PRACTICAL BEGIN

Hello and Greeting one Malaysia!
Frstly, i want to introduce myself.  My name is Halimatus Saadiah Che Yahya and I am from Kuala Lumpur. I am currently undergraduate student from Kolej Poly-Tech Mara and currently taking BSc (Hons) in Business Information Technology. with International Business Collaboration with Coventry University, UK, and in 3rd year. Before i have to complete the study, i must complete the industrial training to fulfill the requirement of MQA (Malaysian Qualifications Agency). After that I will earn the Degree title.

I am currently on the Summer Placement programme as a Web Designer with Application and Web Development Unit at JKR (Jabatan Kerja Raya) Malaysia head office in Jalan Sultan Salahuddin Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

On the first day, I had been in an interview with the head of the information technology division En. Ahmad bin Daud. He asks about me and the areas I learned. After that, he gave the order (memo) to the assistant of the head of the IT division, Madam Ng Siew Lan then the assistant pass me to a supervisor which is Madam Hanifarhana Binti Hushin Amri who responsible to supervise and guide me in this undergoes industrial training. The task he gave me is to design a website for the Information Technology Division. Besides, I was assisted by a practical student studying in diploma in the field of programming, Polytechnics Seberang Perai.

The purpose me to attend the industrial training is to;

1.  Gain more experience in work environment
2.  Learn the work process in technical way
3.  To practice in the field for my future employment

First Day!! I entered the Jabatan Kerja Raya Malaysia for undergo industrial training.

This organization use fingerprint as tools to confirmed the attendance of the workers. 

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MESSAGE FROM DIRECTOR GENERAL

DG's Welcoming Speech

Welcome to PWD Malaysia. As the technical arm of the Government of Malaysia, PWD acts as the main implementing agency in carrying out development projects throughout the country. It is our aim to run an efficient and effective organisation to meet our vision, missions, and objectives in serving the people of the nation. Also, there are four services category that offered by JKR which are;  the public,staffs, the consultants and the contractors. For the consultants and contractors there are information such as tender notices and technical publications. For the public, will give the latest information on any unforeseen eventuality such as landslides, floods.

JKR provide the website to give all the latest updates about their services. The Director General  hope users will find this site informative and easy to navigate. If  do have any enquiry or complain, please do feel free to contact JKR. DG's welcome any feedback and constructive suggestions for the betterment of the department in order to provide better service to people that are need help.

JKR Malaysia is not just the largest government technical department but also aspires to be the best implementation agency in the country. JKR hope to serve the clients better through the continuous improvement in whatever the teams do.

Dato' Seri Ir. Hj. Mohd Noor bin Yaacob
Director General
Public Works Department Malaysia

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VISION and MISSION of JKR

Vision and Mission

Vision

To become a world-class service provider and centre of excellence in asset management,project management and engineering services for the development of nation's infrastructure through creative and innovative human capital and state-of-the-art technology.

Mission
Our mission is to contribute to the nation-building through :

1. Helping our clients deliver policy outcomes and services through working with them as strategic partners.

2. Standardising our processes and systems to deliver consistent outcomes.

3. Providing effective and innovative asset and project management.

4. Strengthening our existing engineering competencies.

5. Developing our human capital and new competencies.

6. Upholding integrity in delivering our services.

7. Building harmonies relationships with the community.

8. Taking good care of the environment in delivering our services.

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DIVISION

The Information Technology Division has a number of functions which are to plan, implement and maintain application system and department portal. In addition, they develop and implement Project Management System and manage data and information.

The Information Technology Division is headed by Encik Ahmad bin Daud as the head of Information Technology Division. The Information Technology Division is divided into six units, Management & Coordination, Operations, Network & Security, Application & Web Technology, Project Management, and Engineering Technology Innovation. These units are maintained by different officers so easily resolved if they have problems.

The organization structure.

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WEEK 1 and 2 - 7/1/2013-20/1/2013 (Planning and Analysis Phase)

 Create Project Proposal

• Collect information about IT Division
• Discover all the units under IT Division
• Discuss objectives, mission and vision

 1.0 Aim
The purpose of this report is to describe briefly about Web development for Information Technology Division.

2.0 Introduction
The Information Technology Division has a number of functions which are to plan, implement and maintain application system and department portal. In addition, they develop and implement Project Management System and manage data and information.

The Information Technology Division is headed by Encik Ahmad bin Daud as the head of Information Technology Division. The Information Technology Division is divided into six units, Management & Coordination, Operations, Network & Security, Application & Web Technology, Project Management, and Engineering Technology Innovation. These units are maintained by different officers so easily resolved if they have problems.

This website was developed for use by all employees of Public Work Department especially at Information Technology Division. This website may help users to obtain general information and entertainment provided on the website.

3.0  Mission Statement
The IT Division mission is to improve the sharing of technical information through a website that would help the personnel of Information Technology Division perform their daily task.This information would also help officers from other units to learn about the work processes carried out by Information Technology Division. The website will be another medium for communication.

