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About
the Website
Utilizing the latest in web technology, the Unionville High School webpage provides the latest information about school activities to students, parents, and faculty. |
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During the creation
of this site, the following technologies
were used:
- Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
- Macromedia Fireworks MX
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Acrobat
- PHP
- MySQL
- CSS 1.0
- SmartFTP
- phpMyAdmin
- HP OfficeJet 710 Scanner
- Sony Digital Camera
Approximately
one hundred hours of time were spent creating
the Unionville High School webpage. This design
was originally developed for the Pennsylvania
High School Computer fair by a three member
team; Vince Ying on design, Matt Majarian
on content, and Greg Domzalski primarily on
the PHP code.
The general design
of the web pages was drafted with a combination
of Macromedia's WYSIWYG IDE and hand coding
PHP, while the images were created in either
Macromedia Fireworks or Adobe Photoshop. PHP
was then added to the pages to interface with
a mySQL database which would provide dynamically
generated content for sections such as news
and the course selection.
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Page Information |
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As a public site
which will be accessed by a variety of computers,
the Unionville High School website was designed
with cross platform and browser compatibility
in mind. Therefore much more work was involved
in the technical aspects of the design with
the sites just targeting one resolution, browser,
and operating system. The website was entirely
layed out using tables instead of newer technologies
such as layers or the CSS2 standard because
of compatibility with older browsers, and
was optimized to display normally at 800x600
and above resolutions and to be functional
at 640x480. Cross platform testing involved
checks on Internet Explorer 5, Mozilla .98,
Netscape 6.2, and Opera 6.01 for Windows Me
and XP, and Mozilla, Opera 6 TP3, and Konqueror
for Linux, in all of which the page displays
perfectly. There are minor issues in the Netscape
4 series of browsers caused by limitations
in its display of nexted tables, however all
content is just as accessible as in a modern
browser and the only thing lost is some of
the visual appeal.
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