Web Technologies: Key Fundamentals

Objectives

To explain the basics of Web technologies and their evolution through a high-level overview of the key terms and concepts, languages, architectures and tools.

Targeted audience

Corporate managers, communications managers and project managers.

Content

• Fundamental Web concepts: URL, HTTP and HTML
• The Web development cycle: from initial requirements to a web site in production
• The ideal architecture for web applications
• Languages and technologies for the browser: HTML, XHTML and HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Document Object Model (DOM), asynchronous requests (AJAX)
• Client layer frameworks: JavaScript, CSS, HTML5
• Mobile applications: web vs. native
• XML for data exchange in heterogeneous environments
• Server-side technologies: ASP, ASP.NET, Web Services, Java servlets, JSP, EJB, PHP, Ruby on Rails, etc.
• Web site development tools
• Open-source solutions
• Introduction to E-commerce