Hi,

I have created by first ever website and ut is now out there on the internet!! I'm a proud man today!! <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

Now, I want to improve my site even more!! I want to add a message board to my site - is there any easy way for me to do this? I just want something simple.

Also, on a separate note, when I load up my page - baileytigers.50megs.com - the information on the information bar in the browser shows "Untitled document" - Can I change this to show the name of thr website? and if so, how do I do it?

Thanks,

Ronan.

1. To place something in place of untitled document you will see in dreamweaver when the page is open you have a text box at the top of the page called title. Add the title you want here as by default it shows untitled document.

Alternatively if you look at the code just under the &lt;head&gt; tag you will see &lt;title&gt;untitled document&lt;/title&gt; and you can make the same amendment here.

For you message board, you have two choices. Either create a dynamic site with the message information being entered into a database table or you can just type on the page an upload each time.

For more information on creating a database driven site I suggest following the tutorials for building a dynamic site that come with dreamweaver. The tutorials are really good and can be found under the help menu option in dreamweaver. Then post back here if you have problems along the way.



Regards

Vince Baker
<strong>DMX Zone Manager</strong>

[VBScript | ASP | HTML | CSS | SQL | Oracle | AS400 | ERP Logic | Hosting]

Hey,

Thanks for your reply.

I've named all my pages - no problem there.

I'm having problems with the guestbook though. I've downloaded mysql server as advised by the tutorial in Dreamweaver. I know I have to connect do a database but I'm not 100% sure about a few things:

1) Do I need to create the mysql database before trying to connect via dreamweaver?
2) When setting up the MySQL connection, what is the connection name and the MySQL server?

That's as far as I got!! Sorry for my ignorance but this is my first time trying this and I'm trying to learn!!

Thanks,

Ronan.

1. You must create a database first
2. You can create a DSN (Data Source Name through ODBC connection) and this will be the connection name that dreamweaver uses to talk to the database.
3. To do this, on the server (or your local machine if you are testing locally) go to control panel - admin tools (or just admin tools if on windows server) and open the Data Sources (ODBC) option.
4. Add a new odbc connection and specify the driver for mysql and then enter all relevant connection details (username password etc)
5. Then, when you build the connection in dreamweaver you can browse for the name of the connection you just made and voila.

Regards

Vince Baker
<strong>DMX Zone Manager</strong>

[VBScript | ASP | HTML | CSS | SQL | Oracle | AS400 | ERP Logic | Hosting]