Instant Web Publishing with Filemaker and Dreamweaver

I have developed a great technique for web publishing using Filemaker and Dreamweaver. Imagine creating your content in a database, add a graphic to the database you've created or downloaded from the web to the database and then simply push a button in Filemaker which does it all.

1. create a new record in the database, enter a Title, Description, graphic name, and URL/web address into 4 separate fields
2. import the graphic into the database and provide the name for the graphic
3. push the export button which
   1. creates a xml file that has all the data meddled by the html page
   2. the file is written to disk locally on your hard drive
   3. next the xml data is uploaded to your web server via ftp directly from Filemaker
   4. the new graphic you created is written to disk locally on your hard drive and gets uploaded at the same time
4. now when you page is loaded the HTML uses a spry data set to read the newly updated xml and related graphics into the page
5. result: push button publishing

Examples: News Page, Iphone Apps (as an added bonus the iphone page detects if you have a Iphone or Ipod Touch the page is formatted for the device.

As shown with the examples the presentation can vary with the same data set, for example:

On the left the data is arranged in a narrow column that fits the iphone or Touch when the page is loaded. Above the same data is presented in a compact form: click on the title and the corresponding text and graphic is shown on the right. There is a great range of presentation available depending on the data. The News page (click here) is another example of a list presentation. All you need is a website and Filemaker with the proper plugin installed, a little programming and everything else is fully automated. Next: Spry Data Sets

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