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Developing Ajax Web 2.0 Applications: Hands-On

Enhancing the Web User Experience
 
Course: 986   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Develop Ajax-powered interactive and dynamic Web sites
  • Design accessible interfaces for cross-browser compatibility
  • Integrate frameworks for data exchange on multiple server environments
  • Leverage toolkits to rapidly create rich user-friendly interfaces
  • Optimise and strengthen code to build stable applications
  • Protect vital information from interception

Course Benefits

Ajax is a powerful Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications that respond in the same familiar way as desktop applications. Enhancing your organisation's current Web site with Ajax increases usability and customer satisfaction while maintaining a competitive edge. In this course, you gain the practical skills required to effectively design, create and implement Ajax-enabled Web sites.

Who Should Attend

Web developers, designers, programmers, system architects, analysts and those involved in developing and managing Web applications. Experience with JavaScript at the level of Course 489, "JavaScript for Web Development", is required.

Hands-On Training

You are immersed in an evolving case study creating an Ajax-enabled Web site. Exercises include:
  • Enhancing the security of Ajax data transmissions
  • Organising the user interface with sortable lists and drag-and-drop
  • Integrating popular toolkits and frameworks with server- and client-side technologies
  • Creating intuitive interfaces
  • Developing seamless and updatable application content
  • Plotting and mapping using third-party geolocation APIs
  • Expanding your site search with autosuggest

Related Courses

  • 470 Developing a Web Site
  • 522 Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for Web Pages
  • 542 XML Comprehensive Introduction
  • 471 Java Programming Comprehensive Introduction
  • 512 Developing ASP.NET Web Applications
  • 519 Introduction to PHP for Web Development

   Developing Ajax Web 2.0 Applications

Upcoming Dates

30 Sep - 3 Oct, 2008
London
2 - 5 Dec, 2008
London
27 - 30 Jan, 2009
London
31 Mar - 3 Apr, 2009
London
2 - 5 Jun, 2009
London
4 - 7 Aug, 2009
London

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Developing Ajax Web 2.0 Applications: Hands-On

Enhancing the Web User Experience
 
Course: 986   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
Course Content
 

Ajax Fundamentals

Identifying core Ajax/Web 2.0 components

  • XHTML
  • XML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS
  • DOM
  • Exchanging information using the XMLHttpRequest object

Building single page Web applications

  • Measuring the business benefits of Ajax
  • Improving data exchange efficiency
  • Streamlining data entry and presentation

Enhancing the User Experience

Designing interfaces

  • Assessing presentation requirements
  • Converting appropriate site functionality to Ajax

Providing interactive updates

  • Indicating the freshness of data
  • Incorporating effective form validation
  • Notifying users of system events and changes

Meeting accessibility standards

  • Architecting for progressive enhancement and graceful degradation
  • Complying with W3C and specific government guidelines

Cross-browser tips and techniques

  • Resolving "back button" limitations
  • Adding bookmarking capabilities
  • Addressing browser-specific issues

Integrating Data Sources

Benefits of Ajax frameworks

  • Facilitating interaction with client-side code
  • Decreasing time-to-market

Exporting and syndication

  • Integrate a dynamic RSS reader
  • Monitoring and responding to data changes through automated messaging

Maximising Toolkits for Rich User Interfaces

Leveraging code libraries

  • Enabling drag-and-drop
  • Marrying data and presentation through in-line editing
  • Exploiting special effects for the "wow factor"

Developing a rich user interface

  • Populating forms with dynamical requests
  • Assisting the user with autosuggest
  • Supercharging data forms with rich text editors

Enhancing JavaScript functionality

  • Accessing page elements
  • Modifying page content
  • Extending standard JavaScript objects

Strengthening and Optimising Performance

Designing for performance

  • Avoiding memory leaks
  • Compressing for optimal download speed
  • Choosing efficient data structures

Managing and protecting code

  • Safeguarding existing code with exception handling
  • Structuring and refactoring for reuse and maintenance
  • Debugging and testing techniques
  • Guarding against malicious JavaScript code

Securing Data Exchange

Investigating security issues

  • Avoiding cross-browser pitfalls
  • Intercepting remote services communication
  • Stopping invalid cookie usage

Protecting sensitive data

  • Sniffing data packets
  • Designing applications with security in mind
  • Encrypting JavaScript with security algorithms

Emerging Technologies

Exploiting third-party Ajax APIs

  • Plotting and annotating live mapping data
  • Utilising geodata to improve business processes
  • Circumventing browser security limitations with On Demand JavaScript
  • Injecting dynamic JavaScript into a Web Page

Debugging techniques

  • Monitoring communications
  • Handling server errors
  • Utilising browser tools
 
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Developing Ajax Web 2.0 Applications: Hands-On Tuition

Enhancing the Web User Experience
 
Course: 986   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

Course 986 Tuition

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  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Lunch
  • Course Completion Certificate
  • FREE participation in the Learning Tree Professional Certification Programmes (including related exams)
  
 

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