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5. Connect to a database. (See “Connecting to a database” in Chapter 23,
“Setting Up a Web Application”.)
6. Read the overview at the beginning of each chapter in Using
Dreamweaver to determine whether its topics are of interest to you.
Experienced hand-coders
If you are an experienced hand-coder, this section will point you to sections
of the Dreamweaver documentation that are most appropriate for your
background.
For experienced hand-coders:
1. Begin by reading Chapter 8, “Tutorial: Working with Code” in this
Getting Started with Dreamweaver guide.
2. In Using Dreamweaver (Help > Using Dreamweaver), read Chapter 1,
“Exploring the Workspace” to learn more about the Dreamweaver user
interface.
3. Although much of the material in Chapter 2, “Setting Up a
Dreamweaver Site” and Chapter 4, “Managing Your Files” is probably
familiar to you, skim those chapters to see how these familiar concepts
are implemented in Dreamweaver. Pay particular attention to the
sections on setting up a Dreamweaver site.
4. Read more about coding with Dreamweaver in Chapter 19, “Setting Up
Your Coding Environment,” Chapter 20, “Coding in Dreamweaver,”
Chapter 21, “Optimizing and Debugging Your Code,” and Chapter 22,
“Editing Code in Design View”.
5. Read the overview at the beginning of each chapter in Using
Dreamweaver to determine whether its topics are of interest to you.
Web application developers
If you are a web application developer, this section will point you to
sections of the Dreamweaver documentation that are most appropriate for
your background. There are two different approaches, depending on
whether you’ve used Dreamweaver before.
