Course summary (MGDP2060)
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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.
- 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
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:
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
