Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 2: ...

Building the Login Page
The layout of the login page is already created. You only have to apply the Login Form Wizard:

Open the login. …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 2: ...

Creating the Logout Link
Although an automatic logout takes place when the session expires or the browser window is closed, you must ad …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 2: ...

Hiding Content with Conditional Regions
To control what links are displayed when users are logged in and what to display when they are …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 3: ...

In Part 2 of this tutorial, we taught you how to add user authentication to the forum. In this part, you will learn how to build the pa …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 3: ...

Creating the Link for Posting Messages
First, create the link to the page for posting messages. Follow these steps:

Open the view_mess …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 3: ...

Creating the Form That Enables Users to Post Messages
To allow users to post a message, you need to create an insert form that takes us …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 3: ...

Associating Messages to a Thread
At this point you can add messages in any topic you want by logging in and clicking the Post message l …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 4: ...

In Part 3 of this tutorial, you learned how to create a form that enables users to post messages to the forum. The insert form has been …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 4: ...

Creating the Link to the Reply Form
The page used for replying to messages is called reply_message.php. Users can access it from the vi …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 4: ...

Building the Reply Form
To build the reply form, follow these steps:

Open the reply_message.php page in Dreamweaver. The page layout i …

Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 4: ...

Sending Reply Notifications by E-mail
In this section, you will enhance your forum by allowing users to receive an e-mail when a reply …

An Overview of CSS in Dreamweaver MX 2004 R ...

I have watched web designers adopt Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) with interest. While some designers have gleefully adopted CSS as a mus …

An Overview of CSS in Dreamweaver MX 2004 R ...

User Interface (UI) Changes
The most obvious change to the way Dreamweaver supports CSS is in its implementation of CSS within the inte …

An Overview of CSS in Dreamweaver MX 2004 R ...

Property Inspector
Dreamweaver MX introduced the concept of applying custom styles to a selected text object with the text Property ins …

An Overview of CSS in Dreamweaver MX 2004 R ...

Page Properties Dialog Box
The Page Properties dialog box may look similar to the dialog box in previous versions, but it acts very dif …

An Overview of CSS in Dreamweaver MX 2004 R ...

CSS Styles Panel
The CSS Styles panel should still be very familiar to developers. The changes are slight. Instead of the Apply Styles …

An Overview of CSS in Dreamweaver MX 2004 R ...

Tag Inspector (with Relevant CSS Panel)
The Tag Inspector has seen a significant overhaul, and this may be your new favorite place. The …

An Overview of CSS in Dreamweaver MX 2004 R ...

CSS Properties Panel
The CSS Properties panel appears if you double-click a selector or a style attribute in the Relevant CSS panel. I …

An Overview of CSS in Dreamweaver MX 2004 R ...

Workflow Recommendations
Experienced CSS developers will quickly adjust to the changes in the interface, because they are quite intuiti …

An Overview of CSS in Dreamweaver MX 2004 R ...

Quickly Generate Simple Styles and Build Upon Them
This may be how developers accidentally use Dreamweaver MX 2004 at first. Although t …