Hands On Training - WWW Outline

Hands-On Training No Deadlines Networks & First Time Systems present
HANDS-ON

Building
a World-Wide-Web Site

INTRODUCTION | DAY ONE | DAY TWO | DAY THREE | Schedule of Classes

Introduction:
During this three-day class, each student learns how to create and maintain a World-Wide-Web Site. They will, among other things: create web pages - including forms, imagemaps and hyperlinks - using Hypertext Markup Language. They will post those pages on the web server they installed, and serve those pages to the World-Wide-Web, having taken the procedure from concept to completion.

All labs are interspersed with lectures offering them a deeper insight into how the web works, where it came from, where it's going - and how to put it to use to achieve their goals and benefit from it.

Guaranteed key Benefits

Evaluate access providers based on your real needs
Exploit the free resources on the Net to optimize your server configuration
Implement effective information architecture today that will save you time and money in the future
Demystify HTML for brilliant presentation of your organization's information
Demystify data capturing
Learn how CGI, Scripting Languages and Java give you more control over and capablity to your Web pages
Deal effectively with security issues
Reinforce your knowledge with 7 Hands-On Labs

DAY ONE

TOP | INTRODUCTION | DAY ONE | DAY TWO | DAY THREE | I. | II. | III. | IV.

I. THE WEB ON THE RISE

Schedule: Day One 8:30 - 10:00

Where did the World-wide Web come from? - And where is it going?
Why is the web such a commercial success?
How is the Web serving businesses today and how is it serving users?
What characterizes the most successful implementations?
What will the Web look like in the future and what are the implications for your planning?
And how do you fit in?

II. EFFECTIVE PLANNING:
WHAT DO YOU NEED?

HARDWARE
SOFTWARE
CONNECTIVITY
SKILLS

CHOOSING YOUR MEANS OF NETWORK ACCESS
Schedule: Day One 10:15-12:00

Assessing your options for Internet connection based on:

target audience
likely traffic
desired data throughput
costs
bandwidth requirements

Determining your access level needs: your own continuous connection, dedicated line or dial up SLIP and PPP?
Know your range of options from 56-Kbps to T-3
Minimizing communications charges while maximizing user access and data throughput
Future proofing: planning for extra capacity
Letting others know about the existence of your server

global registries
USENET news groups
electronic mailing lists
"what's new?" pages
links from other organizations

LAB: Exercise in Planning. Given your specific network requirements, narrow your choice of access methods for your situation. Compare likely upfront and monthly costs.

III. EVALUATING YOUR HOST COMPUTER PLATFORM

Schedule: Day One 1:00-3:00

Matching your information to the right Server & Protocol - Http, Ftp, SMTP, (also discuss ASCII & ODBC)
How to make the decision between using your own server or outsourcing
Compare your platform options in terms of stability, performance and RAM

Are UNIX boxes always the best choice?
Is WindowsNT an appropriate platform?
Are multi-tasking environments the only choice?

Does your server have to be dedicated?
Estimating your RAM requirements
Maximize stability and performance while minimizing cost
Future growth considerations

THE SERVER-BROWSER RELATIONSHIP:

Accounting for the variety of web browsers & servers
and Selecting Among Them

SERVERS:: Netscape, Apache, Website, Microsoft, Oracle, Win97

BROWSERS:

Netscape, Microsoft I.E., NCSA Mosaic, Dos Lynx

Overview of the publicly available client browsers

What do the commercial browsers offer that Mosaic doesn't?
Which browsers are most popular now and what are the implications for your server?

LAB: Software Test Drive:
Become Familiar with Netscape - the (currently) unquestionable leader.
Compare it to other contemporary Web Browsers re: interface and functionality.

IV. OVERCOME THE HURDLE OF LEARNING HYPER TEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE (HTML)
Schedule: Day One 3:15 - 5:00

How to accommodate the variety of client browsers
Create files with formatting directives for HTML
Staying current with HTML specs
Overview of HTML management practices, tools and techniques
Overview of HTML authoring tools
Balancing graphics and text to get your message across - what factors must you consider?
Tools and technologies for adding sound, graphics and motion
Providing sound: navigating the minefield of standards

LAB: Begin Your Webpage using basic HTML Tags

DAY TWO

TOP | INTRODUCTION | DAY ONE | DAY TWO | DAY THREE

9:00 - 9:15 Review of Day One

V. PLANNING AND DEFINING INFORMATION CONTENT AND STRUCTURE
Schedule: Day Two 9:15-10:15
(page layout and link forms)

Organizing information to make it palatable, easy to access and easy-to-digest
Systematize your information right the first time - while building flexibility in
Making your documents palatable for the user, and easy to manage
How to present the information: formatted text, images, audio, video or separate files
Using templates to reduce work

VI. SERVER SOFTWARE:
Schedule: Day Two 10:30 - 12:00

FINDING, GETTING, CONFIGURING

Where to find it
Is the free stuff good enough?
Which servers run best on which hardware platforms?

