Web Design and Development III (MGDP2060)
Web Design and Development III (MGDP2060) is a course at Hennepin Technical College.
Fall 2016: Thursdays, 08/25 - 12/15 (5:30 pm - 9:20 pm).
Instructor: Karl Jones - karl.jones@hennepintech.edu
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Class structure
A typical class session consists of these phases:
- 5:30 - 5:40 = preliminaries
- Everybody settled at their workstation?
- Any immediate problems with workstations, network, files, homework, anything?
- 5:40 - 7:00 = Lecture
- Discussion of topics
- Demonstration of examples
- 7:00 until done = In-class exercises based upon lecture topics
- Sometimes with "Do by next week" or "Do by end of semester" exercises
- Remainder of evening until 9:15 = Open lab
- 9:20 = Done for the night
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Course detail
Prerequisites
Prerequisite is Web Design and Development I (MGDP1250), or instructor's permission.
Credits
Three credits.
Course Summary
Source: Course Summary @ hennepintech.edu
Description
The dynamic needs of modern web applications would not be possible without server-side technologies.
This course explores PHP by developing dynamically driven content, form processing, Content management systems (CMS) and will focus on WordPress.
Topics also include:
In this project-based course, students design and develop a dynamic website utilizing WordPress as a CMS.
Concepts include:
- WordPress fundamentals
- Creating custom themes
- Website maintenance
- Using plug-ins to extend WordPress
This course also continues to explore topics from prerequisite courses:
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Asset management
- Design considerations
- Remote hosting
- Live publishing (File Transfer Protocol)
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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 web hosting service