Your one stop resource for learning to develop valuable web applications for personal, intranet, and workgroup deployment. Dreamweaver Web Application Cookbook teaches the Dreamweaver user how to develop applications that can make their static pages come to life using either ASP or ColdFusion. After a brief introduction to the fundamentals of developing web applications, the book provides detailed solutions combining real-world deconstruction of techniques with step-by-step implementations. Some of the applications that will be presented in this volume include Guest Book, Photo and MP3 Gallery, User Login, Survey Builder, Presentation Builder, Content Management System, and many more. Each recipe will include at least 4 component parts: application structure, database components, data binding issues, and discussion of issues specific to the application.
Joseph Lowery's books on the Web and Web-building tools are international bestsellers, having sold more than 300,000 copies worldwide in 9 different languages. He is the author of Beyond Dreamweaver and From FrontPage to Dreamweaver from New Riders as well as the Dreamweaver MX 2004 Bible and the Fireworks MX Bible series, both from Wiley Publishing. He also co-authored the Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips series with Angela Buraglia. As a programmer, Joseph contributed two extensions to the latest release of Fireworks and many, many extensions available for Dreamweaver. He is also a consultant and trainer and has presented at Seybold in both Boston and San Francisco, Macromedia conferences in the U.S. and Europe, ThunderLizard's Web World, and Fawcette Publication's WebBuilde. As a partner in Deva Associates, Ltd., Joseph developed the Deva Tools for the Dreamweaver set of navigational extensions. With Edoardo Zubler, Joseph created FlashBang!, Flash navigation for Dreamweaver users.
Eric Ott has more than 10 years of experience as a pioneer in the Web industry. His position at Macromedia as the product manager for Dreamweaver enabled him to define the direction of this highly regarded Web-development platform from its early days. His knowledge and experience in Web design and development have given him strong insight into ways to achieve success on the Web. Eric is currently the President at WebAssist.