CHAPTER 1:
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Overview
This study focused on design and implementation of charity organization website. It describes the step-by-step process to developing and implementing the website for the organization. In today’s modern world, organizations that want to reach global audiences seize the advantage of internet technology to achieve their goal. Charity organizations also make use of this medium and technology to reach their online audience as well as potentials donors across the world to promote their course and to increase revenue by appealing to their online audience.
For a long lasting solution, a charity origination’s website that will stand taste of time would be designed and implemented using basic Programming Language such as HTML which is a Mark Up Language, CSS, and Java Script for the design and managing its contents.
As usage of the Internet is increasing, so are the programming languages and content management systems (CMS) for creating webpages. There is a wide range of different programming languages and CMSs to choose from, based on different kinds of frameworks and purpose of which the website is been designed.
A different approach to using a premade programming language and CMS is to create a better website, as Simpson (2005) pursued in his comparative study on a range of different programming languages and open-source CMSs. The categories are freely available systems on the market and the homemade CMSs to give the less experienced developer a clearer view of how programming languages works and how to use them to design and implement a modern website for organizations be it private, public or charity.
1.2 Background and Motivation
In the early days of the World Wide Web (WWW), websites were largely consisting of static pages. In those days, both the task of web designing, development and implementation laid entirely in the hands of the webmasters (Ceri & Bongio, 2000). Content writers were completely dependent on webmasters in order to deploy contents on the web pages. Nowadays, a very suitable solution for such problem is the programming languages and content management systems (CMS) that separate presentation from content and also enable the user to deploy and interact with text, image and other data on a web browser.
In his article, "Content Management and the Separation of Presentation and Content", Clark (2001), discusses the importance of web design and implementation (HTML and CSS combined) for contents as a baseline of web publishing, a technology development that offers a valuable solution to most web design problems and many more.
Programming Language and Content Management (CM) topics often cover a wide range of areas within digital technology. In fact, Miller, (2011), states that Programming Language and CM encompass a broad spectrum of areas including WCMS. Other areas also include Document Management (DM), Knowledge Management (KM), Electronic Content Management (ECM), and Financial Content Management (FCM).
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