About the EELAB Student Pages

The Internet is currently the fastest growing technology in the world, becoming the main source of communication and information sharing. It is seen by two thirds of its users as a key information source [1]. Therefore, new and simpler methods of displaying information on this media are required to allow this continual growth. In particular, there is a great need to allow those with a non-technical background to harness the capabilities of the Internet without having to learn or understand the technical aspects of web development. From this need stems the development of a pre-packaged Content Management System.
- Extract from Thesis

The EELAB student pages site was developed as part of the thesis study by Tanya Crawford to Design the EELAB web site using the home-grown Content Management System supervised by Ms Rodica Popp. The system was developed to provide a means of communication for the undergraduate students of the School of E&IE . Currently the School of Electrical and Information Engineering (EIE) is utilising a Content Management System developed as a Thesis Project ‘in-house’ by Mr Mayu Saba under the supervision of Ms.Rodica Popp,Web Services Manager, and A/Prof. Hansen Yee, Undergraduate Director of EIE. It is this technology that the system is based upon, with many of the existing functions and scripting have been transformed for use.

The system must allow students to easily create a site for their particular group or organisation without prior knowledge of HTML or any other coding language.
The system must allow group administrators to update or delete the content, look and images on their site.
The system must allow general users to add links, photos or general notices to the site.
The system must allow moderation of any content uploaded.
The system must provide a method to dynamically display this content to the general public.
The system must provide a means for database maintenance.

The system is boken up into four main user groups: Site Administrator, Group Administrators, Active Users, Passive Users. The system utilises PHP, Apache, MySQL, CSS and dynamic HTML to provide dynamic content for the user. Content is entered by group administrators or active users via html forms. This content is then moderated by the Site Administrator to ensure no explicit data is published. The user side of the domain can further be divided into six separate sections of content; Announcements of events and notices, Student Groups, Lecture Material, Postgrad Works, Student Photos and Links.

The domain exists exclusively to provide users like you an easy, quick and user friendly method of gaining or submitting information about the student undergraduate faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Sydney. Please feel free to contact Ms Rodica Popp or me with any comments and suggestions regarding the further development of the web domain.