Through hands-on development, the server-side programming components will teach students the programming logic and methodology for developing code that will run separately from a client. To provide dynamic content students will learn database concepts including data modeling using relational and dimensional models, and programmatic database interaction.

By combining HTML to create the web page itself with a database and server-side programming using ASP.NET, students will be able to create dynamic sites such as basic message forums, content management systems, picture galleries etc.