Friday, 23 January 2009

Nat Dip - Investigating Web Technologies

Rather like the reports, blog-posts or presentations you have produced for unit 104 (interactive media principles), you are now asked to do the same regarding web technologies. Read on for the specific details.

Criteria

This project will allow you to meet the P1 criteria:
  • Investigate into a range of relevant advanced web technologies

If you apply findings in this report to your development of your website in a future project, this will lead you towards M1 as well.

Project


Your current project requires that you produce a:

  • Report
  • Blog Article
  • Presentation
  • Video

about web technologies.

To begin with you should investigate and explain the following web technologies:


  • Web browsers
  • Worldwide web
  • Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
  • Servers
    - Local
    - Remote
    - File sharing
  • Web applications
    - Email
    - File and Video sharing
    - Ecommerce
    - Social Networking

Before you are finished you also need to discuss the functions, features, application and user enhancement of current advanced technologies such as:

  • HTTP
  • FTP
  • HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
  • Extensible HTML (XHTML)
  • Dynamic HTML (DHTML)
  • Content control using cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
  • Cookies
  • JavaScript
  • Java
  • Server-side scripts
    - CGI
    - Perl
    - ASP
    - PHP
  • Client side interactive scripts
    - Javascript
  • Database driven web pages;
  • Flash (FLV, SWF)
  • Java

Remember, as you write about the above, you must discuss them in terms of:

  • Functions and features
    - What it can do
  • Application
    - Examples of what it is used for
  • User enhancement
    - How it can enhance the user experience
  • How can these be used to contribute to your own design work?
Recap

You can review the Web Technology presentation here:

5 comments:

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Anonymous said...

Perl is spelt as Per here, just a heads up =)

Also, I suppose Silverlight might be worth a mention? I wish this wasn't the case, though.

Anonymous said...

Oh, and activeX if that counts xD

I Teach Interactive said...

Thanks for the comments James. I left ActiveX out because it wasn't required by the curriculum, and hey, they have enough to deal with. I suspect Silverlight came out after the spec was approved too. But it doesn't appear to offer much that can't already be achieved by other means.

We will see if they make any headway against Adobe in due course.

Anonymous said...

It's early days, but I'd prefer an Internet that didn't require a hundred and one extensions and plug-ins to run correctly.