CPE3003

Topics in advanced web page design and development ( 6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL)

Leader: D Casey

Offered:
Peninsula SA-02 2005 (Day)
Peninsula Second semester 2005 (Flexible)
Peninsula Summer 2005 (Day)

Synopsis: Designing large-scale web sites. Web site organisational frameworks. Principles of visual design. Dynamic page design with scripting. An overview of an object oriented scripting language. Client side scripting. Applications for scripting in animation, data validation, data persistence and user interaction. XML overview. XML Schemas. Well-formed and valid documents. XML Schema language. Namespaces, schemas and validation. XSLT. XPath: patterns and expressions. Test expressions and functions.Layout and text formatting with CSS. XLink and XPointer. WML: as example of XML application, structure and syntax, implementation

Objectives: Designing large-scale web sites. Web site organisational frameworks. Principles of visual design. Dynamic page design with scripting. An overview of an object oriented scripting language. Client side scripting. Applications for scripting in animation, data validation, data persistence and user interaction. XML overview. XML Schemas. Well-formed and valid documents. XML Schema language. Namespaces, schemas and validation. XSLT. XPath: patterns and expressions. Test expressions and functions.Layout and text formatting with CSS. XLink and XPointer. WML: as example of XML application, structure and syntax, implementation

Assessment: Assignments 40% + Examination (3 hours) 60%

Prerequisites: CPE1001, CPE1003

Prohibitions: CPE2010