Tips for Building A Project

Gareth is a member of Team Macromedia and is always on hand on the Macromedia support forums offering help and advice to Dreamweaver MX users. In this week's tutorial he has collected some of the frequently asked questions and collated them into a tutorial dedicated to making your workflow just that little bit faster - and your life just that little bit easier! Included within the tutorial are the following sections:

Cloaking – Hiding your Private Files
Backing up Your Site Definition
Tips for planning a MySQL Database

Overview

Table of Content:

Tips for Creating the Site File Structure
- Cloaking – Hiding your Private Files
Backing Up Your Site Definition
Tips for planning a MySQL Database
- Avoid Duplicating data stored in the Database..
- Keep your Field Names Descriptive and adhere to a standard..
- Using the MySQL Password() function..
Tips for Creating CSS Style sheets.
- Why use CSS ?
- Plan your Styles before you Start
- Redefine HTML Styles
Making your life easier when Coding..
- The PHP Manual
- Snippets
  - Adding a Snippet
  - Inserting a Snippet
  - Organising your Snippets
  - Backing up your Snippets
Debugging Tips
- Build Debugging Messages into your Code..
- PHP Debugging Commands
  - var_dump()
  - print_r()

Gareth Downes-Powell

Gareth Downes-Powell Gareth has a range of skills, covering many computer and internet related subjects. He is proficient in many different languages including ASP and PHP, and is responsible for the setup and maintenance of both Windows and Linux servers on a daily basis.

In his daily web development work he uses the complete range of Macromedia software, including Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX, Fireworks MX and Director to build a number of websites and applications. Gareth has a close relationship with Macromedia, and as a member of Team Macromedia Dreamweaver, he has worked closely in the development of Dreamweaver, and was a beta tester for Dreamweaver MX.

On a daily basis he provides support for users in the Macromedia forums, answering questions and providing help on a range of different web related subjects. He has also written a number of free and commercial extensions for Dreamweaver MX, to further extend its capabilities using its native JavaScript API’s or C++.

As a web host, Gareth has worked with a range of different servers and operating systems, with the Linux OS as his personal favourite. Most of his development work is done using a combination of Linux, Apache and MySQL and he has written extensively about setting up this type of system, and also running Apache and MySQL under Windows.

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