Advanced Technology Concepts for Web Designers


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
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Overview/Description
To introduce users to the incorporation of JavaScript and other technologies such as DHTML, cookies and plug-ins in web sites, and to web site publishing, web site maintenance, and database integration

Target Audience
Web authors, webmasters, marketing and communications professionals, PR professionals, graphic designers, desktop designers, technical writers, and library scientists

Prerequisites
Successful completion of the SkillSoft CompTIA i-Net+: Internet and Web Technologies learning path or successful completion of the CIW Foundations: 1D0 - 510 examination or the CompTIA i-Net+ TM : IK0 - 001 certification examination

Expected Duration (hours)
4.3

Lesson Objectives

Advanced Technology Concepts for Web Designers

  • outline the origins and evolution of JavaScript.
  • understand the basics of JavaScript and be able to embed JavaScript code in HTML that will communicate with the user as well as detect browser types and act accordingly.
  • develop JavaScript code that displays a pop-up window, captures user input, and opens additional browser windows.
  • write JavaScript code that detects browser types and redirects users accordingly.
  • describe Dynamic HTML, discuss the technologies it includes, and describe the Document Object Model and its relationship to DHTML.
  • write browser-specific code for use with Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.
  • develop code that displays different graphical elements in Internet Explorer 5.5 and Navigator 4.75.
  • describe the advantages of XML and XHTML and differentiate between them.
  • describe how to create an XML document.
  • describe Java applets and explain how to embed them in web pages.
  • identify various HTTP servers and explain their functions, discuss the use of ports for web servers and server administration, describe server-side technologies used to create dynamic content for web pages, and utilize a CGI-handling form.
  • describe what CGIs are and create a form to be handled with CGI.
  • describe cookies and how they can be used to enhance a web site visit.
  • describe how to choose a plugin and how to add plugin content to a web site.
  • understand how databases and database management systems function.
  • identify the major Internet governing and standards organizations and be able to explain their roles.

    • Course Number:
    31607_eng