- Create a page (File > New >
Blank Page), and lay out your login page using the Dreamweaver design
tools.
- Add an HTML form by placing the insertion point where
you want the form to appear and choosing Form from the Insert menu.
An empty form is created on the page. You may have to enable
Invisible Elements (View > Visual Aids >
Invisible Elements) to see the form’s boundaries, which are represented
by thin red lines.
- Name the HTML form by clicking the <form> tag
at the bottom of the Document window to select the form, opening
the Property inspector (Window > Properties), and entering
a name in the Form Name box.
You don’t have to specify an action or method attribute
for the form to tell it where and how to send the record data when
the user clicks the Submit button. The Log In User server behavior
sets these attributes for you.
- Add a user name and a password text field (Insert >
Form > Text Field) to the form.
Add labels (either as text or images) beside each text
field, and line up the text fields by placing them inside an HTML
table and setting the table’s border attribute
to 0.
- Add a Submit button to the form (Insert >
Form > Button).
You can change the label of the Submit button by selecting
the button, opening the Property inspector (Window >
Properties), and entering a new value in the Label box.
The
next step in building a login page is to add the Log In User server
behavior to verify that the entered user name and password are valid.
