Tutorial: Developing a Web Application

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 to quickly begin developing dynamic database-driven web applications, allowing you to present information retrieved from a database on your web pages.

You’ll display data on web pages for the Cafe Townsend site, using a sample database provided with Dreamweaver. You’ll also use Dreamweaver to create a record-insertion form to let visitors leave comments.

In this tutorial, you will complete the following tasks:

Before you begin

Review your task

Open a document to work in

Define a recordset

Display the database records

Add dynamic fields to the table

Set a repeated region

View your page

Create a record insert form

Copy files to the server

Further reading