Weekly Recap for January 20
Lecture Notes
- Introductions
- Course overview
- Logistics
- Setting up a SRJC webserver
- Setting up a Dreamweaver Site
- Setting up a MySQL database
- A first look at php
Assignments | Due January 30, 2011
- Read Chapters 1 & 2 of Training from the Source
- Update to Dreamweaver CS5 version 11.0.3 for the HTML5 features
- Create a Dreamweaver Site Definition that includes a PHP/MySQL Testing Server, export the definition to a STE file and email that file to me as an attachment.
- In DW, go to File -> New and create a new php file with the HTML5 2 or 3 column automatic layout and an external style sheet. Save the file with the name index.php. (this tutorial by David Powers explores the new HTML5 features in more detail )
- Design and add content to index.php in Dreamweaver CS5 using HTML/CSS. Include a photograph of yourself and a paragraph or two about yourself and your thoughts and experiences in web design. Add a list titled Objectives with at least three specific skills that you hope to master in the class. Send me an email with the URL of this page.
This is great. I like having class information in one place.
Note the update to this post – the assignments are due Sunday, January 30
Jay,
Do you want our .STE file complete with login, passwords, etc. or without?
Yes, please use the top choice to save your login and password when you export the Site Definition. It will allow me log in to your server account, but it obscures the password so I can’t see it.
For some reason, I’m unable to install the updates for the HTML5 templates you’re looking to use. I am able to select HTML5 as the doctype, but no templates. Any suggestions?
I’m not sure why you’re having problems. There is some discussion about installing the 11.0.3 updater on Adobe’s support forum. It is not a problem if you create your page in another template for now.
I am unable to connect to the student server – NEED HELP!
Here is the following information that I am using to connect
Server Name: SRJC Remote Server
Connect Using: FTP
FTP address: student.santarosa.edu Port: 21
User name: dhauser
Password: xxxxxxx
Root Direectory: /home/WWW_pages/dhauser/AdvancedDW/
Web URL: http://student.santarosa.edu/~dhauser/AdvancedDW/
What am I doing wrong?!!
I figured it out – for whatever reason my password was not entering properly, even though I used the shift key to capitalize the first two letters and then entered the proper SSN; I copied and pasted my password and also I changed the root directory to public_html. That made the difference! The site is now connected. Whew!
I misplaced the syllabus and I’m not sure if I am emailing homework to the correct email address. Is the ‘jperetz@santarosa.edu’ the correct place to send the homework file (.ste)?
Yes, Deb I received your email. My email link is always at the top right of every blog page. The original syllabus with the weekly schedule is at http://www.santarosa.edu/~jperetz/dreamweaver/
Deb,
That’s where I sent mine and it worked.
Mark
David,
I clicked the link to your site. It looks great to me. Were you able to get signed on to the server after all? I can’t see anything either.
Mark Alarie
Stepping back a couple weeks,
This is not a huge problem but, I can’t get the time.php example from chapter One to work and I have no idea why
After uploading, the page in the browser simply says:
The time in London is
All the other examples do far have done just fine.
I think that this is one of those cases where the PHP version on our server doesn’t support some of the functions in the example. I got it to work by simplifying the code quite a bit. This code only works if it is run on a server in PDT.
The time in London is < ?php echo gmdate("F j, Y, g:i a") ?>
In Los Angeles, it's < ?php echo date("F j, Y, g:i a") ?>
Yep! I figured something like that, but didn’t know enough to fix it.
Thanks.