REPORT ON
TRAINING PROGRAM
"Training for ENVIS Nodes on Web Designing and Database Management"
22ND TO 24TH APRIL, 2003, PUNE
Sponsored by
The Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India
( A World Bank assisted Environment Management )
Capacity Building Technical Assistance Project (EMCBTAP))
The third Training Programme on Web designing and Database
Management was held at Pune between 22nd April and 25th April, 2003. The
workshop was organized by Centre for Environment and Education, Pune.
A summarized report of the training program is given in the following
pages.
The training program started with a welcome address by
Ms. Sanskriti Menon, CEE, who cordially invited all the participants.
The training programme was inaugurated by Dr Indrani Chandrashekaran,
Director, Ministry of Environment and Forests. Dr. Chandrasekharan briefed
the participants about the activities of ENVIS. She informed that ENVIS
is now a family of 85 Nodes and 25 Centres and also insisted on the need
to create independent website by all the established nodes. Mr. Sanjay
Gupta, Information Scientist, ENVIS Secretariat made a presentation on
the Ministry of Environment and Forest website (http://envfor.nic.in).
Mr. Vimal Bisht, the architecture of ENVIS website highlighted the features
of the website (http://www.envis.nic.in). He said that he is open to suggestions
on the website.
Session I
Presentation on World Wide Web by Ms.Maitry.
Ms. Maitry from Quantum Technologies gave an introduction
to the World Wide Web, front page, different components of HTML and DHTML.
Ms. Maitry gave hands on training on how to design a web page using web
publishing / web authorizing tool. The session included:
Introduction to Front
page
Importing a site into
Front Page
Creating Hyperlinks
Dynamic HTML
Creating tables, frames
Inserting Symbols, changing
fonts, viewing HTML codes etc.
Once the basic knowledge of Web page designing was given, all the participants were asked to design the web page on the subject area allocated to them using graphics, tables, button and texts. Ms. Maitry cleared doubts of the participants on data processing.
Prateek Surana of Quantum Technologies made an interesting
presentation on how to design a website. He insisted that while designing
the webpage, the web designer has to keep in mind that there should be
a balance between the text and graphics to run the site faster. The home
page should be interactive enough such that as soon as the end user open
the home page, he/she get an idea of the content of the site.
Hands on training on basic design using HTML and DHTML continued.
Post lunch session began with hands on training on Adobe Photoshop. Images
and graphics play an important role while developing a web page. The following
basic elements of Adobe Photoshop were covered:
a) Introduction to Photoshop: an image editor
b) Functionality of tools in tool box and their properties
c) Editing of image using tool box
d) Concept and creation of layers, actions and history
e) Creation of canvas
f) Merging of different layers
Training on style sheet/image/flash/Java script had following components:
a) Introduction to style sheet
b) How to create style sheet
c) How to allocate different properties like font, color, size and other
attributes to tags
d) How to call style sheet from HTML files
e) Introduction to flash and how to make movie clip in flash
f) How to embed flash object in HTML
Basic programming by using Java script was covered. The session on Java
script covered introduction to variables and calling functions. The concept
of client site and server site was also covered.
The third day of the Training Programme was all about Database
Management. Sorting, updating, inserting, deleting and storing of data
are of prime importance in Database Management. All these topics were
covered in this session. Creation of table and Structured Query Language
were taught briefly. The participants had many queries on Data Processing
which were answered very efficiently.
