BIT 4303 Advanced Web Assignment
BIT 4303 Advanced Web Assignment
BIT 4303 Advanced Web Assignment
Throughout the semester, you are going to apply to concepts learn during the lectures to a web-
based development project. Ideally, you will come up with your own idea for your project,
perhaps something that you have wanted to create in the past, any suitable idea that you may
have. To be suitable, your project should have the following characteristics:
Ideally, your project will be useful and interesting, and will give you the opportunity to keep
working on it after the course, to distribute it on a site such as source forge and have actual users,
thus acquiring further valuable experience and give you an excellent exposure.
Here are some examples of possible projects starting points (note that it is
likely that some variation of these projects do exist already).
Some cheap hosting offering do not give any access to log information. Sometimes too, the web
site owners find the logs too cumbersome to use, too difficult to read, too hard to setup. In this
project, you will provide a very simple interface to such web site owners (such as a link to an
image) to be included in the pages to track. For each such site, you will store the information and
create reports such as number of visits, time distribution, geographical maps showing the
location of the visitors for a given timeframe, the user-return rate etc.
Easy Virtual Hosting (to be done in collaboration with the prof, who keeps ownership)
The goal of this project is to have a web interface to easily create and maintain a set of
applications for a given domain name: mail box, email aliases, web site, Wiki etc. A small
amount of configuration for a new domain should be possible (such as perhaps a couple of
picture and some text for the web site)
International recipes
Build recipes from a database of ingredients and instructions. Let people search your recipes, and
display the instructions using their preferred unit measures.
Many internet users have several email addresses, which they sometimes forward from one to the
other, and/or which they check from time to time. In this project, you will develop an application
that will be configured to display in a single interface the emails coming from the different
sources. Your tool will connect to each email servers (POP3 based, IMPA based, and some
important, non standard ones as well) and aggregate the result either as a POP3 or IMAP based
mail server itself (in which case it will be accessed via a mail client) or you can even imagine
creating a small web-based mail client yourself.
A suite of tools around polls can be developed, going from simple, one question poll, to detailed
questionnaires with different formats for the answers (single/multiple choice, text, values etc..),
or even system allowing to setup a vote between different web sites (e.g. the best blog of the
month etc...). For this project, the goal is to have something that is extremely simple to setup for
the users, and display the results in an intuitive and useful manner.