ABSTRACT
This project is carried out to design a website for small scale business, case study Normat Pharmacy, which can help to make order online of drugs. And online advertisement of drugs which out reaching the pharmaceutical shop for order and easy distribution. The act of web development though may seem tasking and difficult to carry out by our conclusion, but web design is quite interesting. It can simply be achieved with little acknowledge of JavaScript, HTML, PHP etc. and a broad knowledge of Macromedia Dream Weaver.
TABLE OF CONTENT
Title Page: – – – – – – – – i
Approval Page: – – – – – – – ii
Dedication: – – – – – – – – iii
Acknowledgement: – – – – – – iv
Abstract: – – – – – – – – v
Table of Content: – – – – – – – vi-ix
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 Introduction: – – – – – – 1
- Background of the Study: – – – – 3
1.2 Aim and Objectives of the Study: – – – 3
1.3 Statement of Problem: – – – – – 4
1.4 Justification: – – – – – – 4
1.5 Definition of Terms: – – – – – 4-5
CHAPTER TWO
2.0 Literature Review: – – – – – – 6
2.1 Procedures for Web Connection: – – – 7
2.1.1 Web Server: – – – – – – – 7
2.1.2 Web Protocol: – – – – – – 8
2.2 The Importance of using Internet Browsers: – – 8
2.3 Pharmacy: – – – – – – – 9
2.4 Types of Pharmacy Practice Areas: – – – 10
2.4.1 Community Pharmacy: – – – – – 10
2.4.2 Hospital Pharmacy: – – – – – – 11
2.4.3 Clinical Pharmacy: – – – – – – 13
2.4.4 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy: – – – – 13
2.4.5 Compounding Pharmacy: – – – – – 14
2.4.6 Consultant Pharmacy: – – – – – 15
2.4.7 Internet Pharmacy: – – – – – – 15
2.4.8 Veterinary Pharmacy: – – – – – 17
2.4.9 Nuclear Pharmacy: – – – – – – 17
2.5 Military Pharmacy: – – – – – – 18
2.5.1 Pharmacy Informatics: – – – – – 18
2.5.2 Specialty Pharmacy: – – – – – 18
2.5.3 Issues in Pharmacy: – – – – – – 19
2.5.4 Separation of Prescribing from Dispensing: – – 19-20
2.5.5 The Future of Pharmacy: – – – – – 21
CHAPTER THREE: METHODOLOGY
3.0 Data Collection: – – – – – – 23
3.1 Oral Interview: – – – – – – – 23
3.1.1 Record Review: – – – – – – 23
3.1.2 Description of the Existing System: – – – 23
3.1.3 Director: – – – – – – – 24
3.1.4 Registrar: – – – – – – 24
3.1.5 Dispatch (Registration) Section: – – – – 24
3.1.6 Finance Section: – – – – – – 24
3.1.7 System of drugs: – – – – – – 24
3.1.8 Advantage of the Existing System: – – – 25
3.1.9 Disadvantage of the Existing System: – – – 25
3.2.0 Advantage of the Proposed System: – – – 26
3.2.1 System Design: – – – – – – 26
3.2.2 Characteristics of Good System Design: – – 26
3.2.3 Input Design: – – – – – – 27-29
3.2.4 Output Design: – – – – – – 30
3.2.5 Processes: – – – – – – – 30
3.2.6 Web Design Procedure: – – – – – 30
3.2.7 System Requirement: – – – – – 31
3.2.8 Choice of Programming Language: – – – 31
3.2.9 Coding: – – – – – – – 32
3.3.0 System Conversion: – – – – – 32
3.3.1 Parallel Conversion: – – – – – 33
3.3.2 System Requirement and Installation: – – – 33
3.3.3 Installation Requirement: – – – – – 33
3.3.4 Hardware Requirement: – – – – – 33
3.3.5 Software Requirement: – – – – – 34
3.3.6 System Installation: – – – – – – 34
3.3.7 System Testing: – – – – – – 34
3.3.8 Site Map Summary: – – – – – 34-35
CHAPTER FOUR: DOCUMENTATION AND MAINTENANCE
4.0 Introduction: – – – – – – – 37
4.1Application Plan: – – – – – – 37
4.1.1 The Architecture: – – – – – – 37
4.1.2 Diagram of the online Drugs Ordering System Architecture: 40
4.1.3 Program Design: – – – – – – – 40
4.1.4 System Maintenance: – – – – – – 41
4.1.5 Hardware Maintenance: – – – – – – 41
4.1.6 Software Maintenance: – – – – – – 41
CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
5.0 Discussion of Result: – – – – – – – 42
5.1 Summary: – – – – – – – – 42
5.2 Conclusion: – – – – – – – – 43
5.3Recommendation: – – – – – – – 43
References: – – – – – – – – 44
Appendix – – – – – – – – 45
APPENDIX
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<head>
<center>
<title>NORMAT PHARMACY</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor=”yellow”
<p>
