Help the newbie

I'm so new to Dreamweaver. I can only create static webpages
but now I really have to create a page with dynamic contents (like
get live data from a db), lots of layer manipulation(like layers
changing sizes, etc) and javascript. Any recommendations on books
that I should read to learn really fast? Any links?
Please help. Thanks.

newbiejane wrote:
> I'm so new Dreamweaver. I can only create static
webpages but now I really have
> to create a page with dynamic contents (like get live
data from a db), lots of
> layer manipulation(like layers changing sizes, etc) and
javascript. Any
> recommendations on books that I should read to learn
really fast? Any links?
>
> Please help. Thanks.
>
>
>
If you need to do it soon, the best advice anyone can give
you is to
hire someone already proficient in these things (not sure
what you mean
by "layer manipulation," though).
Otherwise, you need to get a book, take a class, or sign up
for online
training videos, depending on your learning style, and
depending on
what your host supports, and learn PHP, ASP, or CF (there are
others,
these seem to be the most commonly mentioned these days). It
also would
help to learn some theory about constructing databases
efficiently.
I am only a beginner myself, and if I needed something like
that in a
hurry I would probably try to hire a PHP person I know from
this ng
(Steve Fleischer, Gary White, there are quite a few who
answer PHP
questions frequently here) to do it for me.
In the long run, I have bought and started to study these two
books:
Database Design for Mere Mortals (don't remember author
offhand but you
can find in any online bookstore) and
PHP for Dreamweaver 8 by David Powers (who also frequents
these and
other newsgroups).
Still, unless you can devote hours a day to this, it takes
time to
learn, and you can mess up a lot more much more quickly using
dynamic
pages than you can with a simple html page.
Another option, depending on your needs, would be to delve
into an
existing content management system such as Joomla, Website
Baker, etc.,
but from what I've observed with others' experience, these
can be more
or less difficult to customize depending on your level of
expertise and
the adequacy of the documentation.
Bonnie in California
kroko at
sbcglobal dot net
http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites.woa

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1. Please help yourself by using a subject line that is
descriptive of your
question/issue. Can you imagine how many posts there are that
have exactly
this subject? Later when you want to find this thread, you
will be deep in
the mud of other newbie posts.
2. When you post a question about problems with your layout,
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> I've created a photo gallery in Flash CS3 that contains
2 UI Loaders (one
> for a
> graphic title for the image, and one for the image
itself) and have tested
> it
> and it works fine. I even published the file as an
independent html file
> and it
> seems to work fine when tested in the browser too. My
problem is that when
> I
> place the .swf into my html page in dreamweaver and test
it, the file
> shows up,
> but the loader info doesn't work. The images don't load.
>
> Here is the code I have set up in Dreamweaver -
>
> Within the head, I have this:
>
> <script src="../Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js"
> type="text/javascript"></script>
>
> Within the body, I have this set up for where the swf
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> to
> be:
>
> <div id="content_main">
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
> Can anyone help? Thanks so much. I appreciate any help I
can get.
>

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of OOP in C++ like 2 years back but since then i
did'nt took any of programming language courses. I
have experience in MSaccess and MYsql. i did my
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Lottery as a Database Analyst. At that time i
realized what a Corporate Enviorment looks like.
Trust me it was a formal interview and i passed it
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