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COURSE INFORMATION

Web Design and Management II

CBIS Technology & Analysis Elective, by Distance

Program Options: CBIS TRU

This course introduces you to the creation of dynamic websites using server-side scripting and relational databases. Students will gain a good conceptual understanding of how dynamic websites, such as a shopping cart or a blog application, are created. This course is aimed at non-programmers who already have experience creating basic, static websites using HTML and CSS using a text editor.

It complements Web Design and Management I by exploring the technologies used to create data-driven websites. The programming language introduced in this course is PHP. Technical topics include variables, data types, error-handling, validation strategies, handling text and mathematical operations in web script, control structures and loops, and handling user sessions using a login form.

The course also covers topics pertaining to the design and management of server-scripted, data-driven web applications, including information architecture and roles and responsibilities in a typical web development team.

Prerequisite: Computing Concepts and Web Design and Management I or equivalent experience (the ability to read/write HTML and CSS without the use of web-editing software, and use FTP-software to transfer files to an external server)

Objective

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• explain and identify the key elements of Web sites including user interface, database connectivity and information architecture
• explore strategies and technologies for database-driven site content management
• describe roles and responsibilities in a typical Web development team
• work with and modify PHP scripts to provide database-driven content on web sites:
  • work on an introductory level with PHP (variables, data types, arithmetic operators)
  • understand and implement form validation and error-handling, basic arithmetic operations, basic text-handling operations as well as control structures and loops
  • use arrays to retrieve and update database content
  • create functions; denoting parameters and return values
  • handle user state with cookies
  • work with PHP sessions and design of user authentication (login) systems
• design HTML Web forms to process data on the server side
• work with uploaded files
• retrieve and use information from remote web services
• review essential relational database management concepts such as table and field structures and queries

Format

By Distance

CBIS courses are 13 weeks in duration. Students login to the course and communicate with the instructor and fellow students via the course management system Moodle. For further information about Moodle, visit the Moodle Startup Kit at http://distance.uvic.ca/onlinehelp/tutorials/moodle/.

Requisites

• Required Equipment/Software:

  • Personal Computer (PC)
  • Windows 2000 or higher
  • Microsoft Office 2000 or higher
  • Internet Explorer 6 or higher
  • Filezilla
  • Internet access
  • Email account

  Textbook

  PHP for the Web (3rd ed.), by Ullmann - ISBN: 0321442490, plus Web-based readings.
  Please purchase text from UVic Bookstore (www.uvicbookstore.ca)

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