Session 9: Forms

Theme: Production
Session title: Forms
Time: Day 2 - Tuesday: 16:30-18:30, 20:00-22:00

Understand why we have forms on the web

Overview

Forms processors: CGI Forms, CGI(Perl), JavaScript, other ways to implement forms (free forms processor sites)...

Lecture

Demonstration

0:20

Sangkyung

Whiteboard

Internet-connected computer and video display.

Lecture notes

Password protection on the Web:

• Understand ways to password-protect web areas
• Know the pros and cons of each implementation

What is password protection?

Why is it important?

How to: CGI, JavaScript

Brief introduction to Unix commands

Troubleshooting

Lecture

Hands-on

1:00

Sangkyung

Moon

Whiteboard

Internet-connected computer and video display.

Webserver with CGI and FTP access.

Text editor

FTP client

Telnet

Lecture notes

Search engines:

• Understand how search engines work
• Know the pros and cons of each implementation

What are search engines? - access and retrieval

Why are search engines important?

Types of search engines - CGI, web robot, directories

Lecture

How to: identify a search engine, (demo installing in CGI), make it work on a website, customise templates.

0:40

Selenge

Sangkyung

Moon

Whiteboard

Internet-connected computer and video display.

Webserver with CGI and FTP access.

Text editor

FTP client

Telnet

Lecture notes

Subscribe to mailing list: Able to make a web-based mailing list subscription form

Types of mailing list

Demonstration setting up mhonarc mailing list web archive

Demonstration / hands on

EVENING SESSION

1:30

Pi

Whiteboard

Internet-connected computer and video display.

Webserver with CGI and FTP access.

Text editor

FTP client

Telnet

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