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