
Webmaster Certification Program - WM106 Syllabus
Spring 2008
Online Resources & Tutorials:
March 31
- Introductions & Course Overview
- Unix & HTML Review: An Exercise
- Restricting Web Site Access
- Password Protection
- Limiting Access via Remote Address
- Custom Error Pages
- In-Class Exercise
- Homework: Create a set of Custom Error Pages for the
web site you designed in WM102
April 7
- Working with Perl Scripts
- Matt's Script Archive
- The bin directory
- tar & gzip
- Modifying & Installing Scripts
- Homework: Install Matt's Random Image script
in your WM106 directory. You can copy the
source file from my directory:
~arlyn/Matts/rand_image.tar.gz
April 14
- Perl Scripts Continued
- Debugging scripts
- More complicated installations
- Managing scripts that allow input & updates
- Homework: Install Matt's Guestbook script in your
WM106 directory. You can copy the source file from
my directory: ~arlyn/Matts/guestbook.tar.gz
April 21
- Server Side Includes
- Environmental Variables
- Dynamic Page Generation
- Homework: Modify the page(s) from last week's assignment
to display one set of links if I (24.218.254.251 or
arlyn.hsd1.ma.comcast.net) visit the page and another if
if you do.
April 28
- Metatags
- Javascripts
- Homework: TBA
May 5
- Beginning CSS
- Homework: TBA
May 12
- In-Class Exercise
- Discussion & Comments