Free! - Mini-review and competition of ASP for Dreamweaver 8

Dreamweaver 8 takes a lot of the hard work out of performing tasks such as integrating a database into your website, but it can't do everything. That's why this book not only shows you how to use all of Dreamweaver's functions, but also shows you how the underlying code functions, so you can then work around Dreamweaver's shortcomings. There's no attempt to turn you into a code guru, but you'll come away with sufficient knowledge of basic ASP to have the confidence to dive into the Dreamweaver code and tweak it to your own requirements. The emphasis is exclusively on ASP, so you don't waste any time on information that's not relevant to what you want to do.

Omar and Rob first take you through the latest 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.

In this book, you'll learn:

• How to install and configure a testing environment using ASP, IIS, Dreamweaver 8, and SQL Server or Access
• The fundamentals of the ASP language and good database design
• How to use all the Dreamweaver 8 ASP server behaviors
• The ins and outs of exchanging data between your users and your database using dynamic web forms
• How to build complete ASP web applications, including a photo gallery and a blog

Who is this book for?

This book is written for beginners and intermediate users. The book starts with an explanation about how to create Dynamic sites with Dreamweaver wherafter it moves on to the basics of ASP, Databases and Froms. Intermediate users can learn a lot from the real wordl applications such as a blog and photo album application.

Conclusion

If you are a beginner the book offers you valuable information on how to learn ASP and Dreamweaver, but the most valuebale information in the book revolves on the the real-world from-the-ground-up tutorials. These tutorials are also very usefull for intermediate users. So if you are (fairly) new to Dreamweaver and ASP and you want to start building applications after a short introduction, you should really get this book.

Competition

The friendly people of Friends of ED are giving away 5 books. All you need to do, to enter the competition is; download the extract (press read more and then download sample PDF on your right)and answer the following question:

• In the tutorial of the sample an asp page onews_admin_archives.asp is created, what is the function of this page?

Send your answer to this e-mail address, before Thursday the 25th of May 2006. Don't forget to include your post address and phone number (required for international shipping) in the e-mail.

Good Luck!