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Top Secret Project

This tutorial teaches you how to use Dreamweaver to create a Web site that is Top Secret. The site is called Top Secret because its purpose is to provide access only to users whom you choose to provide with user names and passwords.

Top Secret Database

Your first task is to create a database that contains the names and passwords of the users who are permitted access to your site. You store then in a table called Users. This lesson shows you how.

Displaying a Data Table

Displaying a data table on a Web page is a task frequently used in data driven Web design. This lesson steps you through the process. The first time you work through this lesson, create a page that displays the top secret users from the Users table of the TopSecret database you created in the previous lesson.

Logging Users In

Authentication is the process of determining whether a user should be permitted or denied access to a resource such as a Web site. On the Internet, Web sites that are not publicly accessible require users to log in to gain access. In this lesson, you will use the Dreamweaver login server behavior to create a login process for the Top Secret site. Depending on how many Top Secret lessons you have completed previously, this lesson may repeat some steps you have done before. If so, consider the repetition to be a refresher of that previous material.

Creating Top Secret Pages

This exercise has you create screens that will deny access to unauthorized users. Work through this exercise to learn how to populate the site with top secret pages.