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Diploma in IT Web Elective students

XML TEST WEEK 17 -Thursday 16th June
Welcome everyone. For the first few weeks class downloads will be available here. This blog is not meant to be a replacement for class attendance but as a way for you to access files relevant to classes. Additional notes may be provided in class so ask someone in class to collect any handouts that you might miss

The best way to contact me is via email at Urshula.Beere[at]det.nsw.edu.au I will try to reply within 24 hours but I will not be able to provide tut support via email!!! I will how ever be available at Kingy Wednesday avo’s 2:30-5:00

Assessments

Download “Design a Website To Meet Technical Requirements” assessment   here

Download Relate to clients on a business level assessment here

Week 1

Topics

Introductions

Relate to Client on a Business level assignment

Overview of relate to clients on business level

Overview of WordPress

Revision of CSS

downloads

Download your Student Assessment Guides here

Download Week 1 CSS Exercise files here

Additional resources

Relate to clients week 1 powerpoint

Introduction to WordPress

CSS revision resources

Week 2

Topics

Overview of Assessments

Relate to clients – 1 understanding clients

Relate to clients - 2 Understanding client support needs clients

Relate to clients – 3 proposing client support solutions

Group Exercise

Continuation of CSS exercise from last week

Week 3

Topics

Business Requirement Documents

CSS exercise

Well designed websites from a visual perspective

Downloads

Business Requirements Document Structure download here

Week 3 Exercise file download here

Week 4

Important!!!!! Part a of the “Relate to Clients” assignment is due. Please email your report in MS Word format to urshulab[at]gmail.com by 5 pm Thursday 3/3/2011

Topics

Planning a website (Part A of “Design a website to meet technical requirements” is due NEXT WEEK)

Market Segmentation

Photoshop Layout exercise download exercise files below

Downloads

Download Photoshop layout exercise files here

Week 5

This week we will complete the practical component in the morning and then carry on with the theorical component and report requirements after this. So first task will be to complete the static website that we begun last week.

Topics

Continuation of week 4′s Photoshop exercise

Review of assignments submitted last week

Hosting requirements (because next week we want to begin installing wordpress)

Assignment Part A: Design a website to meet technical Requirments is due today

Assignment Part B: Design a website to meet technical Requirments is due next week

Downloads

You can download my version of last weeks exercise here to work with this week  if you would prefer to work with the same files as me

Week 6

Topics

1. FTP
   Click here to download FTP overview PowerPoint
2. Hosting Control Panels
   http://www.hoststore.net/cp_demo.asp
3. Databases and the web
   Overview diagrams
4. Installing WordPress
   Instructions
5. How to keep search engines from indexing your website
   Click here for instructions on how and what robot.txt files are. Important note to be aware is that this will not stop Google indexing WordPress posts. To stop Google indexing posts you must choose the right optins as you install WordPress or through your WordPress dash board.

Week 7

Topics

Part B Relate to clients due NEXT WEEK
What is a Service Level Agreement click here

Week 8

This week “Part C: Completed static website”

You must upload the completed website to a public web host and submit the final site and all source files for review to the teacher.

Remember: The submitted website is expected to reflect your design document. How well it reflects the design document will affect your final grading for this unit. So while your submitted website may not contain all the required content I DO expect it to contain all the required PAGES and that your documentation reflects the identfication of these pages. as an example of you have identified a shopping cart as a function of your website I am expecting all required information pages appropriate to a an ecommerce site. Such as a Terms and Conditions etc. This is really important and will be reflected in the final result you recieve.

It doesn’t mean that you have to have all the “product” pages but you would have at least one product pages, I am refering to the information/ content pages.

And although you may not implement everything in your plan your plan does need to realistically reflect at the very least all the static pages that “big” plan would require.

Also in regards to part B of this units assignments as they are all very different I will go through them with each of you individually to provide you with the most effective feed back

Topic

WordPress permissions
overview from WordPress

Week 9- Holidays Woohoo

Part B: relate to clients due today!!

WordPress- Widgets VS Plugins

Week10

Welcome back this term we will be completing 2 further units

ICAB5161B Build a document using extensible mark-up language- graded unit
You are expected to create an xml with a xslt document and there will be a short test which will contribute to your grading for this unit.

Here is the assessment sheet

Here are the week 1 XML notes

The other unit we will be competing is ICAD5210B Analyse information and assign meta-tags an ungraded unit

Here is the assessment sheet

Week 11

This week we will continuing to develop XML documents but also look at how we can control their formatting with CSS and XSLT. You can view the notes in this post

Then if we have time we will look at more of Googles tools such as the keyword tool we looked at last week.

Week 12 XML and XSL

This week we will begin with some revision before moving onto looking at some simple common XSLT elements

It may be helpful to open this document to see an example of XML and XSL code to refer back to as we work through the theory.

And here  is  this weeks notes (xml-and-xslt-week-3-week12)

Week 13

Meta Tags

 

Week 14

SEO Meta stuff Link

XLST Referencing image files

<img><!–we have to use the image tag–>

<xsl:attribute name=”src”><!– then we have to use xml attribute function which say for the img tag we are about to specify the src attribute –>

<xsl:value-of select=”thumbnail”/> <!– then we have the standard select function which is self closing–>

</xsl:attribute><!–and finally we have to close off the xml attribute.–>

</img>

Week 15

This week you will have time to finish off any work you need to for me and we will also be looking at creating our own WordPress themes from photoshop files

Week 16

XML TEST NEXT WEEK!!!

This week we are looking at the process of implementing ajax scripts.  When first implementing someone else’s scripts I find it best to do on  blank html document first so that if it doesn’t work I know that it isn’t my code that is causing the error. Here are 2 links that we will use as examples:

JPlayer http://www.jplayer.org/

jPlayer is a  free and open source media library written in JavaScript. It uses the jQuery library to enable you to include  audio and video into your static web pages.

Simple jquery slideshow http://buildinternet.com/2009/06/how-to-make-a-slideshow-with-a-transparent-png-frame/

This is a simple slideshow which is very easy to implement. Once you have implemented it see if you can work out how to change the effect from sliding to something else.

This is a great article comparing the performance of PHP on Windows and Linux & 5.2 versus 5.3 and asp.net on a Windows server. The testing methodology is very sound and well documented . But what I found just as interesting were the comments and which were well worth read.

Check it out here on the misfit guy website

UPDATE: The author has written another great follow up article taking on board feedback from devotees of PHP and ASP.NET  with more well written comments
Misfit guys follow up article