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Setting Dreamweaver Preferences for Forward Compatibility
Dreamweaver can't do everything for you - but takes care of much of the leg-work in moving to XHTML. Here's a definitive list of the options you can set to make your code future-proof. Once you have decided that you'd rather produce pages that will be forward compatible, rather than code like it's 1998, you can just set your preferences and GO! Read MoreAdvanced search
This tutorial covers creating an advanced search form. In building the form up from one where the criteria covers a single field in the database to one where we can search for specific values within any or all of the fields in our database, we'll cover creating recordsets, adding parameters to them and modifying the recordset behavior code in Code View to provide both AND and OR queries to our recordset.
Read MoreScripting Radio Buttons without tears
Scripting Radio buttons is one of the tasks that can easily have you weeping into your mouse-mat or hurling your computer through the window. Part 4 of the Real-world JavaScript series, this stand-alone tutorial can save you a fortune in glazier bills and replacement mats by showing you how to save your sanity and write scripts that are usable to your site’s visitors. Read MorePHP Classes: Inheritance and Serialize
In this article, we look at the concept of inheritance, and see how you can create a class which extends another class. This is an excellent way of making your code more readable, more modular, easier to debug and quicker to develop.We then look at how the data from a class can easily be stored, so an exact copy of the class complete with all its data can be reconstructed at a later date. Read More
ASP to ASP.NET: The mindset change
Chris Ullman has vast experience of ASP and ASP.NET and is equally at home using either technology. In this series of articles, he explores not only the coding differences involved in migrating from ASP to ASP.NET, but the changes in mindset necessary to take maximum advantage from the new technology Read MoreIdea to Implementation: Wireframing and Prototyping
In this article following a professional web designer through from idea to implementation, Matt Machell shows how to produce a Wireframe and a prototype of the Site before firing up Dreamweaver. Extra time spent now, doodling the site on the back of an envelope, transferring into Fireworks, then greeking the prototype ensures the design is consistent, gets customer approval before the Site-build and saves considerable time later on. Read MoreMySQL Search
In this article we're going to be taking a look at how we can create a form to search for and filter records in our database. We'll cover what you need to know from populating a dropdown box with data from your database to filtering out just the info that you need. We'll look at some more advanced SQL and how we can let the user page through the results. Read MoreReal-world JavaScript: Scripting Checkboxes
What is a checkbox really used for, and how can you change it with a JavaScript? Is it even possible? It certainly is, and in this article you'll find out how to manipulate checkboxes in a form using the mysterious "type" property. Create a toggle switch and turn on and off mass checkboxes with a flick of the wrist! Amazing! Tom continues showing you how to make fully-functional forms, and shows how to make sure that they are Accessible under 508 and disability discrimination legislation - and it's all easier than you think!
This self-contained article will contain the first of many JavaScripts that will be part of a library of scripts you can keep free of charge for your own use.
Read MoreTables to CSS
This article is for those people who are comfortable using Dreamweaver to lay out sites using tables, but would like to discover more about how to use CSS for more than just basic text styling. We will take a tables-based layout that includes several of the design tricks common when creating sites using tables for layout, and look at how we can use CSS to make a tables based layout cleaner, leaner and more accessible but without making that huge leap into total CSS layout. This is a perfect solution for those legacy sites that you don't have time to fully redesign but that need to be improved in terms of their accessibility, or as an easy introduction to CSS in Dreamweaver.
Read MoreCreating the Data Repository
In the first article we took a look at the issues that required investigation prior to upsizing your existing database solution to Microsoft’s premium database, SQL Server 2000.
Within this article we will take a look at installing SQL Server 2000 locally, creating a database andatable in preparation to working with the data within Dreamweaver. We look at the three most common tools that you, as a developer, will be using. Then we look at creating a database within SQL Server, and the differences between Access and SQL Server in this area. We take a look at a database and its associated transaction log, discuss how to set the file sizes to allow for normal growth, and finally we create a table ready for use to use within our Dreamweaver application.
Read MoreHTML or XHTML: Which should I use?
Dreamweaver MX has great XHTML support. So how do you choose between HTML or XHTML for a project, and why? This article will help you know why you might want to consider XHTML, when to stick to HTML, and how to deal with management, client, and workflow concerns related to making the language choice.
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