You have recently built a static site and a dynamic site for your company. It was your boss, Kureeas Uboutek, who set you those tasks. She understood that you were new to web development and that you were learning on the fly. She saw this as an opportunity for both of you to learn and to build expertise within the organisation.To help her with her learning, she has asked that you prepare a report. This is a part of the email she sent you:
Thanks for your awesome work on those 2 sites. As we discussed, do now turn your attention to preparing that report, with a focus on The options that you explored and what you constructed Choices you would make in future developments and the things you would like to do if you had the time to improve the site.Your opinions about poorer and better approaches Where not obvious, an understanding about how the many pieces in the web technology jigsaw fit together.
Your Task
After class each week and while creating Assignment 1 (static site) and Assignment 2 (dynamic site),take notes. For full-marks you would cover each of the following points:
1. Hosting choices. Discuss a self-hosting option, using free web hosts compared with paid services, purchase of domain names.
2. A discussion on the costs of ownership and maintenance of web sites.
3. The purposes of CSS, JavaScript, HTML, PHP, and MySQL. Include a discussion on the advantages of writing CSS and JS in external files.
4. A discussion on popular CSS and JS libraries and frameworks like Bootstrap and Node.js.Include a discussion on trends and possibilities.
5. A discussion on browser support for newer HTML/CSS/JavaScript capabilities. Include examples relevant to today.
6. Options, imperatives, and challenges for presenting multimedia to clients. Discuss video,animation, images, accessibility, and copyright issues.
7. How to build your site into a mobile app.
8. IDE's and other web site development tools. Include a discussion on Notepad Dreamweaver, free templates, and online web site builders. Also include a discussion on WordPress.com compared with WordPress.org and options each give you for shifting your
site from one host to another.
9. A dozen common tactics for improving the ranking of your site in search engines like Google and Yahoo!, and Bing.
10. Options for generating money from your site.
11. UX and performance decisions you have made. Include a discussion on tools you can use to test your site's download speed and performance and how to optimise performance.
12. Considerations for protection of sensitive data from hacking and theft. Discuss hosting and coding issues.
General Requirements:
Your document should:
o Be addressed to your boss, Ms Kureeas Uboutek and be in the voice of an employee.
o Be a neat and professionally presented business report.
o Clearly express your ideas and be free from grammatical and spelling errors. It's easy to run an MS Word spell checker. Be sure to be in Australian English, not American.
o Not contain any reference to you being a student at Melbourne Polytechnic
o Include references for your sources, both in-text citations and a bibliography/references in an Appendix. These should be properly formatted usingHarvard notation.
o Sprinkle screenshots throughout to bring clarity and demonstrate the points you make.
