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Netskills-News Update, Issue 41 NETSKILLS UPDATE * NETSKILLS UPDATE * NETSKILLS UPDATE Issue: 41 Date: 5 January 2001 >>>From the Netskills Team<<< In this issue: Happy New Year from Netskills Team Changes to Our Web Site Training Module of the Month Training Module Updates ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 1. Happy New Year from Netskills Team The Netskills team would like to wish everyone a very happy and prosperous 2001. Netskills will be as busy as usual throughout 2001 and details of our forthcoming workshops in Aberdeen, Newcastle, Manchester, Oxford, Belfast and Swansea can be found at: http://www.netskills.ac.uk/workshops/forthcoming.html Topics covered include: Authoring on the World Wide Web Content Management on the Web Databases on the Web JavaScript FrontPage WebCT 2. Changes to Our Web Site Those of you who have visited the Netskills web site recently, will have noticed that we have made a few changes to the layout and structure of the site and updated some of the information. If you haven't seen the new layout check it out at: http://www.netskills.ac.uk/ 3. Training Module of the Month **Databases on the Web with Active Server Pages** Web authors and database users are becoming increasingly aware of the massive potential for integrating web and database technologies. There are many practical uses such as providing cost-efficient information services or intranets, revitalising legacy database systems, as a means of managing web-based information, and for electronic commerce. This module investigates the use of Active Server Pages as a means of connecting databases to the web. You will write ASPs to display dynamic output from a database, write parameter queries allowing users to search ODBC databases, write ASPs to allow the user to enter a record into a database via the web and investigate how to use Microsoft ASPs to connect to ODBC databases This module will be of interest to anyone involved in publishing information via the Internet or an intranet, or people involved in database development who wishes to consider integrating web interfaces. In order to gain the most from this workshop, participants will need to have a basic understanding of: HTML (including the concept of HTML forms) how to publish files to a web server relational databases e.g Microsoft Access the following terms: 'table', 'field', 'record','key' the concept of SQL (details not necessary) 4. Training Module Updates The following Training Modules have been updated this month and will be released on Monday 8th Jan 2001 Becoming a Search Engine Power User New Technologies for Smarter Searching Multimedia on the Web Using the Internet for Teaching and Learning Tools for Supporting Teaching and Learning Web Page Images Explored Databases on the Web with ASPs Using Java Applets ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- >From the Netskills Team Netskills News Updates are issued on a regular basis to keep you up to date with what is happening at Netskills. Netskills Updates are available at the URL: http://www.netskills.ac.uk/news/update-archive/index.html Contact Details: Email:[log in to unmask] Post: Netskills University Computing Service University of Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU Tel:0191 222 5000 Fax:0191 222 5001 URL:http://www.netskills.ac.uk/ Netskills Quality Internet Training is partly funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee of the Higher and Further Education Funding Councils. Netskills is based in the Computing Service at Newcastle University. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ______________________________________________ Rod Cullen Netskills - http://www.netskills.ac.uk Tel: 0191 222 5002