Macintose Course Overview

Dreamweaver MX: Level 3 is a hands-on instruction book that will introduce you to the basics of creating database-driven Web sites with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX.

Prerequisites:

To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following course or have equivalent knowledge:

• Dreamweaver MX: Level 1
• Dreamweaver MX: Level 2
• HTML: Level 1
• Access Level 1

After completing this course, students will be able to create database-driven Web sites using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX.

Target Student:

This course is designed for Web developers and others who need to create and manage data-driven Web sites.

What's Next:

This is the final course in this series.

Delivery Method:

Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Course duration:

1 Day.

Hardware/Software Requirements:

You will need:

• A Power Mac G3 or better.
• Mac OS 9.1 or higher, or Mac OS X 10.1 or higher.
• Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer 4.0 or greater.
• At least 96 MB of available RAM (128 MB Recommended).
• At least 275 MB available disk space for software installation, and an additional 10 MB for the course data files.
• A 256 color monitor capable of 800 x 600 resolution (1024 x 768, millions of colors recommended).
• A CD-ROM drive.
• Macromedia Dreamweaver MX.
• A PC computer running Windows NT or Windows 2000. NOTE: if there are fewer than 10 students in the class, then you can use Windows XP with Internet Information Services.
• Microsoft Internet Information Server installed on the PC.
• Microsoft Access 97, 2000, or XP, or recent ODBC drivers for Access databases installed on the PC. The latest drivers can be obtained from Microsoft by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/dataand downloading the MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components) package.
• Network connection between the PC computer and the Macintosh(es).

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Determine what server technology to use for a database-driven site, and set up a database-driven site in Dreamweaver.
• Create recordsets, and display fields and images on the page.
• Create a master list of items that links to a detail page, and create a page to display the results of a search form.
• Link form elements to recordsets.
• Create pages to insert, update, and delete records.