INTRODUCTION

1.0 Background of the Study

Everyday you hear it on the news you read it from the

newspapers and in most cases you over hear people talk about it.

the age of change for any single individual or group academics

and even educational institution to be relevant in the millennium

global market knowledge of information technology is imperative

that is through the use of computers because we live in an

information daily in which the efficiency for the production of

wealth relies on computerized information technology as well as its

communication.

Computer as a tool which engenders expertise has drastically

reduced the world to a global village and promise to grow even

smaller. And with amazing incursion computerized information

technology and its communication is playing in our lives daily

experience has shown that computers are being applied on

virtually every field of human endeavour from finance to defence

education to politics banking to health military to communication

and which the topic “A WEB SITE DESIGN” falls among many

others. It is the means of using computer systems design or

layout pages as a storefront or location on the internet for

promotion of products to create awareness. It consist of creating

Home pages and its associated pages graphics; documents

multimedia and other files which are stored on a web server or on

a computers hard drive that is connected to the worldwide web to

create awareness of a particular product in this case a school.

1.2 Statement of the Problem

From the preliminary analysis carried out on the existing manual

system the following are some of the problems encountered:

a) Limited Publicity: Adequate information and knowledge

about the school is hardly passed across to the public as

only local advert placements on admission vacancies are

carried out on print and sometimes on electronic media and

not on a computerized media (computer) through the use of

internet.

b) Misplacement and/or Loss of Forms: Because students’

admission forms are in the form of papers the incidents of

misplacement and loss of individual forms cannot be ruled

out. This mostly occurs on transit when these forms are

taken from one office to the other for administrative

purposes.

c) Paper Bottlenecks: This may arise as processing activities

is carried out on student’s application and/or registration

forms. The problem of redundancy and duplication is a

common occurrence because of the usage of paper forms for

the purpose of students’ record keeping.

d) Time Wastage: The retrieval of an individual file for the

purpose of up-dating or file maintenance is not an easy task

as all the files relating to students will have to be sorted as

they are arranged one after the other until the desired file is

located and this is prone to time wastage.

e) Security: This is the fundamental importance as valuable

information about the organization or student should be

properly handled and used only for the purpose for which it

is originally intended. But for the fact that the information

are filed in a paper and stored in a file cabinets makes it

even more easier for unauthorized people to tamper with it.

1.3 Objective of the Study

The main objective of this project is to find solution to the

problems associated with the existing manual method which has

been the only means of publicity.

However with the implementation of the new system more

effective and efficient computerized means will be developed

which is a web page design of the institution that can be posted

online and will enable students from various location seeking

admission into the school accesses on-line the various courses

offered requirements needed duration of study as well as

applying for admission. The principal objectives includes:

i) To design a computerized system which optimize the rate at

which information about the school will be sent through the

internet to virtually every nook corner and cranny of the

world.

ii) To design a centralized database record keeping system in

order to guard against illegal access to the system.

iii) To design a flexible efficient and reliable system that is

capable of providing the management with accurate reliable

and timely information.

iv) To design a system capable of generating prompt and timely

reports on request.

Historical Background of Kaduna Polytechnic

Demonstration Secondary School Kaduna

Kaduna Polytechnic Demonstration Secondary School is the

product of the successful culmination of 15 years ago struggled by

the Kaduna Polytechnic Community. The need for a secondary

school to fill the gap in the educational cycle which has been

existing since the establishment of the Kaduna Polytechnic staff

school. In fact the PTA of the staff school was the spear-head in

the struggle for the creation of the secondary school. The

secondary school dream was actualized during the leadership of

Dr. Nura Yakubu who was then the Rector of the Polytechnic on

Monday 17th November 1997. Then it was handed to Mrs. M. A.

Mahmoud as the first acting Principal of the school supported by a

team of nine (9) teaching staff. The school took off at its

temporary site comprising of 3 blocks of classes the Princiapl

officen and staff room all located at the staff school premises with

the population of students at 112 students.

Administrative Setup of the School

School administration entails overall responsibility for coordinating

resources (human and materials from within and outside the

school) for the advancement of optimum result. Administrators

are therefore given mandate to approve educational policies by

adhering to educational curriculums. The head of the

demonstration secondary school is the Principal. The

appointments of the schools principals were all done based on

qualification experience and competence. The Principal is

expected to be a planner organizer manager of resources director

and coordination of all the activities in the school.

Leadership of the School 1997-2007

Kaduna Polytechnic Demonstration Secondary School had

experienced the service of three Principal from 1997-2011.

The first was Mrs. Maimunatu A. Mahmood a Senior lecturer

deployed from the defunct Liberal Studies Department Kaduna

Polytechnic. She acted as the first school’s Principal from

1997-2001.

The second school Principal was Malam Musa Bado Gumel. He

was deployed from the department of education technical Kaduna

Polytechnic. He was the first substantive Principal of the school

that served for a period of two years from 2002-2004.

The second substantive principal and the third the leadership

series was Mrs. Asmau Abdulkadir. She was also deployed from

Department of Education Technical Kaduna Polytechnic.

She served for a period of three years from 2004 – 2007. She

resigned voluntarily partly due to her new appointment as the

Special Assistant (S.A.) to her Excellency the wife of the President

and Commander in chief of the armed forces Higirya Torai.

The School’s Clubs and Societies

Club and societies are part and parcel of academic activities in our

institutions of learning throughout the country. Demonstration

Secondary is not exceptional in ensuring that clubs and societies

are functioning at least once in a month.

However the existing club and societies in Kaduna Polytechnic

Demonstration Secondary School included Jet club Press club

Hausa dramatic society Literacy and Debating society Geography

clubs Young farmers Mathematics and Computer and Red cross

society. The Patrons of the above mentioned clubs coordinates

and control the clubs. The management of the school had set as

its last Thursday of every month for clubs and societies usually

conducted after short break.

Sporting Activities in the School

Sporting activities is also part and parcel of the school’s activities.

Students on daily basis either during breakfast or short break were

engaging in different sporting activities such as football

basketball table tennis etc. within the stipulated time. Football

matches were sometimes organized either among arms or

between the school and another school.

In addition the school game master organize inter-house

competition in previous years. The school inter-house competition

is usually taking place in April of every session. Houses competed

in the school included the Yellow house Green house Blue house

and Red house. Although two more houses were added in 2007 in

the school they are Pink house and Brown house.

The 1st inter-house competition was held in 1999.

Yellow house came 1st Blue 2nd Red 3rd and Green came 4th. A trophy was

awarded to the winning house. In year 2000 and 2001 there was

no inter house competition.

In 2002 there was a good inter house sport competition as held in

May 2002. In the competition Yellow house came first Red house came 2nd Blue house came 3rd while the Green house came fourth.

Demonstration Secondary School recorded excellent performance

both in the field of sport as indicated above and academics

activities. Therefore it only needs to be encouraged sporting

environment and facilities should be more provided to enable

houses competes comfortably within and away.

Events/Competitions Won by the School

The school had participated in various academic competitions

either organized by the school itself or invited by other schools

outside.

In view of the above some academic awards won by the school

included:

i. National Science & Technology Forum. Kaduna Polytechnic