| dc.description.abstract | In the drive towards a truly Paperless Office, a web-enabled database is seen as the most
viable solution to the challenges facing the Department ofInformation. The developer
therefore analyzed, designed, developed, and implemented a Database - driven web site
for text, graphics and photographs.
The database and its supporting tools would allow a user, equipped with a standard web
browser, to query, view and access selected text based on keywords, searches, etc.
The Internet and World Wide Web will enable users to do research as well as the
distribution of information through information systems. The Web has become
increasingly more complex, linking many databases and allow for the integration of
information on a number of different levels by creating dynamic Web pages.
The developer developed a server-side database hosted on the web site URL
kenyanewsagncy.go.ke. The design is extensibility so that in the future, images and videos
of transit/persistent related facilities could be added, integrating the system to a fully
functional Multimedia Database Management System (MMDBMS). Web casting can
also be added.
The major challenge to the database -driven website is the updating of the content to
keep the many expected users hooked up to the website as content is king and without
juicy content the usefulness of the whole project will be injeopardy. | en |
