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... (more)
Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 is a major breakthrough for XML development, just as
Dreamweaver MX 2004 was for CSS. The development team behind this release
decided to offer people the entry-point support they needed to tackle XML and
XSL-based web projects. The approach Dreamweaver 8 takes to XML and XSL is no
surprise:
Visual XSL transformations using drag and drop from the Bindings panel. ... (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... (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 f... (more)
Marius Zaharia is the documentation manager at InterAKT Online, a developer of professional tools for dynamic web development. When he's not writing articles and tutorials to guide web developers, he enjoys learning new things and exploring new technologies. His interests range from web development to politics and avantgarde electronic music.
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