Multimedia And Website Design Segment 2 The design is over The building starts here!

Agenda For Remaining Weeks This week Next week Week 3 Week 4 Week 5,6,7 Dreamweaver and ASP Dreamweaver, ASP and cookies Dreamweaver and Coldfusion MX Flash MX and dynamic sites Support for assignment work

ASP – Active Server Pages ASP is the server side language supported by built in to Microsoft's IIS (Internet Information Services) web and application server This is bundled with Windows NT, XP Pro, 2000 and beyond High take up in industry Has been upgraded with the introduction of ASP.NET

Dreamweaver MX and ASP Dreamweaver MX supports many server technologies including –ASP/ASP.NET –JSP – Java Server Pages –PHP - PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, or Personal Home Page Tools –Macromedia’s ColdFusion More of that in a week or two –Compare popularity at overtakes_jsp_and_java_servlets.html overtakes_jsp_and_java_servlets.html overtakes_jsp_and_java_servlets.html

Application Programming Languages Each has benefits and drawbacks ASP/ASP.NET –Widely supported –Can be expensive to code/debug PHP –Usually used as part of LAMP systems (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) –open source so cheap to obtain –Needs to be tailored/lack of support?

Application Programming Languages - 2 JSP –Good language if Java skills are a strength –Platform agnostic –Not as widely used as ASP/PHP Coldfusion –Historically popular but less so since ASP –Powerful but easy to learn and code in

Lab Session Today Introduction to ASP in Dreamweaver MX Introduction to IIS Introduction to databases linked to the web

Your Storage Space In lab –Each machine in C1-2 (and open access) has IIS on it and you have access to the web folder - C:\Inetpub\wwwroot –I will give (temporary!) administrator rights during lessons for using IIS admin console You will also have access to your own student area on the Multimedia server

The Multimedia Server - web-01.cet.bolton.ac.uk/[acs username] Available internally and externally (using the VPN) via username] where [acs username] is your ACS student name Set up is –A Windows 2003 server –Windows Media Server –Runs IIS supporting ASP Coldfusion MX PHP –50MB of webspace for each student

Assignment 2 Your assignment will be delivered on this webspace and also on CD-R Still to be ratified but –You will have to build the application for Bolton Tourist Info –Front and back end to be designed, built and tested

Any Questions? You can ask now or contact