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Programme Title - BTEC Higher National Diploma in Computing
Unit Number and Title - Unit 10- Web Design and Development
Assignment Title - Online Library Management System
Unit Learning Outcomes:
1. Explain server technologies and management services associated with hosting and managing websites.
2. Categorise website technologies, tools and software used to develop websites.
3. Utilise website technologies, tools and techniques with good design principles to create a multipage website.
4. Create and use a Test Plan to review the performance and design of a multipage website.
Assignment Brief -
Borrowing books, returning books or viewing the available books at the Library of the Lowa State University is currently done manually.
Online Library Management System supports to overcome the above-mentioned problems. This system would be used by members who may be students or professors of that University to check the availability of the books and borrow the books., The librarian can update the member details and the book lending details.
Online Library Management System will include the following information.
- The librarian, students and the professors can register and login to the system.
- Any of the above users can update their profile details including the password.
- The authorized users can reserve a book for 24hours.
- The authorized users can check book availability.
- The librarian can check the member status and update the lending details (If the book is for the lending).
- The system allows the Librarian to create the books catalog, add/delete books and maintain the books catalog.
- The librarian can update the book return details.
- The librarian can calculate the fine for the late returns if necessary.
- The users can search the books according to the categories (Novels, Frictions, etc.).
Task 1 - Server technologies and management services associated with hosting and managing websites
1.1 Differentiate the communication protocols, server hardware, operating systems and web server software with regards to designing, publishing and accessing a website.
1.2 Define the types of DNS and the uses of it, with clarifications on how domain names are structured.
1.3 Analyze the effect of search engines on website performance. Provide evidence-based support for improving a site's index value and rank through search engine optimization.
1.4 Identify and explain the common web development technologies and frameworks. Explain the tools and techniques chosen to the web application and hence justify, by giving reasons, why a web application is suitable for the given scenario.
Task 2 - Categories website technologies, tools and software used to develop websites
2.1 Define the relationships between front-end and back-end website technologies and explain how the front-end and the back-end relate to presentation and application layers.
2.2 Critically compare the different between online website creation tools and custom-built sites. Consider Followings: design flexibility, performance, functionality, User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI).
2.3 Compare and contrast the tools and techniques available to design and develop a custom-built web Applications.
Task 3 - Utilize website technologies, tools and techniques with good design principles to create a multipage website
3.1 Design a suitable web application solution for the given scenario. Provide evidences of the design, multipage website supported with fidelity wireframes and a full set of client and user requirements. Use your design document with appropriate principles, standards and guidelines to produce a branded, multipage website supported with realistic content.
Note - Synthesize client and the server-side functionalities in the proposed design.
3.2 Implement the designed system using PHP, JS and MySQL. Screenshots of important code lines with proper comments and user interfaces filled with sample data must be attached to the documentation. Apply a database design for the proposed system and provide the well normalized database design of the proposed system.
3.3 Critically evaluate the web design and development process against yourdesign document and analyse any technical challenges you faced in development.
Task 4 - Create and use a Test Plan to review the performance and design of a multipage website
4.1 Evaluate the Quality Assurance (QA) process and review how it was implemented during your design and development stages.
QA process is expected to discover design issues and development errors while testing a product's user interface (UI) and gauging the user experience (UX).
4.2 Critically evaluate the results of your Test Plan and include a review of the overall success of your multipage website; use this evaluation to explain any areas of success and provide justified recommendations for areas that require improvement.
4.3 Prepare a user documentation to properly guide the users of the implemented system.
Note: User documentation should be simple and understandable by anyone. Use screenshots and provide stepwise guidance.