Dynamic sites harness the power of Web application servers to enhance interactivity, integrate databases and so much more. This edition of Web Pro Resource brings you tips, articles and presentations to create super-charged, lightning fast dynamic sites.

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Automating Master-Detail
Page Production

by Joseph Lowery

In a dynamic Web site, applications often require multiple pages to be effective. A prime example is the master-detail Web application where a search box on one page leads to a master list of results on a second page, each of which, in turn, is linked to a third dynamically generated detail page.

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Interaction Design

by Lisa Lopuck

Interaction design is different from information design. While information design deals with the overall structure of a Web site and the best way to organize content, interaction design is the actual flow that users follow to complete tasks such as signing up for a site’s newsletter, navigating from one page to the next, or buying a number of products and going through the checkout process.

Dreamweaver 8 Recipe: Add Employee

by Joseph Lowery and Eric Ott

The goal of the final page in the Employee Lookup application is to add an employee’s information to the data source. But isn’t that just a basic insert record operation? Although our implementation does use Dreamweaver’s standard Insert Record server behavior, we've also added a bit of intelligence...

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Setting up for dynamic sites

by Mark Fletcher

Before you can begin to build your dynamic pages and applications, you need to make sure your site is set up properly, you've connected to your database and you've created a recordset. Learn how to accomplish all these tasks in these interactive presentations.

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Grouping and nesting
The relative location of interactive components is as strong a clue as any other visual treatment. For example, just grouping a series of similar-looking interface elements together in one graphical unit can...

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Supplying 'No Results' Messages
What if there are no matches to an entered search criteria? Do you really want a "Now showing 0 of 0 records" message on the screen...

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Admin Suite Solution Recipe

Learn how to use SiteAssist and DataAssist together to build a complete administrative site to manage your database tables online. This multimedia presentation covers the process from start to finish.

Memo Fields and Dreamweaver 8.0.2 TechNote

In Dreamweaver 8.0.2, when a dynamic page generated with the ASP JavaScript server model attempts to update an Access memo field or Microsoft SQL server nText field...

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