Dreamweaver Extra
Dreamweaver Extra is for people with some experience of the editor.
- CSS in detail as an aid to giving your site some style
and for layout of the page without using clunky tables or frames
- Advanced
use of graphics and interactive
images for illustration and page layout.
- Interactivity and dynamic pages, with a section on forms and another on serverside processing.
Interactive databases
Some websites make extensive use of databases
This is to store information about their
products/services/customers.
Essential Features for an Online Database
- Display and search records - so any user can see the records and search the database for items.
- Retail databases are
interactive so that:
- administrator can provide new content to a database and upload the details
- content can be retrieved dynamically in response to a user's request/search.
- Update - the stock/records can be dynamically updated
- customers can see product content in the database and send requests for orders to the firm/organisation
- Blogs/forums allow users to contribute dynamically to content
Scripting Clientside or Serverside?
Web pages use scripts to carry out tasks for the user.
This processing can
be done in two ways
Clientside means that the webmaster install the processing
scripts in their own pages. Javascripts and Java applets are examples
Serverside means that webserver does all the processing online.
PHP/ASP/JSP are serverside processing techniques