This unit is designed to give broader and more advanced coverage of the material on website design and management introduced in MIST800 Computer Applications in Business. Students will learn in hands-on mode, in terms using web servers in a dedicated laboratory, which will simulate the environment used by companies to develop their websites for commercial use. Security issues will be addressed, as well as methods for on-line surveys and web-based statistical graphics. In addition to HTML and its extensions, available software includes ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, Visual Studio InterDev, SQL Server and MySQL.

Topics

Website Design/Architecture
SQL Queries
HTML/ASP and VBScript Programming
Image handling
Currency Transactions
JavaScript
Cascading style sheets
Personal home pages
MySQL
Further PHP applications
Web-based statistical graphics
Security issues