Designing and Implementing Web Sites with Microsoft FrontPage 98 - Part 3

Outline

1. Contents
2. Description
3. Audience
4. Prerequisites
5. Objectives
6. Topics Include
7. Duration
8. Minimum Requirements
9. Media

Description

This is the final course in a three-part series that will show Web developers how to create static and dynamic HTML pages.

Audience

This course is intended for Web developers who are responsible for creating static and dynamic HTML pages. Participants should have completed the first two courses in the series.

Prerequisites

(Currently no course prerequisite information)

Objective

• Recognize and utilize DHTML events and understand how they are used within FrontPage 98.
• Identify the various standard interfaces for database access.
• Distinguish the differences in Web Servers and utilize the most appropriate Server for the Web site's needs.
• Administer site access and analyze maintainability requirements.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Dynamic HTML

• Identify the common methods of modifying HTML elements.
• Use script to control an element within HTML documents.
• Recognize the components that are common to Dynamic HTML.
• Identify browser cross-compatibility issues when programming for a Web site.
• Identify methods of adding style elements that can be applied to HTML documents.
• Add interactivity to mouse actions.
• Modify existing script to add a coordinate display function to a mouse event.
• Identify the ways to implement Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
• Create a linked style sheet and link to an HTML document.
• Apply embedded style sheets to an HTML document.
• Apply inline styles to HTML tags by using the STYLE parameter.
• Utilize visual filters to add visual effects to an HTML document.
• Apply transitions to add animation effects to HTML documents.
• Add an animation that positions text within a Web document.

Unit 2: Database Integration

• Identify the standard database interfaces.
• Identify the characteristics of Server-Side databasing.
• Analyze the situations that are best suited for Client-Side databasing.
• Set up standard ODBC drivers and functions as an option for database access.
• Identify the properties of the Tabular Data Control.
• Connect the Tabular Data Controls.
• Recognize the components that define Remote Data Services.
• Setup a Data Source Name for binding elements on an Internet server.
• Employ the Database Region Wizard to set up access to specific areas of a database.
• Understand which attributes of HTML tags are used to bind elements in a document to the DSO.
• Recognize the varying levels of support for data-binding.
• Bind a Web page to a table to display numerous records.
• Analyze the code used to bind form fields to the DSO.
• Set the properties and methods of a recordset.
• Apply the methods of navigating a recordset.
• Identify the methodology of updating a recordset.

Unit 3: Publishing Your FrontPage Web

• Identify the features of the FrontPage Personal Web Server.
• Make modifications within Personal Web Server for Windows 95.
• Analyze when Web development needs require the use of Peer Web Services.
• Outline the criteria for using Internet Information Server for Web site publishing.
• Identify the planning necessary for developing a Web site.
• Deploy a Proxy Server as a tool for a Web site storage and access.
• Implement version control using Visual SourceSafe.
• Assign responsibility for Web site maintenance tasks.
• Implement the Channel Definition Wizard to make Web site a channel.
• Identify the functions of the FrontPage Server extensions.
• Add publications to a Web site with the Web Publishing Wizard.
• Identify the features of Visual InterDev for publication of Active Server Pages for a Web site.
• Choose when to use File Transfer Protocol for file management.

Unit 4: Web Site Maintenance

• Find and replace text within an HTML document.
• Outline the reasons for recalculating hyperlinks.
• Use the Tools menu to verify the functionality of hyperlinks.
• Apply the Shared Borders command on the Tools menu.
• Analyze the needs of securing a Web site.
• Identify the unique permissions at the browser, author and administrative levels.
• Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) as a security tool in the publishing of a Web site.
• Use the Parameters tab to create, modify, or remove variable in a FrontPage Web.
• Use the Advanced tab to modify sophisticated features of the current FrontPage Web.
• Use the Navigation tab to change the text labels on navigation bars.

Duration

8

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently, only the CDROM version supports audio).

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and XXMB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

Media

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