Islamic Economy thru Online Community Implementing Information Retrieval Capabilities

• Main Author: Mohd Akil, Maisarah
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 2007
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/9812/1/2007%20Bachelor%20-%20Islamic%20Economy%20Thru%20Online%20Community%20Implementing%20Information%20Retrieval%20Capabili.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/9812/

Knowledge Management has become more of a concern by the community around the world. Communities are more aware and concern of the sharing and transfer the knowledge. The rapid development of Web technology has made the World Wide Web an important and popular application platform for disseminating and searching for information as well as conducting business. As a huge information source, World Wide Web has allowed unprecedented sharing of ideas and information on a scale never seen before. The use of the Web and its exponential growth are now well known, and they are causing a revolution in the way people use computers and perform daily tasks. Islamic Economy thru Online Community - Implementing Information Retrieval Capabilities is discussed more advanced way by using the technology to motivate and encourage community to the knowledge sharing and transfer. The purpose of the web is to develop a platform that community can improve the economic growth and make their knowledge more effectively and facilitating circulation of community knowledge and collects community members' opinions as well. The target users of this website are consumers and business person. In developing the project, the methodology comprises of system conceptualization, system analysis, system design, system development and lastly system testing. The tools used are Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004, Joomla Open Source, APACHE Web Server and mySQL. The website focuses on the economic growth for consumer and business person, so that community can make a right decision in such situation. It allows users to search the needed information on the specific area and allows users to store their information as well, so that the community can share their knowledge and experience with others.