Advanced College of Engineering and Management

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER

KUPONDOLE, LALITPUR
(Affiliated to Tribhuvan University)

A
Final Year Project Proposal
On
“24 Hours News Portal”

Submitted By

17 sept, 2009
Kupondole, Lalitpur
Advanced College of Engineering and Management

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER

KUPONDOLE, LALITPUR
(Affiliated to Tribhuvan University)

A
Final Year Project Proposal
On
“24 Hour News Portal”

Submitted By

Submitted To:
Department of Computer and Electronics
Advanced College of Engineering and Management

17 sept, 2009
Kupondole, Lalitpur
 ABSTRACT
Today the world totally relay upon the electronic media to its every day adventure.
People have no time to be updated through newspaper or watching or listening the news
in the television or radios. People today need to be updated on daily basis in this
competitive world. Most of the people get the information about the world around
through the internet which is fast, accessible, and reliable. The WWW (World Wide
Web) is huge, widely distributed, global information service centre for Information
services: news, advertisements, consumer information, financial management, education,
government, e-commerce etc, hyper-link information, access and usage information.
To be able to get everything well managed and updated every second under one roof is a
real challenge. A real expert system is needed with much simpler and less sophisticated
manner.
“24 Hours News Portal” is a service introduced to meet the above requirement and to
make the people updated about the news ,views ,reviews, breaking news and latest
headlines in different fields also the new inventions around the world. This news portal is
targeted towards the growing news agencies and the other organizations which are related
to the field of media.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Abstract i

2. Introduction 1

3. Objectives 2

4. Literature Review 3

5. Feasibility Study 4

6. Methodology 5

7. Description of Proposed System 6

8. Evaluation 7

9. Conclusion 8

10. Time Schedule 9

11. Estimated Cost 10

1. INTRODUCTION
“24 hours News Portal” is a complete software for publishers who wants to drive an
online newspaper. All content stored in database and divided into categories.
Categories can be easily modified to browse and contains a self-organized interface to
promote top-stories. Software can be managed with a role-based system similar like a
real newspaper. Page editors, managers and assistance etc, Focus of role-based
system to drive applications in secure mode. Content schedule feature helps you to
publish articles and news at earlier time. Media News Portal create all articles and
publish them within search engine friendly URL. Automatic syndication system
imports content from other content sites.
Thus makes our news portal rich in content.
2. OBJECTIVE
The main objectives of project are

 A role based system and can be managed like a real news paper.

 To maintain a standard and structured website.

 To make a website that is updated 24 hours.

 To enhance the quality of news to the users.

 To give information about the different firm and companies of the country which are
registered using our directory.

 To make a search engine for the directory and articles.

 To allow users to make comments about the news topics.

 To make a voting poll on the present issues.

3. LITERATURE REVIEW
In the last few years, with the growth of World Wide Web, most of the companies,
institute, organisation etc launch their websites for their specific purposes, to achieve
their gaols, flow information etc. So there are millions of websites hosting on their own
way. But the company handle this job to the web developers or programmers. Some
website needs a daily update in its content such as daily news, the changes in prices,
advertisement of new products etc. So for a little change in website, company should go
to the programmer, which is tedious job.
4. SYSTEM ANALYSIS

4.1 Understanding the Problem

This step is the initiation of the project where the concept was developed along
with the identification of the problem. The problem is analyzed thoroughly before
proceeding so that no design flaws are later encountered.

4.2 Feasibility Analysis

Feasibility study is carried out on the following criteria. It includes four parts
which are given below:
a) Technical Feasibility
b) Operational Feasibility
c) Economic Feasibility
d) Schedule Feasibility

a) Technical Feasibility
Due to the avaiblity of different tools and knowledge about the tools make the
Project technically feasible. Technical knowledge about different tools helps to develop
the project quickly. There are different programming tools and editor available for
creating the web application and techniques for web mining. Technical guidance is also
necessary for completion of project.
b) Operational Feasibility
The operational feasibility of this project can be defined as that the project is
feasible from the point of operation because for the purpose of its implementation
employee having general knowledge of the computer or internet can handle. Since the
implementation is very easy. Thus it is operationally feasible.

c) Economic Feasibility
The proposed system does not cost high because it is just a service with simple
software added to the existing system.

d) Schedule Feasibility
It seems initially that the project needs longer study period but later on the project
development goes rapidly as per the schedule. Thus the assigned period of time in
developing is sufficient to produce the desired result.
5. METHODOLOGY
For our project, we first create a database for storing the informations that is to be
updated. We will create a section for the admin who manipulates all the content and who
has the authority relating the web site.

We use PHP for programming, MySQL for backend database. And we also use
Photoshop, flash, Dreamweaver as an editor.
6. DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED SYSTEM
Our system provides the following features:
6.1 Polling
The viewer can cast their votes on the latest news scenario which will be published in the
website on regular basis and the results will be published at the end of the month
collectively. This helps to know the views of the people to some extent.

6.2 Search engine

The user can easily search to the related articles using the search mechanism in the news
portal. Also the user can get information about the firm, companies and organizations
easily using the search engine.

6.3 Directory
In the directory will keep the information of the client firms and organization who have
already registered with us. And user can also easily browse and know the information
about the desired companies using the search engine.

6.4 Comments
The viewers can also comment the news and articles published in the web site.

6.5 News and reviews

The latest news and reviews will be published in the website. Updates are made on the
regular basis.
7. EVALUATION
Project evaluation is done by performing following tests:

7.1. White Box Testing

The purpose of the white box testing is to check whether the program is working
according the program structure development or not. The white box testing include the
process of providing some known and desired data to the program and to check whether
the programs functions according to the logic or not, also known as the Glass-box testing.
The white box testing of the software that was developed was also successful. All the
logical conditions and the queries that were used for the database programming were
tested and they were found to be correct so there was no errors the errors that were
discovered were dealt with during the time of the programming stage thus removing any
logical and structural errors.

7.2. Black Box Testing

This testing is generally performed by a group of people who are not
concerned with the software development. It is test where the data that have known
output results is used. The testing performed by others personal showed that the program
worked and the desired result was obtained. This testing provides the errors associated
with the user requirements
8. CONCLUSION

Now we can make a system which can enhance the features of a news portal
which can be viewed by any person having a little knowledge about the computer and
keep themselves updated regarding the news. Here we have created back end which can
be accessed only by the authorized person and will have the right to manipulate the news
and other tasks regarding the web site.
9. TIME SCHEDULE
10. COST ESTIMATION

S.N Description Amount

1 Purchase of different development tools 20,000
2 Purchase of computer 30,000
3 Training for operation of different tools 15,000
4 Developer Cost 30,000
5 Documentation 5,000
6 Miscellaneous 10,000
Total 110,000