Forums (message boards) are a great way to share ideas, debate on current
issues, or offer technical assistance to your clients. A forum can really
help you build up a community around your website, increase traffic, and
improve communication with your clients. Although you can find a wealth of
free forum applications out there, which you can install and customize for
your needs, this article teaches you how to build your own forum from scratch
to make it fit your specific requirements. (You can view this article in its
original www.macromedia.com/devnet.)
We will walk you from designing and setting up your database to building a
basic front end, adding user authentication, allowing subscription to message
threads, and sending topic reply notifications by e-mail. You can have a
fully functional forum in no time, with minimum effort and coding.
Planning the Forum
In ... (more)
In Part 1 of this tutorial, we taught you how to pull information from a
database in order to set up a forum front end and how to style it with CSS.
In this article, you will see how easy it is to build a user authentication
system for your forum.
Setting Up User Authentication
In the following sections of this tutorial, you will use ImpAKT to build a
user authentication system for your forum. You need authentication to prevent
pranksters from posting a load of garbage to your forum and getting away with
it. If users want to post messages to the forum, they must register an
acco... (more)
The major breakthrough in Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 is visual authoring with
XML data. You can now perform both client-side and server-side XSL
transformations in a snap. I covered XML syntax in one of my previous
articles. I also presented the XSL syntax and covered the differences between
a server-side and a client-side transformation in my article, XSL Overview.
Finally, in the article, Consuming a Remote RSS Feed with Dreamweaver 8, I
show you how to consume a remote feed in your site, using the XSL
Transformation server behavior in Dreamweaver 8.
This article explains how to... (more)
In this article you'll learn how to create a basic content management system
using Adobe Dreamweaver 8 and KTML 4 Lite edition. You can use this system to
manage content for an online newspaper, a company presentation Web site, or a
site with articles. At the end of this article users of the Content
Management System will be able to:
See the list of articles that exist in the site database - with title,
description, and an Edit link next to each item Edit the articles using KTML
Lite, a free online HTML editor. Using KTML Lite, the text boxes or text
areas used to edit content c... (more)
In this article you'll learn how to create a basic content management system
that stores articles in a database using Microsoft's Visual Web Developer
Express Edition (or Microsoft Visual Studio) and KTML 4 Lite edition.
At the end of this article users of the Content Management System will be
able to:
See the list of articles that exist in the site database with the title and
short description. Display the full article. Edit or add articles using the
free online HTML editor KTML Lite that is easy to learn and use just like
Microsoft Word. Using KTML Lite the text boxes or text a... (more)
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