Course summary (MGDP2060)

Course summary for Web Design and Development III (MGDP2060).

Source: Course Summary @ hennepintech.edu

Key topics

• Content management system - a computer application that allows publishing, editing and modifying content, organizing, deleting as well as maintenance from a central interface.
• Web content management system - a content management system which uses a web browser as an interface.
• Web template system
• PHP - a server-side scripting language designed for web development.
• WordPress
  • WordPress theme
  • WordPress plugin - software which extends the functionality of WordPress, allowing developers to create new WordPress features.
  • Category:WordPress
• Web hosting service
  • x10hosting account example

Description

The dynamic needs of modern web applications would not be possible without server-side technologies.

In this project-based course, students design and develop a dynamic website utilizing WordPress as a content management system (CMS) for the web.

WordPress concepts include:

• WordPress fundamentals
• Creating custom themes
• Website maintenance
• Using plug-ins to extend WordPress

Related topics include:

• Dynamically driven content
• Form processing
• PHP
• Database setup
• Database queries

This course also continues to explore topics from prerequisite courses:

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• Asset management
• Design considerations
• Remote hosting
• Publishing and syncing to a web host using File Transfer Protocol.

Goals

The following goals will be addressed in the course:

• Demonstrate the ability to differentiate programming languages for the web
• Distinguish how programming languages work together
• Demonstrate use of JavaScript for web development
• Integrate information for a web site
• Utilize Content Management Systems to create dynamic web site
• Demonstrate the use of PHP within a web site
• Integrate Google Maps into a web page
• Demonstrate use of dynamic scripting languages within a web site design
• Create a fully functional dynamic web site using WordPress
• Deploy web site to a web hosting service