In this course from expert developer and Adobe Certified Trainer Candyce Mairs, you’ll learn how to build a dynamic, database-driven website using the many features built into Dreamweaver CS5.5. Candyce covers the complete installation and setup of a testing environment for dynamic website development including web servers, application servers, server-side languages, and the appropriate databases for each type of server. You’ll learn how to display database data using Dreamweaver features such as dynamic tables, recordset paging, and recordset navigation; use master-detail page sets to create a data drill-down interface; create database queries using the Recordset Builder and a form to search the database using SQL; and much more. By the time you’re finished, you will have built a complete dynamic, data-driven website.

Joomla! started as a fork from Mambo in 2005, when many of the original developers of the Mambo CMS moved to working on Joomla! It has rapidly grown in popularity and, according to its own description, is a "Cutting Edge Content Management System and one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management systems in the world. It is used world-wide for anything from simple homepages to complicated corporate websites. It is easy to install, easy to manage and very reliable."

Ruby on Rails is fast displacing PHP, ASP, and J2EE as the development framework of choice for discriminating programmers, thanks to its elegant design and emphasis on practical results. RailsSpace teaches you to build large-scale projects with Rails by developing a real-world application: a social networking website like MySpace, Facebook, or Friendster.



Joomla! started as a fork from Mambo in 2005, when many of the original developers of the Mambo CMS moved to working on Joomla! It has rapidly grown in popularity and, according to its own description, is a "Cutting Edge Content Management System and one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management systems in the world. It is used world-wide for anything from simple homepages to complicated corporate websites. It is easy to install, easy to manage and very reliable."