helps us manage it. We look at the different techniques of adding CSS to a web page.
- Use Dreamweaver to apply proper CSS Classes and ID's to HTML elements (more specifically the DIV tags) we will use for page layout control.
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Dreamweaver MX: PHP MySql
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This tutorial is a quick look at using Dreamweaver with PHP server side technology and a database. You will learn:- Define a site for PHP MySql and look at the database with MySql CC.
- Bring data into a web page from the database and apply Repeat Region, Recordset Status, and Recordset Navigation for paging content.
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Dynamic Style Sheets with ASP
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This tutorial is intended for developers with some understanding of ASP and CSS with a little knowledge in database connectivity. In this tutorial, you will learn:- Look at a basic page with static styles added to it.
- Create a database in MS Access and connect the web page to it to control the styles on the page.
- Look at how the styles can be administered with a web page.
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Email Campaign System with ASP
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Gain a complete understanding of how to build your very own email campaign system that you can customize. In this tutorial, you will:- Explore what makes up an html email campaign system
- Look deeper into how one is created
- Create an email list builder for your campaign
- Build an HTML template web page to be used for your email
- modify the template to accept dynamic values from a web form before being emailed
- Tie all of it together to use email addresses from your site database to distribute HTML formatted emails to your customers or members
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Sending Email from a Web Page
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This tutorial deals strictly with sending an email from an ASP page. You will:- Understand the HTML form and its INPUT fields.
- Create an ASP page that uses CDONTS.NewMail to send an email based on information received from the form inputs.
- Test the form to see if it sends email and adding additional functionality to the visual page for the end user.
- Add the ability to Attach a file to an email with CDONTS.NewMail and test it.
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User Login with ASP
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Have you ever wondered how to setup a login process on your site that you can control within your web pages? In this tutorial, you will:- Explore the site being used for familiarity.
- Understand the MS Access database being used, and ensure the folder it will be in has the proper privileges.
- Explore the application again, but this time on a code level to better understand what is happening on the server.
- Break down the functions within the complete login process, to include if - then - else statements and redirecting the user based on the outcome.
- Understand the process of adding users to the database through a web form.
- A look at what to expect in the next series; which is Editing and Deleting users.
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Using PHPMyAdmin
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Ever wondered what PHP MyAdmin was, or more importantly, how to use it? This tutorial covers:- Creating a database and table on your host server with PHPMyAdmin
- Creating a PHP/MySQL database connection in Dreamweaver MX
- Creating and running a test page for the connection
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