Web Technology

What you'll learn

The key areas this subject covers, mapped to the official curriculum.

• How the web works: URLs, HTTP, clients and servers
• HTML5 structure, forms and multimedia
• CSS styling, layout and responsive design
• Client-side scripting with JavaScript and the DOM
• Server-side programming with PHP and MySQL, plus AJAX

Course units

The structured path through this subject.

1. 1

   Introduction

   Foundations of the web: how pages travel from server to browser, what URLs and HTTP mean, and who sets the standards.

   5 topics · 5 lessons available

2. 2

   Hyper Text Markup Language

   Structure and meaning on the web: documents, text, lists, links, images, tables, forms and HTML5.

   5 topics · 5 lessons available

3. 3

   Cascading Style Sheets

   Presenting the page: selectors, the box model, colors, typography, modern layout and responsive design.

   5 topics · 5 lessons available

4. 4

   Client Side Scripting with JavaScript

   Behaviour in the browser: JavaScript language basics, the DOM, events, and client-side form validation.

   5 topics · 5 lessons available

5. 5

   AJAX and XML

   Data on the web: XML structure, namespaces and DTDs, and asynchronous page updates with AJAX, XMLHttpRequest and JSON.

   5 topics · 5 lessons available

6. 6

   Server Side Scripting using PHP

   Dynamic pages on the server: PHP basics, forms and superglobals, sessions and cookies, and integration with MySQL.

   5 topics · 5 lessons available