Capstone Project : Team #6

October 4th,2007

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Team Information

Instructor : Dr. Kwok-Bun Yue

Mentors : Dr. Kwok-Bun Yue Mr. Dilhar De Silva

Team members : Shital Parikh Sandeep Chavva Pareddy Karunakar Reddy Srividya Subbiah

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Table of Contents

• Development Team Shital

• Problem Analysis Shital

• Project Specification Vidya

• Project Abstract Vidya

• Design & Implementation Constraints Vidya

• Functionality of future system Reddy

• Use case Diagram Reddy

• Project Time Line Reddy

• Prototype Design Sandeep

• Team Progress Sandeep

• Expected Deliverables Sandeep

• Activities Ahead Sandeep

• Conclusion Sandeep

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Development Team

Team Leader : Shital

Webmaster : Karunakar

Programmer : Karunakar, Sandeep, Shital & Vidya

Technical Writer : Karunakar, Sandeep, Shital & Vidya

Architecture Designer : Sandeep, Shital &Vidya

DBA : Karunakar, Sandeep, Shital & Vidya

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Problem Analysis

Shortcomings of the current website www.goscat.com

• Lacks organized structure

• Has redundant links

• Information accessible to the public

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Problem Analysis (Conti..)

Important functionalities of the existing website:

• Time standards

• Meet and event Calendar

• Practice Schedule

• Form for registering into the team

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Problem Analysis (Conti..)

Meet and Event Schedule - Things to improve• Not frequently updated• No time and location• No contact information• Not clear for a new or general user

Practice Schedule• Not show for a year• Information is not clear

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Problem Analysis (Conti..)

Current website was built traditionally with HTML editors

Website has limited capability and contents

Difficult to navigate and maintain

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Project Specification

The project aims to replace the existing website www.goscat.com using Joomla

Joomla is a popular open source content management software (CMS)

Advantage of CMS : • Collaborative creation of website

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Project Specification (Conti..)

Anatomy of CMS

• Content Creation

• Content Management

• Publishing

• Presentation

About Joomla

• Based on PHP

• Similar to Mambo

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Project Specification (Conti..)

Design and Layout are using XHTML and CSS

Apart from the installation, they have a variety

of extensions

Easy to Installation and maintain

Collaboration

incorporation of social networking features

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Project Abstract

New website will incorporate details of the old

website and include the social networking

features.

Our project ends into two research papers :

• First paper – Is it desirable to build a social networking site as a

team project in CS/CIS education?

• Second paper – How to build a domain specific social Networking

site using CMS?

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Design and Implementation Constraints

Joomla 1.0.13 - Stable version

Apache 1.3

MySQL 4.0.2

PHP 4.3.11

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Functionality of the Future System

The website will have the following functionalities :

• Users to create account

• Rate contents

• Upload Videos and pictures

• To have blog and chat sessions

• RSS based news feeds

• Google maps for swim meet directions

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Use case Diagram

Executive/Manager/ Administrator

View Specific Swimmer’s Profile

Check In/Out

Public/Guest

View/download all Videos/Pictures

Maintain template design,Global configuration

Add New Articles

Read Messages, Mass Mail

Subscribe/Login

View Event Schedules, Meet Entry Calendar

View Contact Information /Map to pools

Version Control

Rate Contents

FAQs

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Use case Diagram (Conti..)

Login/ Logout

Swimmers

View News Feeds/ Event Schedules, Meet Entry Calendar

Rate contents

Post to Blogs

View / Upload Pictures/Videos

View Nutrition articles/ Health Issues

View Swimmers News

Role of Parents

Benefits of Swimming

Child’s trainingParents

FAQs

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Use Case Diagram (Conti..)

Login/ Logout

View /Upload Pictures/Videos

Post to Blogs

Rate Contents

View Event Schedules, Meet Entry Calendar

View Nutrition articles/ Health Issues

View Coach Requirements

View Coach News

View Coach Information

View Olympic Related articles

View Sports Medicine

Coaches

Board Members

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Project TimeLine

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Prototype Design

Prototype Design

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Prototype Design

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Prototype Design

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Team Progress

Requirement analysis have been completed

Use case diagram have been completed

Installation is complete

Initial prototype of the future system has

been designed

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Expected Deliverables

Phase 1• UML 2.0 Analysis model using Visio and Prototype

Phase 2• UML 2.0 Design model using Visio and beta version of

the virtual community software

Phase 3• UML 2.0 Sequence Diagram and General Availability

version of the Virtual community software

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Activities Ahead

Currently we are implementing the website on the

local host, after this we will do it in a hosted site

Initial prototype will be improved

Remaining features and functionalities will be

incorporated

Content and capabilities of the website will be

improved

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Conclusion

Hence the future website developed using CMS will be:

• Easy to maintain

• Powerful

• Functional

• Flexible

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References

1. Bartz, Tonia , User Customization: Utilizing Content Management Systems to Efficiently Organize User Group Content, Summer 2006.

2. Websites:• www.Joomla.org• www.PHP.net• www.APACHE.org• www.MySQL.com• http://www.cpdservices.com/53.0.html