ASP News Section, Dreamweaver Database Articles

I used Macromedia Dreamweaver for all the connections and strings. After DW did all the hard work, I used UltraEdit to edit the final pages that display my content. Dreamweaver has a nice create master-detail application feature that writes all the code for displaying a repeating region grid with a go to related detail page link for a defined field in your grid. All you have to do is define your database connection, define your recordset, and then custimize the final two pages that get generated.

Now I'm sure it has been done before, but I think I'll do a Flash based video tutorial on how to setup a few of the web applications that don't require a seasoned coder to understand. The tutorial will be a four part series.

  1. How to Connect to a DSN-less Access Database.
  2. How to Define, Sort by Date, and use a Recordset.
  3. Next, How to Create the Master Detail Pages.
  4. And I'll wrap it up by Showing how to Customize the Generated pages to do a little more.

This little tutorial will be based on using basic ASP 3.0 (active server pages) with Dreamweaver MX.

There are tons of benefits to using ASP as a starting point for creating dynamic websites. For starters it's free to learn an use on Microsoft's PWS (personal web server) that's on your windows 98 CD. That's how I started out with my first scripts. If you plan on professional hosting, most companies use MS's IIS 5.0 that shipped with Windows 2000 Servers or the new IIS 6.0 that has been released with the new Windows 2003 Server. You don't have to purchase the server to try the new IIS 6.0, you can get a free evaluation copy here. If you plan on doing some serious web scripting you should buy a copy of it though as it supports the new ASP.net web architecture that everyone is migrating to.

I don't cover .NET here because I am just starting with the whole .NET concept, but I must warn you, it is VERY powerful for dynamic content.


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