1. Brookdale Community College Webmaster Certification Program Syllabus (Spring 1999)
Brookdale Community College
Community Development
Webmaster Certification Course
Spring Semester 1999
Syllabus
Course Overview
As a Webmaster you will wear many hats. HTML Author and Designer, Systems
Administrator and Applications Developer -- these are just some of the roles you
may be called upon to play in your organization. This 90 hour webmaster
certification course is designed to expose you to these three basic functional areas,
enabling you to function as Webmaster in a variety of environments and
organizational settings. Classroom instruction will include, but will not be limited to,
the following topics: HTML and Web Design; Web Management With Microsoft
FrontPage; Windows and UNIX Web Server Installation, Configuration and
Management; Client and Server-Side Web Programming; Web Databases and
Transaction Processing. As part of this course, students will design and deploy an
actual Web Site for the Jersey Coast Chapter of the American Red Cross.
Class Schedule
This course consists of thirty sessions, each of which will last three hours. The class sessions are scheduled for Thursday evenings, 6:30-9:30pm, Feb 18-May 27 and
Saturday mornings, 9am-noon, February 20-May 29, 1999. These sessions will consist of approximately 50 minutes of lecture interspersed with 25 minutes of
demonstrations. We will take a 15 minute break half way through the class and then return to spend an hour on Lab exercises. The session will conclude with the
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instructor's wrap-up and Question and Answer session for the final half hour. We will begin in February by covering the Webmaster's role as HTML author and designer.
As move from February to May, the complexity of the tasks we will tackle together will increase from coding simple HTML to developing basic transaction processing
solutions for your organization. In March, we will cover the basics of Web systems administration, allowing students to gain practical experience setting up and running
Web servers in both MS Windows and UNIX environments. Web programming topics, in particular JavaScript and CGI, will be our focus in April. We will conclude or
course in May with a consideration of advanced topics in Web systems administration. At each level we will add additional components to the class project site. Along the
way we will take field trips to Web sites with relevant information, thereby broadening our exposure to the wealth of webmaster resources available on the Internet.
Prerequisites
Experience with a PC, familiarity with a Web browser and a strong desire to learn.
Students must have access to a PC with access to the Internet and a current
version of either the Netscape Communicator Browser or Microsoft Internet
Explorer.
Required Textbooks
WebMaster in a Nutshell, Deluxe Edition, Apache: The Definitive Guide and
Mastering Internet Information Server 4.0 are the three required texts for this course
(Web Security and Commerce is suggested reading, but not required). The three
required texts will be available through the Brookdale Bookstore and can also be
purchased directly from Amazon.com and other online retailers. Note that Apache:
The Definitive Guide is scheduled for publication in February 1999, so you will have
to wait a couple of weeks to buy it. We will not use it in the class until later in the
semester, so there shouldn't be an issue with obtaining it before we will use it.
February
Webmaster as HTML Author and Designer
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(Class Account Required)
Thursday, February 18
Lesson 1: Overview of the Role of Webmaster Today -- The Big Picture
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 1: Introduction to Web Services Infrastructure
Saturday, February 20
Lesson 2: Web Page Authoring Basics With HTML Code
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 2: Introduction to Hypertext Markup Language
Thursday, February 25
Lesson 3: Advanced HTML Coding and Advanced Web Authoring Tools
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 4 : Advanced Web Page Authoring and Design With and Without GUI (Graphical User Interface) Tools
Saturday, February 27
Lesson 4: Design Fundamentals For Web Pages and Web Sites
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 3: Graphic Elements/Color Schemes/Navigational Elements
March
Webmaster as Systems Administrator: The Basics
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(Class Account Required)
Saturday, March 6
Lesson 5: Web Management From FTP to FrontPage And Beyond
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 5: Posting Your Pages and Managing Your Site
Thursday, March 11
Lesson 6: Windows NT Server 4.0 in a Nutshell
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 6: Installing and Administering an NT 4.0 Server
Saturday, March 13
Lesson 7: Windows NT Web Server Installation, Configuration and Management, Part I
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 7: Obtaining Windows NT Option Pack 4 and Installing IIS
Thursday, March 18
Lesson 8: Windows Web Server Configuration and Management, Part II
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 8: Basic IIS Configuration and Management
Saturday, March 20
Lesson 9: Linux in a Nutshell, Part I
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Lecture and Demonstration Topic 9: Fundamental Linux Concepts
Lesson 10: Linux in a Nutshell, Part II
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 10: More Fundamental Linux Concepts
Thursday, March 25
Lesson 11: Linux Web Server Installation, Configuration and Management, Part I
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 11: Basic Apache Configuration and Management
Saturday, March 27
Lesson 12: Linux Web Server Installation, Configuration and Management, Part II
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 12: More Apache Configuration and Management
April
Webmaster as Applications Developer
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(Class Account Required)
Thursday, April 1
Lesson 13: Introduction to the Web as Application Development Environment
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Lecture and Demonstration Topic 13: Overview of Client and Server Programming in Windows and UNIX Environments
Saturday, April 3
Lesson 14: Client Side Web Programming, Part I
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 15: JavaScript Programming 1
Thursday, April 8
Lesson 15: Red Cross Visit and Common Web Applications Demonstration
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 14: Common Web Application Examples
Thursday, April 10
Lesson 16: Client Side Web Programming, Part II
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 16: JavaScript Programming 2
Thursday, April 15
Lesson 17: Client Side Web Programming, Part III
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 17: JavaScript Programming 3
Saturday, April 17
Lesson 18: Server Side Web Programming, Part I
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 18: CGI Programming 1
Thursday, April 22
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Lesson 19: Server Side Web Programming, Part II
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 19: CGI Programming 2
Saturday, April 24
Lesson 20: Server Side Web Programming, Part III
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 20: CGI Programming 3
Thursday, April 29
Lesson 21: Windows Application Development
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 21: Microsoft Development Tools for Active Server Pages
May
Webmaster as Systems Administrator: Advanced Topics
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(Class Account Required)
Saturday, May 1
Lesson 22: Enabling An Interactive Web Experience, An Overview of the Terrain
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 22: The Building Blocks of an Interactive Web Site
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Lesson 23: Web Databases, Part I
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 23: Using MS Access and FP 98
Saturday, May 8
Lesson 24: Web Databases, Part II
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 24: Using a Linux Database With Perl
Thursday, May 13
Lesson 25: Introduction to Web Security Issues
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 25: Windows NT and Linux Security, The Challenge of Web Environments
Saturday, May 15
Lesson 26: Implementing SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) on Windows and Linux Web Servers
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 26: Secure Sockets Implementation in IIS 4 and Apache
Thursday, May 20
Lesson 27: Intro to Web Metrics, Server Performance and Tuning on the NT Platform
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 27: Using Microsoft Site Server Express
Saturday, May 22
Lesson 28: Fundamentals of Web-Based Transaction Processing
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Lecture and Demonstration Topic 28: Introduction to Transaction Processing Concepts
Thursday, May 27
Lesson 29: Student Project
Lecture and Demonstration Topic 29: Jersey Coast Chapter (ARC) and Monmouth Museum Web Site Final Reports
Saturday, May 29
Lesson 30: Open Lab
Lecture and Demonstration Topic: Lab Open For Hands-On
*WYSIWIG: What You See Is What You Get.
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