The module provides learners with an understanding of the internet technologies concerned with retail with particular reference to client side programming. The aim of this module is to provide students with a thorough applied knowledge of designing, developing and deploying websites.
Overview of the Internet
The Internet and the World Wide Web.
History of the Internet and the World Wide Web.
Transmission across the Internet.
TCP/IP and Domain Names.
Basic services from FTP to the WWW.
Uniform Resource Locators (URLs).
Intranets and Extranets.
Content of the Internet.
Web Design Issues.
Internet Future.
Web Standards
What are Web standards?
Advantages of Web standards.
Design strategies for varying accessibility needs.
Create interactive web sites in accordance with W3C Standards.
Implementing Web standards.
Basic HTML and XHTML
HTML, XML and XHTML.
Basic tags Lists.
Rules and Breaks.
Special characters.
Links and Link tags.
Images and Image tags Tables. Optimisation
SEO Accessibility.
Usability Speed. Forms and Form Tags
Introduction Form Structure.
Elements.
Tags.
Layout and Design.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Introduction.
Style Tags.
Inline Styles.
Internal Style Sheets.
External Style Sheets.
Selectors/Properties/Values.
Workarounds.
Resets.
Classes/IDs. Layout
Responsive design.
Inheritance Positioning.
Floats Block vs inline elements.
Introduction to JavaScript
What is JavaScript.
Output Escape sequences.
Variable declaration.
Dialogs.
Arithmetic.
Equality and Relational Operators
JavaScript Control Structures
Keywords Assignment
Operators
Increment and Decrement Operators
Logical Operators
Sequence Structures
Selection Structures
Repetition Structures
JavaScript Functions
Introduction to functions.
Math object function.
Scope rules.
Global functions.
Recursion.
Deployment
Cloud FTP/SFTP.
Deployment methodology.
Advanced Topics
Emerging trends/standards in web design.
- Lectures and labs with presentations and demonstrations.
- Practical experimentation learning.
- Collaborative class discussions.
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| Other Assessment(s) | 100 |