DBS - Advanced Diploma in Web Development

LionelNashe

Hi folks,

Dublin Business School offer two courses in Web Design & Web Development.
Searching around on the forums here, the more basic Diploma in Web Design gets nothing but bad reviews. So I am going to continue to learn the basic stuff from books etc, and maybe do their second course, the Advanced Diploma in Web Development, at a later stage.

But what do people think of the contents, below. Are these relevant to what is actually used to build websites? Is it comprehensive?

Thanks

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Advanced Diploma in Web Development

This course will teach participants how to program both client and server-side scripting and integrate with Web Server and Database Technologies when constructing websites. It provides the techniques used in implementing and supporting web server services. This course requires strong commitment and involves extensive project work on behalf of each student.

On completion of the course students will be competent in building secure database driven websites, incorporating search engines and shopping carts, using a Microsoft Web Server and a variety of different technologies.

Students are expected to have a high standard in computer applications such as MS Word, MS Excel, with a keen interest in programming. A sound knowledge of HTML and Macromedia Dreamweaver is required. Some knowledge of Fireworks is also assumed. Access to a PC and the Internet is essential.


Course Content

• Web Server technology
• Client and Server-side programming
• Macromedia Dreamweaver Advanced: Forms, CSS
• Design criteria from the aesthetic and marketing perspective
• Database design and structure using Access and SQL
• Using PHP (Hypertext Pre-Processor) server-side scripting
• Scripting Languages
• Content Management Systems
• Search Engine Optimisation

John_Mc

LionelNashe wrote: »

Hi folks,

Dublin Business School offer two courses in Web Design & Web Development.
Searching around on the forums here, the more basic Diploma in Web Design gets nothing but bad reviews. So I am going to continue to learn the basic stuff from books etc, and maybe do their second course, the Advanced Diploma in Web Development, at a later stage.

But what do people think of the contents, below. Are these relevant to what is actually used to build websites? Is it comprehensive?

Thanks

---

Advanced Diploma in Web Development

This course will teach participants how to program both client and server-side scripting and integrate with Web Server and Database Technologies when constructing websites. It provides the techniques used in implementing and supporting web server services. This course requires strong commitment and involves extensive project work on behalf of each student.

On completion of the course students will be competent in building secure database driven websites, incorporating search engines and shopping carts, using a Microsoft Web Server and a variety of different technologies.

Students are expected to have a high standard in computer applications such as MS Word, MS Excel, with a keen interest in programming. A sound knowledge of HTML and Macromedia Dreamweaver is required. Some knowledge of Fireworks is also assumed. Access to a PC and the Internet is essential.


Course Content

• Web Server technology
• Client and Server-side programming
• Macromedia Dreamweaver Advanced: Forms, CSS
• Design criteria from the aesthetic and marketing perspective
• Database design and structure using Access and SQL
• Using PHP (Hypertext Pre-Processor) server-side scripting
• Scripting Languages
• Content Management Systems
• Search Engine Optimisation

Seems pretty comprehensive, and I'm sure if you applied yourself you would really benefit from it. However, the only server side scripting language I see there is PHP. They should really be showing you the alternatives to it as well, and letting you make your own mind up on which scripting language to use.

That's the way I was taught in U.L anyway