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Developing a Web Site: Hands-On

Course: 470   Type: Hands-On   Duration: 4 Days
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You Will Learn How To

  • Establish, configure and maintain an intranet or Internet Web site
  • Develop and publish Web pages using HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
  • Optimise page styles and layout with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
  • Configure a Web server
  • Capture, retrieve and display information via a database
  • Produce dynamic Web pages using server-side and client-side scripts

Course Benefits
Functional and attractive Web sites are critical elements of success for most organisations. In order to stand out from the competition, a site must be aesthetically appealing as well as perform smoothly and efficiently. In this hands-on course, you gain the knowledge and practical skills you need to develop a Web site. You learn the fundamentals of HTML syntax and layout, creating effective Web pages, configuring a Web server and interfacing your Web site to databases.

Who Should Attend
Those involved in establishing, developing or maintaining a Web site. A basic familiarity with Microsoft Windows, the Internet and the Web is helpful.

Hands-on Training
An in-depth case study provides the hands-on skills to generate a dynamic Web site. Exercises include:
  • Creating accessible, standards-based Web pages with HTML, XHTML and CSS
  • Building, testing and refining your Web site
  • Adding DHTML effects to Web pages
  • Enhancing your Web page with images & image maps
  • Configuring and testing a Web server
  • Processing user requests and generating dynamic pages with ASP or PHP
  • Interfacing your Web site to a database
  • Incorporating multimedia effects

Course Content
Introduction to the Web
  • Internet/intranet fundamentals
  • Web architecture
  • Exploring multiple browsers
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
HTML: Hypertext Markup Language
Building a Web page with HTML and XHTML
  • Head and body elements
  • Formatting text with tags
  • Establishing hypertext links
  • Ordered and unordered lists
  • Designing tables to display data
  • Defining relative and absolute anchors
Adding graphic elements
  • Making your pages graphical with embedded images
  • Adding interactivity with "clickable" images
  • Utilising animated images to liven up a Web page
  • Creating image maps to link multiple parts of a single image
Controlling page styles and layout with CSS
  • Attaching style properties to HTML tags
  • Creating and applying style sheets
  • Implementing a styled navigational menu
  • Choosing and applying styles with class and id attributes
  • Ensuring a consistent look across all pages of a site
Implementing a Web Server
Web server functionality
  • Web server/browser communication
  • The HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Configuring a Web server
  • Setting up the server directory structure
  • Deploying access configuration/security
  • Ongoing server administration
Programming on the Server
Server-side scripting
  • Client/server/script interaction
  • Exploring the operation of server-side Web applications
  • Accessing data on the Web server
  • Server-side processing: PHP, JSP, ASP
  • The difference between GET and POST requests
  • Including a consistent navigational menu on all pages
  • Reading and writing browser cookies
Processing user data with forms
  • Capturing user input with HTML forms
  • Adding text fields, selection lists, check boxes and radio buttons to a Web page
  • Configuring a form to invoke your server-side program when submitted
  • Processing form input with PHP, ASP or JSP
Interfacing to a Database
Relational databases and the Web
  • Defining a database
  • Characterising database records
  • Using SQL to manipulate the database
Connecting Web pages to databases
  • Creating Web pages to insert, delete and update records
  • Inserting and retrieving data with ASP and PHP
  • Embedding queries in server-side programs
Creating Dynamic Web Pages
Adding interactivity with JavaScript
  • Incorporating JavaScript that executes in the Web browser
  • Enhancing client-side functionality
  • Validating form content to ensure forms are filled out correctly
  • Reacting to user actions
Incorporating multimedia
  • Embedding animation and video content in Web pages
  • Adding interactivity with plug-ins
Creating interactive Web pages with Dynamic HTML (DHTML)
  • Combining JavaScript and CSS
  • Supporting multiple browsers
  • Dynamically positioning content within a page
  • Revealing and hiding page content
  • Implementing rollover graphics with DHTML
XML and XHTML
  • Fundamentals of XML
  • Implementing an RSS feed on your site

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