Islamic Economy thru Online Community Implementing Information Retrieval Capabilities

Knowledge Management has become more of a concern by the community around the
world. Communities are more aware and concern of the sharing and transfer the
knowledge. The rapid development of Web technology has made the World Wide Web
an important and popular application platform for disseminating and searching for
information as well as conducting business. As a huge information source, World Wide
Web has allowed unprecedented sharing of ideas and information on a scale never seen
before. The use of the Web and its exponential growth are now well known, and they are
causing a revolution in the way people use computers and perform daily tasks. Islamic
Economy thru Online Community - Implementing Information Retrieval Capabilities is
discussed more advanced way by using the technology to motivate and encourage
community to the knowledge sharing and transfer. The purpose of the web is to develop a
platform that community can improve the economic growth and make their knowledge
more effectively and facilitating circulation of community knowledge and collects
community members' opinions as well. The target users of this website are consumers
and business person. In developing the project, the methodology comprises of system
conceptualization, system analysis, system design, system development and lastly system
testing. The tools used are Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004, Joomla Open Source,
APACHE Web Server and mySQL. The website focuses on the economic growth for
consumer and business person, so that community can make a right decision in such
situation. It allows users to search the needed information on the specific area and allows
users to store their information as well, so that the community can share their knowledge
and experience with others.