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EPL602 Foundations of Web Technologies jQuery Mobile News Site Presented by: Christodoulos Michael Dimitris Stokkos Evagoras Charalambous Nikos Tsouris. The Goal. Create a mobile website that has funny and weird news Key Features News, Videos and Pictures
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EPL602 Foundations of Web TechnologiesjQuery Mobile News SitePresented by: Christodoulos MichaelDimitris Stokkos Evagoras Charalambous Nikos Tsouris
The Goal • Create a mobile website that has funny and weird news • Key Features • News, Videos and Pictures • Articles sorted by timestamp or by category • User interaction with the site, e.g “Like” an article. • Accessible by smartphone regardless or Operating System
Tools (1) • jQuery Mobile • Mobile framework for jQuery. • Unified, HTML5-based user interface system for all popular mobile device platforms. • Built on the jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. • Lightweight code is built with progressive enhancement. • Has a flexible, easily themeable design.
Tools (2) • MySQL • MySQL is a very popular open source database. • High performance, high reliability and ease of use. • Runs on many platforms. • More than adequate for our needs. • FREE!
Tools (3) • PHP • It is a general-purpose server-side scripting language. • Can be embedded into an HTML source document. • Code is interpreted by a Web Server. • Very wide spread. • Has been around for a while, a lot of support available.
Tools (4) • ColdFusion • Platform developed by Adobe. • Rapid application development platform. • Railo provides an open source version of ColdFusion. • Simplified database access. • Client and server cache management. • CFML: ColdFusion Markup Language • Its tag syntax closely resembles HTML • Its script syntax resembles JavaScript
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