The course begins with a general treatment of web servers, connecting to the internet, web security and web administration. Topics include installing IIS, Microsoft's Index Server, and supporting Active Server. Students create an intranet using Microsoft's Internet Information Server and web pages using Microsoft's FrontPage. This course focuses on building interactive web pages using Java, JavaScript, Perl, and VBScript. It also introduces the student to Microsoft Visual InterDev.
Emphasis is placed on database connectivity.
The course also introduces techniques for building multimedia web pages. This course uses Microsoft Access and Microsoft SQL Server to introduce the design and implementation of database systems. Implementation includes creation, indexing, querying, referential integrity, form and report generation, graphing, and programming in the application language. The course also teaches Microsoft SQL Server system administration to include installing and configuring SQL Server, managing security and database files, transferring data, backing up and restoring databases, automating administrative tasks, planning, setting up and managing replication.