Vision Statement
To improve the achievement of objectives and modern Malaysian Public Works Department through the provision of infrastructure and support facilities, equipment, software and IT use in accordance with government requirements.

4.0  Problem Statement
There is a need to improve the sharing of information, communication across the units, and section in the Information Technology Division. Currently, this division has no website that mediates for notification of any information or updated information to employees. Therefore, a website needs to be developed to overcome this problem. 

•  Ineffective communication using virtual elements across the units.
•       Less sharing of technical information.
•       Scheduling of time

5.0  Objectives

•       To inform and accumulate information.
•      To provide technical information such as documentation and work procedures,that    
•       the officer can use for everyday tasks.
•       To ensure that the information is current and reasonably updated

 6.0  Audiences

-          All JKR staffs in Malaysia.

Week 2

Specify Detail Requirement

• Decide and install the software to be used in this project

There are some problems to determine the use of software to perform web development as there is a weakness that lack of skills and expertise to use new software that used by web developers. And the installation find by own initiative and it takes time to installing the new software. 

• Study the software (Drupal software)

The installation of Drupal 7.10
 learned from Youtbe.com -->>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnspAZdYMOg

• Construct the questionnaire question related at all units to insert into the site to be developed.

MAKLUMAT KANDUNGAN UNTUK LAMAN WEB Bahagian Teknologi Maklumat.

             NAMA UNIT:

2      KETUA UNIT:

         OBJEKTIF UNIT:

4       FUNGSI UNIT:

         PERKHIDMATAN:

Maklumat disahkan:

 

Nama:

Cop Rasmi Jawatan:

Tarikh:

# Terima kasih kerana meluangkan masa untuk menjawab soalan soal selidik ini..:)

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WEEK 3 and 4 - 21/1/2013-3/2/2013 (STUDY DRUPAL & JOOMLA) also Construct The Gantt Chart

Interviews and distribute questionnaire to all heads of unit

• Gathering information from respondents.
• To help me define the details of each units.
• Also complete the details of content for insert in I.T Division website.
• To get reliability of data.

STUDY ABOUT  DRUPAL and JOOMLA.
I go to the library to find the book regarding the Drupal software.

When I entered the library. There are a few steps to find the books.

 

 

Below shows a few books that I have found and they are relate with software that I want to use. Other than that, the environment of the libarary is very calm and peaceful.

  

  

  Differences between Drupal and Joomla.

Table : Shows the comparison between Drupal and Joomla. http://www.thefactory.ro/articles/joomla-vs-drupal.html

Security Drupal.org provides Security announcement mailing list and a history of all security advisories.  As well as an RSS feed with the most recent security advisories.

Maintenance  It provide Drupal core. Which is a Bug fix (not just bug  reports), more maintenance releases will be made available. For example, rework theme filter tips to use the new attributes, and call theme.

Update notes Has front end only. The function is multifunction which is to  edit and manage the template.      Interface easily. Drupal 7 makes a change to the Update Manager module to allow Drupal.org to collect usage statistics for individual modules and themes.

Gantt Chart

Planning and preparing the details Gantt Chart.

1. Develop project plan
2. Scheduling
3. Allocating resources

    PROJECT PLAN for I.T WEBSITE.

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WEEK 5 and 6 - 4/2/2013-17/2/2013 (Design, Implementation and Testing Phase)

Design the external wireframe

• Design  homepage according to external wireframe.

 

Figure: Show the external wireframe that will be applied to website. The external wireframe is follow Pekeliling Am Bilangan 1 tahun 2006. Pengurusan laman web/portal sektor awam.

Implementation Phase

Implementation phase is stage to implementing the website. This is occurring after design the external wireframe of the website. The external wireframe follow Pekeliling Am Bilangan 1 Tahun 2006. Pengurusan Laman Web/Portal Sektor Awam and the design approved by my supervisor. 

Other than that, this Implementation and Unit Testing phase which on receiving system design documents, the work is divided in modules/units and actual coding is started. The system is first developed in small programs called units, which are integrated in the next phase. Each unit is developed and tested for its functionality; this is referred to as unit testing. Unit testing mainly verifies if the modules/units meet their specifications.

Below show the interface that already design.

The figure show : homepage interface of web portal I.T division.

The figure show : The next link after Home which is About IT units (Mengenai kami). this site contains all department details of IT Division.

The figure show : The next link after About I.T Division (Mengenai kami) is UNIT which is show all the units in I.T Division.  

The figure show : The next link after UNIT  is Vision and Mission which is the vision and mission of IT Division. Moreover, each of this Unit have own vision and mission.

The figure show : The next link after Vision and Mission is Sitemap which is the sitemap a visual or textually organized model of a Web site's content that allows the users to navigate through the site to find the information they are looking for, just as a traditional geographical map helps people find places they are looking for in the real world.

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