Project Report for Design of a Website for Abacus Tours Uganda

ABSTRACT The speed at which tourism industry growing in Uganda, East Africa and Africa as a whole has created need to extensively advertise to the rest of the world through internet based advertising. This project therefore was to develop a web solution for Abacus tours Uganda. Our study has established that unlike all other forms of advertising (Electronic and print media and word of mouth), the internet based advertising commands a wider coverage is more appealing to the user and is less expensive than the rest. This report presents some functional and non functional requirements for this system to operate fully as well as enable anyone understand some basics of web site development. The report also presents series of conceptualisation, navigation schemes together with the logical structure reflected by this website in a detailed manner.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover page

DEDICATION

APPROVAL

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iv

ACRONYMS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACT

CHAPTER ONE

1.1 INTRODUCTION

1 .2 Problem statement

1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT

1 .3.1 General objective of the project

1.3.2 Specific Objectives

1.4 PURPOSEOF PROJECT

1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROJECT 2

CHAPTER TWO 3

LITERATURE REVIEW 3

2.1 THE INTERNET USAGE IN UGANDA 3

2.2 THE WORLD WIDE WEB 5

2.3 WEB ACCESSIBILITY 6

2.4 WEB BROWSER 7

2.5 WEB PAGE 7

2.5.1 Creating a web page 8

2.5.2 Elements of a Web Page 8

2.6 MARK UP LANGUAGE 9

26 1 THE HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE (HTML) 10

2.6.2 EXTENSIBLE HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE 10

2.6.3 XHTML- EXTENSIBLE HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE 11

2.6.4 CASCADING STYLE SHEET 11

2.7 WEB BASED ADVERTISING 12

CHAPTER THREE 13

METHODOLOGY 13

3.1 Data Collection Techniques 13

3.1 .1 Secondary information 13

3.1.2 Primary data 13

3.2 PROJECT DESIGN COMPONENT 14

3.2.1 Design Component 14

3.2.2 Description of the Website 14

3.3 WEB SITEMAP 15

3.4 Development Guidelines 15

CHAPTER FOUR 17

SYSTEMS STUDY, INVESTIGATION AND ANALYSIS 17

4.1 Status of the current system 17

4.1 . I Problem with our current system I 7

4.2 FULFILLED REQUIREMENTS 17

4.2.1 Userrequirements 17

4.3 NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS 18

4.3.1 Performance Requirements 18

4.3.2 Security Requirements 18

4.3.3 Software Quality Attributes 18

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4.4 SYSTEMS REQUIREMENTS .19

4.4.1 Hardware requirements 19

4.4.2 Software requirements 19

4.5 INTERFACE AND FUNCTIONALITY 19

4.5.1 Accessibility 19

4.5.2 Maintenance 20

4.6 Conceptualization of web solution for ABACUS Uganda 20

4.7 Design Layout for different pages 21

4.8 Links and Navigation 21

CHAPTER FIVE 22

OUTLOOK OF SOME THE PAGES IN THIS WEB SITE 22

5.1 THE COVER PAGE 22

5.2 THE HOME PAGE 22

5.3 ABOUT US PAGE 23

5.4 CONTACT US PAGE 23

5.5 SERVICES 24

5.6 ACCOMMODATION 24

5.7 FAQ 25

5.8 THE QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARKS 25

5.9 UGANDA TOUR PAGE 26

5.10 BWINDI NATIONAL PARK PAGE 26

CHAPTER SIX: DISCUSSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 27

6.1 DISCUSSION 27

6.2 Limitations 27

6.3 Recommendations 27

REFERENCES 28

APPENDIXES 29

APPENDIX A: CODE BEHIND THE COVER PAGE 29

APPENDIX B: CODE BEHIND THE HOME PAGE 30

APPENDIX C: CODE BEHIND CONTACT US PAGE 32

APPENDIX D: CODE BEHiND ABOUT US PAGE 39

APPENDIX E: CODE BEHIND SERVISES PAGE 41

APPENDIX F: CODE BEHIND FAQ PAGE 44