LAB: Software Search: You will see in class how to find software on the Internet; including servers, clients and other Internet utilities.
Download WHTTPD Server

LAB: Server Installation and Configuration: You will install server software and modify server configuration files. You will see first hand how configuration changes will alter the behavior of the server software

VII. USING YOUR LEGACY DOCUMENTS
Schedule: Day Two 1:00 - 2:00

What tools exist for migrating your existing information to HTML format?
Do any packages do it automatically?
Striking the balance between aesthetics and speed
What is the state of standards for HTML?

LAB: RTF2HTML - Convert, View, Edit a Word For Windows Document

LAB: Test Drive HTML Authoring Utilities - You will test drive several contemporary Authoring tools comparing interface and features.

VIII. BUILDING THE LINKS: THE CORE OF YOUR SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION
Schedule: Day Two 3:15 - 5:00

What are you going to point to?
Programmatic power behind the pages
Creating dynamic links to other programs
Techniques for creating nabbed images for highly polished pages
Using mapped images - Client Side & Server Side

Where do graphics come from? Build or Borrow
How to manipulate those images and link them to specific information
Discover URLs to sites that contain tools for HTML writers and graphics tools for creating imagemaps

LAB: Construction of a Web Page: You will build a Web page that uses your knowledge of HTML and utilities.

LAB: Using Mapedit to gather image map data

DAY THREE

TOP | INTRODUCTION | DAY ONE | DAY TWO | DAY THREE

9:00 - 9:15 Review of Day Two

IX. CAPTURING DATA AND TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR WEB PRESENCE
CGI - The Common Gateway Interface:

Schedule: Day Three 9:15 - 10:30 / 10:45-12:00

Introduction to the power of Programming
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
Choosing a development language
Overview of programming method
Web Publishing as an extension of the traditional programming environment
Visual Basic and the CGI
Writing CGI Applications in HTMLScript/Miva
Forms processing
Database Input & Output - Building dynamic pages
JAVAScript, JAVA, and other scripting languages
New Vendor offerings

LAB: Exercise in forms processing: You will write a Web Page to capture and store user demographic information. Gain knowledge of the mechanics of capturing data from your website

X. ONGOING MAINTENANCE
Schedule: Day Three 1:00 - 2:00

Set up and manage log files
Keeping the right statistics:

How many hits are you getting
Where are they coming from?
What are they looking at?
Analyzing the results - and acting on them

Are there procedural standards for regular maintenance?
Techniques for changing and for upgrading content on a regular basis
Tips for maintaining a stable site
Finding and fixing link-related errors
Confirming the integrity of your links for optimal performance
Verifying your HTML syntax of documents
What tools are on the horizon to make your job easier?

XI. IDENTIFYING AND COMBATING SECURITY RISKS
Schedule: Day Three 2:00 - 3:00

Where do your vulnerabilities lie?
Thwarting bugs, snoops and questionable characters
Firewall models
User authentication: how can you restrict access to only certain users?
How can RSA encryption serve you?
Where on the Net can you find the latest information on security?
Setting up automated procedures to

Routinely scan systems
Monitor users activities

Countering the threat to corporate resources from attacks by hackers
How can your access provider help with security?
Setup a firewall to limit services accessible from within the organization

XII. Other Labs
Schedule: Day Three 3:15 - 5:00

Trace IP Routing using Trumpet HOP
Bandwidth considerations - Traffic Jams on the I.S.H.
Download and Upload using FTP
You already know pkzip, right?
REVIEW

2007 Class Schedule
July 16-19	Kotzebue, Alaska	World Wide Web
July 22-25	Kotzebue, Alaska	eCommerce
TBA	Point Barrow, AK	eCommerce
TBA	Point Barrow, AK	PC-Repair

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