Design and development of a bookmark manager for the university of Nairobi E-iearning system

Abstract

Bookmarks are normally considered to be thin markers commonly made out of paper or leather, used to mark one's progress in printed material, bookmarks are dated as far back as the sixteenth century. Automating of bookmarks is dated as far back as with the introduction of the mosaic browser whereby a user would be able to store addresses of pages of interest to him on his personal machine, however unless he imports or exports his bookmarks, they would not be able to be accessed from any other location, hence bringing up the need to have web-based driven bookmark managers. Live bookmarks, web-based bookmarks or internet bookmarks are database driven bookmark managers, whereby a user may be able to keep a record of important pages they find on the web and would like to resume back to in the future from a browser machine located anywhere. The University of Nairobi has an E-Iearning system referred to as Wedusoft, this project is designed to keep a record of all important pages they find on the web as well as to store the last page the user was as the home page, every time he logs o