Monash University Handbooks 2008

CPE3003 - Topics in advanced web page design and development

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate Faculty of Information Technology

Leader: Janet Fraser

Offered

Caulfield Second semester 2008 (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%

Contact hours

12 hrs/week, comprising: 2 hrs/week topic material coverage from the u-learning environment; 2 hrs/week week working on exercises and quizzes; 8 hrs/week private study to review topic materials, explore supplementary unit resources and complete practical work and assignments.

Prerequisites

CPE1001, CPE1003

Prohibitions

CPE3002, CSE2030, FIT2028, (Unit translation: CPE2010), FIT2030

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