<font size=”10pt” face=”arial” color=”red”>
<b><u> PLS FILL THE REQUIRE DATA </U></b>
</font>
<form>
<br>
ACCOUNT NAME:
<input type=”text” name=”Radiography”>
<br>
ACCOUNT NUMBER:
<input type=”text” name=”emergency”>
<br>
<b>
</b>
<br><b>
DID YOU EVER MAKE ANY ORDER:
</b>
<br>
HOW DID YOU WANT YOUR MODE OF DELIVERY?:
<br>
HOME:
<input type=”checkbox” name=”school” value=”customer accupation”>
<br>
OFFICE:
<input type=”checkbox” name=”school” value=”customer accupation”>
<BR>
CAMPANY OR PRIVATE PLEASE SPECIFIED:
<input type=”checkbox” name=”school” value=”CAMPANY”>
</p>
<b>
phone number:
<input type=”number” number=”Radiography”>
<b><u><B>
<BR>
LIST OF AVAILABLE DRUGS IN THE STORE AND THEIR PRIZES</U></b>
<ol type=”A”>
<li>PARACETAMOL$ 10CATTON $(500)
<li>PANADOL 5 CATTON $(5000)
<li>MALERIA 10 COTTO $(1200)
<li>ANTI MALERIA 50 CATTON $(20000)
</ol>
</p>
<b>
PLEASE SPECIFIED YOUR BANK TYPE:
</b>
<select name=”favorite Poly”>
<option selected value=”kpt”>GT BANK
<option value=”medical type”>ZENITH BANK
<option value=”customer illness”>DIAMOND BANK
ATM TYPE BANK TYPE:
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<select name=”favorite Poly”>
<option selected value=”kpt”>VISA CARD
<option value=”medical type”>MASTER CARD
<option value=”customer illness”>ATM CARD
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<br>PLS MONEY WILL BE DEDUCTED FROM YOUR ACCOUNT AFTER REQUEST IS BEING DONE
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PLEASE SPECIFIED LEVEL OF DRUGS YOU WISH TO ORDER:
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<textarea name=”words” cols=”12″ rows=”20″>
PLEASE SPECIFIED IN THIS SPACE
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<br>
<input type=”reset” value=”Request”>
<input type=”submit” value=”Submit”>
</select>
<a href=”DATA”>GO BACK</a>
<br>
<marquee> THANKS FOR BEING OUR CUSTOMER</marquee>
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CHAPTER ONE
- INTRODUCTION
Small scalebusinesses also known as small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) are generally regarded as the engine of economic growth and equitable development in developing economies. They are labour intensive, capital saving and capable of helping create most of the one billion new jobs the world will need by the end of the century (Agwu & Emeti, 2014). They are also perceived as the key to Nigeria’s economic growth, poverty alleviation and employment generation. But their unimpressive performance in employment generation in recent years has generated a lot of research interests on their challenges and prospects.
In recent years, particularly since the adoption of the economic reform programmed in Nigeria in 1986, there has been a decisive switch of emphasis from the grandiose, capital intensive, large scale industrial project based on the philosophy of import substitution to small scale industries with immense potentials for developing domestic linkages for rapid, sustainable industrial development. Apart from their potential for ensuring a self-reliant industrialization, in terms of ability to rely largely on local raw materials, small scale enterprises are also in a better position to boost employ raw materials, small and medium enterprise, are also in a better position to boost employment, guarantee a more even distribution of industrial development in the country, including the rural areas, and facilitate the growth of non-oil exports.
Internet, websites and web pages have become a huge source of information and also an easy medium of performing daily transactions, processing of information, storing and retrieving of information. With the presence of internet activities online such as e-banking, e-business, e-commerce, e-passport, e-learning the internet has grown rapidly, and is now global new technologies are continuously being developed to make the internet easier and more attractive to use. The therefore for many organizations, having internet access has become critical not only for communication, but also just for day-to-day operations.
