HNC/HND Business

Table of Contents

1. Business Accounting
2. Economic Issues: An Introduction
3. Marketing: An Introduction
4. Managing People and Organisations
5. Using Software Applications Packages
6. Information Technology Applications Software
7. Analysing and Presenting Complex Communication
8. Business Culture and Strategy
9. Business: Graded Unit 1
10. Business Law: An Introduction
11. Economics 1
12. Economics 2
13. Preparing Financial Forecasts
14. Information and Communication Technology in Business
15. Behavioural Skills for Business
16. Statistics for Business
17. Business: Graded Unit 2
18. Business: Graded Unit 3
19. Business Contractual Relationships
20. Publishing on the Internet
21. eCommerce: Introduction
22. eCommerce: Systems
23. Corporate Information Systems

Publishing on the Internet

This unit is about producing pages for publishing on the World Wide Web using appropriate hardware and software.

The first outcome relates to the exploration of the World Wide Web to discover the good and bad characteristics of existing Web pages. The aim of this outcome is to give students some appreciation of the good (and not so good) features of contemporary Web pages from a technical and design perspective.

The second outcome relates to the hardware and software facilities that can be used to create a Web page. Appropriate hardware relates to a range of input devices that can be used to digitise information such as keyboards, scanners and digital cameras. Software includes a variety of Web creation tools such as graphics programs, HTML editors and HTML generators.

The third outcome involves students in creating Web pages using hardware and software. There is no requirement re. the range of hardware and software that students use in constructing their Web pages but a variety of hardware and software should be employed in this exercise. So, for example, it would not be appropriate for students to produce simple, text-only, static Web pages without

the complexity of sound or graphics or digitising devices.

The fourth outcome relates to the uploading of Web pages to the World Wide Web. Once the student has created a number of linked pages, s/he must transfer them to a Web server. This server may be local or remote. The critical aspect if that the student is aware of (and can apply) the procedure to transfer the pages to the appropriate server.

The final outcome relates to contemporary developments in on-line publishing. The stimulus to change must be described (performance criterion a). So, for example, in describing the advanced on Web page security, students must also explain the need for this development.