Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2014 v.13 User Manual

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A relational database A database containing more than one table, with the tables sharing data. The following database is relational because two
tables share the DepartmentID column.

A server technology The technology that an application server uses to modify dynamic pages at runtime.
The Dreamweaver development environment supports the following server technologies:

Adobe® ColdFusion®

Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP)

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP)

You can also use the Dreamweaver coding environment to develop pages for any other server technology not listed.

A static page A web page that is not modified by an application server before the page is sent to a browser. For more information, see
Processing static web pages.

A web application A website that contains pages with partly or entirely undetermined content. The final content of these pages is determined only
when a visitor requests a page from the web server. Because the final content of the page varies from request to request based on the visitor’s
actions, this kind of page is called a dynamic page.

A web server Software that sends out web pages in response to requests from web browsers. A page request is generated when a visitor clicks a
link on a web page in the browser, selects a bookmark in the browser, or enters a URL in the browser’s address text box.

Popular web servers include Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) and Apache HTTP Server.