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The administration and creation of web sites


What will I learn from this course?

This course is the definitive guide to HTML. The course will introduce you to HTML and the Web, you will learn to create web pages, include images and links so that you can develop your own web site. You will then look at how to create web pages using frames.
The course will then take you from the planning stage of a web site through the design of web site structure to how to layout individual web pages. You will then find out how to publish your web site effectively including top tips on getting your site ranked in the elusive top pages!
Finally you will be introduced to the concepts of Common Gateway Interface programs and the latest advanced Web programming languages (JavaScript, XML and Perl).


The course contents:


Lecture 1: Introduction to HTML


  • Section 1 - Introduction to the WWW and HTML
  • Section 2 - Introduction to Hypertext Mark-up Language

    Lecture 2 HTML documents, images and hypertext links

  • Section 1 - A simple HTML document
  • Section 2 - HTML tags and attributes
  • Section 3 - Document structure
  • Section 4 - Some common tags and attributes
  • Section 5 - Text and colour styles

    Lecture 3a - HTML documents, hypertext links and images

  • Section 1 - An introduction to links
  • Section 2 - Dissecting the URL (Universal Resource Locator)
  • Section 3 - Absolute and relative URLs
  • Section 4 - Creating link anchors
  • Section 5 - Images and hypertext links

    Lecture 3b - Style sheets

  • Section 1 - Understanding how style sheets work
  • Section 2 - Implementing style sheets

    Lecture 3c - Adding images to your web pages

  • Section 1 - Developing images
  • Section 2 - Inserting images into HTML

    Lecture 3d - Adding tables to your web pages

  • Section 1 - Creating basic tables
  • Section 2 - Adding and removing rows and columns
  • Section 3 - Spanning rows and columns
  • Section 4 - Adding captions
  • Section 5 - Formatting tables
  • Section 6 - Using tables to format your web pages

    Lecture 3e - Adding forms to your web pages

  • Section 1 - Form content
  • Section 2 - Building a form
  • Section 3 - The processing of forms

    Lecture 3f - Adding frames to your web site


  • Section 1 - The pros and cons of frames
  • Section 2 - Creating frames
  • Section 3 - Effective navigation

    Lecture 4 - Planning your web site

  • Section 1 - The pros and cons of frames
  • Section 2 - Creating frames

    Lecture 5 - The design of web pages

  • Section 1 - Designing the look and feel
  • Section 2 - Testing the first iteration of the look and feel
  • Section 3 - Text for your site - the text style guide
  • Section 4 - Development of the page content

    Lecture 6 - Uploading and testing your web site

  • Section 1 - Publishing your web site
  • Section 2 - Testing the site once it has been uploaded
  • Section 3 - Maintaining documents
  • Section 4 - Managing a Web site

    Lecture 7 - Search engines and improving your site

  • Section 1 - Search engines
  • Section 2 - Promote your web site with META tags
  • Section 3 - Registering your web site in the search engines
  • Section 4 - Other methods of increasing web site publicity
  • Section 5 - Improving your web site

    Lecture 8 - The HTTP Protocol

  • Section 1 - The HTTP Protocol
  • Section 2 - An example of a basic HTTP session
  • Section 3 - Access control, user authentication and data encryption
  • Section 4 - Proxy Servers and Server Caching

    Lecture 9 - The common gateway interface (CGI)

  • Section 1 - The dynamic web
  • Section 2 - Communication with Gateway programs

    Lecture 10 - An introduction to advance web programing

  • Section 1 - An introduction to JavaScript
  • Section 2 - An introduction to XML
  • Section 3 - Perl


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