[spike]

I would like to have some advice from someone who is familiar with Ulta dev.
I've been using Dreamweaver for over a year now, without any prior knowledge of html. I managed to develop a few corporate website for clients(gicom.be).
Now is the time to get a step further. I would like to develop websites with databases. I don't have any knowledge of database management. Is Ultra dev easy to use without prior knowledge? Will i be able to learn to devlop websites with dynamic databases as easy as I learned to devlop s"static" corporate websites with Dreamweaver?
Any advice would be appreciated

[ervier]

Hi Spike,

I have used dw for about two years now, and since one week Ultradev. I find it very easy to use, but...

You should know how to create databases, how to make a connection with the webserver, just to get started. You definitely need a webserver. Depending on what language you use (asp, jsp or cfm) you need a webserver that can handle that language. I use Apache here, with Tomcat for JSP (and don't ask me how to set this up in OSX yet, because this is on a PC).

And although you can do quite a lot without going into the code, for the more complex stuff, you will have to change the code manually. Then there are the sql-statements, but these are only necessary when you use quite complex tables, and complex queries.

Hope this helps a bit.

[Raman]

Originally posted by spike:
<STRONG>I would like to have some advice from someone who is familiar with Ulta dev.
I've been using Dreamweaver for over a year now, without any prior knowledge of html. I managed to develop a few corporate website for clients(gicom.be).
Now is the time to get a step further. I would like to develop websites with databases. I don't have any knowledge of database management. Is Ultra dev easy to use without prior knowledge? Will i be able to learn to devlop websites with dynamic databases as easy as I learned to devlop s"static" corporate websites with Dreamweaver?
Any advice would be appreciated</STRONG>

I wouldn't use nor would i hire someone that didn't know about databases and how to hand code database code to run a business.

Do yourself and your clients a favor and actually LEARN what you're doing. Ultradev doesn't think. It does what you can tell it to do. If you let it write your dabatase code and you have a problem, it will be a huge problem beause it doesn't write code the way us people that know SQL do. Trust me. Having dreamweaver output HTML is not as big a deal as acutal data.

Take whatever server-side scripting language you want and learn it. For instance, if your clients often use ASP or you like ASP tehn learn ASP database stuff including ADO 2.6, SQL Server 7 or 2000, and as alot of questions.

If your clients use UNIX boxes then you might want to learn PHP and MySQL.

Or if your clients are anti-m$ but want enterprise-level goodness then learn JSP and JDBC and some *nix databases like Oracle or DB2.

If you're just fooling around prototyping then go ahead and use Ultradev and M$ Access. Whatever you do, dont' let that be your production code.