What Is the Project Case Study?

In Part II, you'll be presented with the Center Park School project, where you'll be asked to build a functional, feature-rich Web site for this made-up private secondary school.

By working through the project, you will:

• Address the larger design issues of a Web site. While this book is not about project management, it would be foolish to present you with a "real-world" project, and not address the process and procedural planning issues that must be dealt with in this arena. Again, you'll play the role of Web designer, working with the school administrators to ensure the final project is reflective of their requirements for each specific "customer"—parents, teachers and students.

• Build on fundamental JavaScript skills from Part I. In Part I we tried to avoid presenting you rudimentary information that you have little chance of using practically in your own work. We wanted to give you the real-world tools that you could turn around and use in a real world project like the Center Park project. The goal here is to show you JavaScript "in action" and in a format—the Center Park project—that is functional and practical for your study.

• Develop an understanding of how different functional aspects of JavaScript work together. If you work through the chapters of Part I in sequential order, you'll see how one functional component of JavaScript integrates with another to build larger, more complex (and interesting) Web applications. The Center Park school information has been presented in the same way. By gradually building the functionality of the site from the "ground up," you'll get to see all of the JavaScript features come together to create something functional, professional, and maybe even exciting!