Macromedia® Dreamweaver® 8 with ASP, Coldfusion® and PHP: Training from the Source

Chapter 13. Managing Content with Forms

A content management system, as its name suggests, is an interface that facilitates the maintenance of content, including the addition of new content, the modification of existing content, and the removal of unwanted content. In this and the next two lessons, you will make steps toward building a content management system (CMS) for the Newland Tours site. You won’t build a fully comprehensive CMS, which is an ambitious and often redundant task, making it of limited value in this book. But you will build enough of it to get a sense of how they work, and the know-how to start building your own.

By inserting some HTML as the default text in a text area, you can provide users a template for creating formatted ...