Case Study of Cameroonian Students’ Community in IUT

Abstract

Today we are in a new era of technology marked by an unprecedented revolution in social networking, with the Internet growing at a very rapid rate and becoming increasingly available to billions of people all over the world, almost everyone has access to the internet anywhere in the world and at any time, therefore they can browse and get connected to the Internet no matter where they are. The main objective or better still the aim of our website is to demonstrate how a group of people with a common background and a common interest can be brought together under the same umbrella to share their views on matters of common interest, exchange information, provide help and support to group members and above all regularly keep in touch with each other in today’s very hectic world; all these thanks to the very powerful and innovative evolution of sophisticated Information Technologies as exemplified by the rapid and dynamic growth of the Internet. Our website provides all the common facilities that a typical online community forum does; namely: a full-fledged interactive Forum and an Alumni Portal in addition to the usual amenities that all websites provide such a home page, contact us module etc. Besides, another prominent feature of our website is an attractive gallery of photos implemented with J-Query and viewed in a virtual studio that looks aesthetically appealing to the user. Our website also has an up-to-date interactive forum panel for its users to keep in touch. Articles are posted exclusively by the Administrator of the website and users can only view and comment on them. Alumni members are approved by the Administrator after proper verification is done. The Administrator has the privilege to block forum members as well as registered Alumni. All in all, our project is a modern community website that incorporates most of the recent technologies in the field of web development and responds adequately to the needs of a student community that we are.