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Cristian Ivascu

Cristian Ivascu

InterAKT Online

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Getting Started
  3. Create the Site Using Starter Pages
  4. Create the Database Connection
  5. Display the Latest Travel Destination
  6. Editing Travel Destinations
  7. Replace a Standard Textarea with a Rich Text Editor
  8. Edit your First Travel Destination
Created:
3 April 2006
User Level:
Beginner
Products:
Dreamweaver

Creating a Travel Agency Website Using Dreamweaver and KTML

Note: This article was written for KTML, which is no longer available. We are keeping this article public for customers who purchased KTML from InterAKT before is was discontinued.

When maintaining a website for a travel agency with hundreds of travel destination offers, you most often rely on a webmaster or web developer to edit content in HTML and then upload it using an FTP connection. Wouldn't it be nice to allow any of the company's employees edit the site content in a browser (in a secure and visual manner)? Well, it can be done, and it will allow you to enable any Microsoft Word savvy user to edit the website content, without learning HTML or anything.

In this article, I will walk you through creating a website for a fictional travel agency that sells vacations to the Caribbean, from designing and setting up the database, to creating the front-end, and editing travel destinations. You will have the website up fast, with minimum effort and coding, using Dreamweaver's integrated server features and Kollection suite of extensions from InterAKT.

Requirements

To complete this tutorial you will need to install the following software and files:

Dreamweaver 8

Third-Party Software

  • Kollection
  • Server Operating system: Apple Mac OS X 10.2 +, Microsoft Windows XP or later, or Linux.
  • Web server: Apache 1.3.x or Microsoft IIS
  • Application server: PHP version 4.3.0 or later (recommended version: PHP 5)
  • Database server: MySQL version 3.x or higher

Note: You can build this application on any of the supported server models—PHP_MySQL, ColdFusion, ASP VBScript, PHP_ADODB. The steps are similar, however, for this article, I used PHP 5 and MySQL as the development framework.

Sample files:

  • travel_agency.zip (ZIP, 436K) The sample files contain the completed web application and the database script.

Prerequisite Knowledge

  • Familiarity with the Dreamweaver workspace and interface.
  • Grasp of basic web application development concepts (no programming skills required).
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About the author

Cristian Ivascu is a technical writer with InterAKT Online, Adobe partner and provider of Dreamweaver extensions. He is a strong supporter of open-source software and a fan of Japanese culture and rock music.