UNCA Athletic Website

Asako Tetsubayashi

May 2003

Advisor: Walt Turner

Currently, the UNCA Athletic website is updated manually through FTP program by Mr. Mike Gore.  He has knowledge about web languages; however, it is very inefficient to update the website manually in daily basis.  Also the automatically updated calendar should be added to the main page, for more convenience for students and other viewers to have most current information, quick and efficiently, without they have to go through to find the list of events under each sports (so if a person is interested in more than one sports? events, there are many pages and clicks to go through).

To generate the calendar, I thought the best way is to have the website partially database-driven and draw the information from database using ASP.  By doing so, the event calendar (weekly, requested by Mr. Gore) can be updated every week automatically.  This must be able to be done without making Mr. Gore to download, make changes and upload the database every time he makes the changes.  Through ASP pages, it is enable to update the information for calendar to database, without using FTP program, from anywhere (any computer that has internet access).

Also some of the information which is added or/and updated often can be edited through ASP pages as well, and all of the editing is done through the secured ASP pages ? it requires the administrator to log-in to be able to access any of the editing ASP pages.

I have left some of the pages as it is (HTML) because many pages in the website aren?t updated often, and it is just simpler for Mr. Gore to go in the edit by hand than through ASP (also it gives him more flexibility).  I have used HTML, ASP, Java-Script (for validation purpose) to create this new designed webpage, and everything is hand-coded using HTML-Editor (freeware). 

The project will be implemented in the real server space during the summer, since there will be so much information needed to be added to the database, and least visitors to the website during summer due to not normal school period.  For the display/presenting purpose, all the materials will be at http://asako.www2.dotnetplayground.com/web/index.html, and Administrator page will be at http://asako.www2.dotnetplayground.com/web/admin/login.asp .