Internet Courses > CIW Foundations Training Course

This course is aimed at Web Developers who wish to develop their skills to enable them to create, run and update websites. It provides a foundation in Network and Internet technologies and goes on to cover web authoring; web, mail & e-commerce services; and security.

This course is also suited to those who wish to take the Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW) Foundations Exam 1D0-410. Passing of this exam leads to CIW Status and is the first step to other CIW certfications such as Master CIW Designer and Master CIW Administrator.

Delegates should be familiar with the Internet to the level provided by the PTR Practical Internet course.

Topics covered on the 5 day CIW Foundations course

Introduction To Networking

• Network Categories
• Network Topologies
• Network Operating Systems

The Internet

• How The Internet Works
• Connecting to the Internet
• Internet Protocols
• Domain Name System (DNS)

LANs & WANs

• IEEE LAN Standards
• WAN Standards
• Transmission Media
• Transmission Types

The OSI Reference Model

• The Reference Model
• Frames & Packets
• Networking Protocols & The OSI Model
• Mapping the OSI/RM
• Choosing & Combining Protocols

The TCP/IP Protocol Suite

• Requests for Comments
• Internet Architecture
• Routing
• Port Numbers
• Internet Addressing
• Subnet Masks
• Normal TCP/IP Desktop Configurations
• Diagnostic Tools for Internet Troubleshooting

Internetworking Servers

• Server Implementation
• Content Servers
• Performance Servers
• Database Servers
• Mirrored Servers
• Popular Server Products

Web Servers & Databases

• Databases
• Introduction to Database Gateways for Web Servers
• Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
• Server Application Programming Interfaces (SAPIs)
• Server Side Scripting Technologies
  • Javascript
  • ASP
  • PHP
  • HTML
  • Java & Java Servlets
  • JSP
  • ColdFusion
• Database Connectivity
  • ODBC
  • JDBC

Using the World Wide Web

• Evolution of the World Wide Web
• Web Browser Software
• Using Browsers to Access Web Pages
• Customizing your Browser
• Images & Web Browsers
• Wireless Web Protocols

Web Search Engines

• Search Engines
• Directories
• Ranking Systems
• Getting a Website Listed
• Search Indexes
• Search Techniques
• Search Tools

Using E-Mail and Other Clients

• Electronic Mail
• Other Internet Clients
  • FTP
  • Newsgroups
  • Telnet

Media & Active Content

• Objects & Active Content
• Types of Browser Plug-Ins
• Additional Media File Formats
• Image File Formats

Internet Security

• What is Security?
• The Cracker Process
• Types of Attacks
• Defending Your Network
• Firewalls
• Defending Your Computer
• Defending Your Transmitted Data

E-Commerce Fundamentals

• Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce)
• Copyrights, Licensing & Trademarks
• Project Management

Basic HTML

• What is HTML?
• HTML Coding
• HTML Horizontal Rules & Graphical Elements
• HTML Hyperlinks

Advanced HTML

• HTML Tables
• HTML Forms
• HTML Image Techniques
• HTML Frames
• Graphical User Interface HTML Editors
• HTML Extensions
  • Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
  • Javascript
  • Dynamic HTML (DHTML)
  • Document Object Model (DOM)
  • Extensible HTML (XHTML)
  • Extensible Markup Language (XML)

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