Dreamweaver
Dreamweaver is the preferred HTML design tool of a lot of web designers and developers, it produces good clean accessible HTML allowing you to go into and tweak the code with ease.. Dreamweaver also allows you to develop serverside code including ASP, it is not recommended for developing .net code, for this we reccomend prefer Visual Studio.
Databases
- MSSQL is the best option for a website that will want to grow in the future
- Access will handle most websites comfortably, but is not future proofed.
- Access databases should be kept in the DB above the root (not within the WWW folder)
- DSN-less connections should be used.
- PHP with MS SQL or Access is not presently presently well supported in Dreamweaver.
Site settings for Dreamweaver:
Good Resources for Dreamweaver
- eCommerce - shopping carts & Dreamweaver extensions we know work with our hosting.
- Macromedia Resources - www.macromedia.com/devnet
Suggested database Connection Strings:
- SQL
"Provider=SQLOLEDB;Data Source=IPaddress;Initial Catalog=DatabaseName;User Id=Username;Password=YourPassword" - Access
"Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ=D:\Domains\YourDomain.co.uk\db\DatabaseFile.mdb"