Datasheet

Frames have a bad rep, and there are some compelling reasons why they’re
not used much anymore. But frames still have their place on the Web, so I’ve
included a chapter on the basics of using Dreamweaver’s frame features to
create pages like the one in Figure 1-5 that display multiple Web pages in one
browser window.
Creating dynamic Web sites
When you use Dreamweaver’s most advanced features, you can create Web
sites (like the one shown in Figures 1-6 and 1-7) which connect to a database
and display content dynamically on a Web page.
What’s happening behind the scenes of a site like the one at www.PowerYoga.
com gets complicated fast, but one of the advantages of using this kind of
technology is that you can create a Web page like the one in Figure 1-7 and
make it easy for anyone to enter data, like the details for a new event, even
if they don’t know how to use Dreamweaver. If you’ve used Dreamweaver’s
programming features, such as PHP or ASP, to set up a system that saves that
data into a database automatically, you can then serve the contents of the
form back to the live site on a page like the one shown in Figure 1-6, which
includes a long list of events and retreats.
Figure 1-5:
Frames
enable you
to display
multiple
Web pages
in one
browser
window.
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