The internet has created a wider audience and consumer base for whatever business that can be performed.
In the process of conducting this project e-booking is considered as the electronic transaction performed between individual and group of persons and a firm or organization whereby goods and services are booked online in time.
E-booking has become one of the easiest means of performing reservation of goods and services from far distance as long as there is access to Internet without visiting a particular firm or organization. Therefore by the means of e-booking one can easily make orders via Internet, which eliminates difficulties in dissemination of information, increase speed of processing information and reduces cost of transaction.
The project topic “Small Scale Business Website for Normat Pharmacy” will cover the development of a web application that will facilitates the features of e-commerce, which will allow transaction (online transaction) of drugs between the pharmacy (Normat Pharmacy) and individuals or group of persons without visiting the pharmacy, unless there is a difficult issue that cannot be solved online.
1.1 Background of the Study
Websites and web pages provide a lot of opportunities such as education, researching and sensitizing individuals, firm, organization and governmental bodies.
The background of this study is to view how web application can contribute to the Online drug ordering system; it is expected to solve the following problems:
- Inadequate dissemination of information.
- Provide an adequate means of making drug orders.
- Inadequate checking of ordering results by customers.
1.2 Aims and Objectives
The aims and objectives of this study is to design a web application that would:
- Easily and comfortably make orders via internet.
- Easily distribute and disseminate information.
- To reduce the cost of unnecessary labour.
1.3 Statement of the Problem
Most SMEs in Nigeria die within their first five years of existence, a smaller percentage goes into extinction between the sixth and tenth year while only about five to ten percent survive, thrive and grow to maturity (Aremu, 2004). Many factors have been identified contributing to this premature death of SMEs. Key among them include: insufficient capital, irregular power supply, infrastructural inadequacies (water, roads etc.), lack of focus, inadequate market research, over-concentration on one or two markets for finished products, lack of succession plan, inexperience, lack of proper book keeping, lack of proper records or lack of any records at all, inability to separate business and family or personal finances, lack of business strategy, inability to distinguish between revenue and profit, inability to procure the right plant and machinery, inability to engage or employ the right caliber of staff, cut-throat competition, failure to harness ICT technologies like websites (Basil, 2005).
The major problems of SMEs as it relates to ICT include:
- Inability of distant customers to comfortably and easily place orders.
- Inability of the Pharmacy to disseminate and distribute information to customers far away.
- Inability of the Pharmacy to speedily process orders quickly.
1.4 Justification
This project will create awareness that is necessary for a change in the manner of how things should be done. It will open market for the pharmaceutical company (Normat Pharmacy) as well as make the possibility of ordering by customer before reaching the pharmacy.
1.5 Definition of Terms
These are definition of technical terms used in this project, this include:
- Internet: This is a system that inter-connects two or more network segments together, using routers.
· HypertextTransferProtocol(HTTP): This is a protocol used to transfer information on the World Wide Web. An HTTP address (one kind of Uniform Resource Locator URL) that is: http://www.normat.com.ng
- World Wide Web: A system for exploring the Internet by using hyperlinks, by using a Web browser, the Web appears as a collection of text, pictures, sounds, and digital movies.
- Website: Is a location on a computer network that makes information in the form of pages or document available to visitors who connects to the site.
- Web Page: This is a document on a site which is made of written code called HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). Web page compromise of pictures, music, videos and other means of communication.
- Hypertext Markup Language (HTML): Is a simple Markup Language used for creating Hypertext documents that are portable from one platform to another. HTML files are simple ASCII text files with codes embedded (indicated by markup tags) to denote formatting and hypertext links.
- Hyperlink: This is a Colored and underlined text or a graphic that when clicked it goes to a file, a location in a file, an HTML page on the World Wide Web, or an HTML page on an intranet.
· Script: Is a type of program consisting of a set of instructions to an application or tool program. A script usually expresses instructions by using the application’s or tool’s rules and syntax, combined with simple control structures such as loops and if/then expressions.
· Server: This is a computer that provides shared resources to network users (Client Computer).
· Client: Is any computer or program connected to, or requesting the services of, another computer or program. Client can also refer to the software that enables the computer or program to establish the connection.
· Protocol: A set of rules and conventions for sending information over a network. These rules govern the content, format, timing, sequencing, and error control of messages exchanged among network devices.
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