Course Outline

Week 1
Unit 1                 (day 1)
Overview of the course
Overview of Web Technology
What is the Web and how does it work?
Who are the big players (companies and organizations)?
What are the technologies used to build web applications?
What will be the name of your website?
How to search, purchase and manage a website domain name
Where will you host your site?
What to look for in an ISP (Internet Service Provider)

Unit 2                 (day 3)
Setting up and managing your website
Getting to know your website admin panel
Linking your domain name to your ISP

Unit 3                 (day 5)
Configuring and managing your website mailboxes
Creating an FTP account
Introduction to html

Week 2
Unit 4                 (day 8)
Building your first web site (steps)
Assembling the parts
• logo graphic
• banner graphic
• buttons
• content (text & pictures)
Overview of web editing software
Creating the template or coding the GUI (graphical user interface)

Unit 5                 (day 10)
Using the template
Building the other pages
Testing your site

Unit 6                 (day 12)
Cascading style sheets (CSS)
Explore gifts from your teacher

Week 3
Unit 7                 (day 15)
Graphics for the web
File types
Explore gifts from your teacher
Creating and editing graphics

Unit 8                 (day 16)
Slicing graphics for the web
Optimizing for the web

Unit 9                 (day 18)
Using video on the web
Camcorder to computer to the web
Video resources on the web

Week 4
Unit 10                 (day 22)
Use the web to find answers and solutions
How to use Google to get help
Open source solutions (they’re really free)

Unit 11                 (day 23)
So you’ve got something to say?
Installing your blog
The admin panel
Adding new content
Creating your blog content

Unit 12                 (day 25)
Installing a support ticket tracking system
Configuring the solution
The admin panel
Testing your web based help desk application

Week 5
Unit 13                 (day 29)
Introduction to SQL databases
What is a table?
What is meant by relational tables?
Your database admin panel
Creating a new database
Creating tables

Unit 14                 (day 30)
Server side applications (an overview)
PHP and HTML
Linking to a database
Listing records in the database

Week 6
Unit 15                 (day 36)
Creating an html form
Sending the form results to the database
or Inserting a record to the database
Test the results (display our list page)

Unit 16                 (day 38)
So you want to receive an email when someone fills in your web form?
Using PHP to send email

Unit 18                 (day 40)
Need to edit a record? It’s easy
So is deleting a record

Week 7
Unit 19                 (day 43)
Selling online
A little about security
How PayPal works
Listing the items to be sold

Unit 20                 (day 45)
Linking to PayPal
The shopping cart
Checkout

Week 8
Unit 21                 (day 56)
Questions and Answers
Your feedback counts - How was the course?
Now, honestly—did you complete all of your assignments?
Congratulations and Graduation

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