You'll learn to build a master page to let employees view summaries of the company's press releases and a detail page to display the full text of a press release of the user's choosing. The manual will show you how to add recordsets, and write simple SQL statements. Another large section of the manual covers adding dynamic content-how to make text, images and objects dynamic. For example, you can replace existing text with dynamic text, or you can place dynamic text at a given insertion point on the page. Dynamic text adopts any text formatting applied to the existing text or to the insertion point.
Dynamic images can keep the same general layout on the page but have an image that changes.
There is a section for editing and debugging your pages. What I found most useful was the server errors that would come up when I made a mistake. If it wasn't self-explanatory I copy the error number and go to Macromedia support, put it in the search box and almost always discover the problem. I used a simple Access database and ASP although JSP and ColdFusion are both supported. I wanted to set up a Register page, a login page and a page that inserted about 30 items into a database.