Introduction

The present youth group web site was developed in order to have a web presence for the youth group. This requires many changes based on feedback from members of the community. I propose that to address the deficiencies faced by the present web site, we construct a professional web site with paid hosting. A detailed plan for the construction deployment and also the maintenance of the web site will also be developed.

Objectives:

Ø To upgrade the current web site of the youth group to a professional web site.

Ø To have an easy accessible web site which is free from the present free hosting advertisements and banners.

Ø To reach many people to join the youth group as a well designed web site, the best marketing tool in the present era.

Ø To reach the youth through providing good “content” about the Temple and Hinduism.

Key factors to be considered for the passing this proposal

A) Planning

1. Detailed plan

2. Procurement of human and material resources

3. Co ordination of the volunteers

B) Content collection and Development

1. Decision on the technologies

2. Decision on the Content

3. The Development process

C) Cost.

1. Identification of the web hosting service provider with a general Cost Benefit Analysis of the market

2. Assessing the Member’s Monetary Contribution towards the expenses

Planning and Development

I have put together a rough estimate of the project and timeframes in the following table.

Stages ->	Planning	Development	Deployment	Cumulative
Process	Time in Weeks	Time in Weeks	Time in Weeks	Time in Weeks
Planning	4			4
Identification of Volunteers	2			6
Delegation of Work	1			7
Content Preparation		4		11
Content Refinement		2		13
Design of Web Pages Structure		4		17
Integrate the Content in the Web Pages		3		20
Testing in the Personal Server			2	22
Testing over the Hosting Server			2	24
Declared Open			1	25

Notes:

1. The weeks are estimated as 15 – 20 hrs per week

2. The No of Volunteers has to be estimated on the fact that each can contribute up to 3 – 4 hrs per week.

3. A minimum of 4 – 5 Volunteers has to be involved in the process on an average every week to distribute the load evenly.

4. There is no specific cushion time as it was taken into account while time allocation.

Cost

The next major issue to be sorted out is identification of a Web hosting service provider to host the Web site and assessment of the amount of contribution towards the project and the contribution cycle.

Major Items of Cost and the Comparison over three different Providers

Providers ->	Big pond	OzEmail	TPG
	Amount AUD	Amount AUD	Amount AUD
1. Domain Name Registration	330.00* 59.00*	199.00	0.00 25.00
2. Domain Name Hosting	165.00	0.00	99.00
3 One Time Fix Up charge	89.00	64.00	49.00
*Total Initial Cost*	*584.00*	*263.00*	*173.00*
Hosting Charges **	44.95 per month	38.00 per month	99.00 per year
Disk space	15MB	2oMB	25MB
No. Mail Boxes Included	5	10	N/A
Download Limit per month	200MB	500MB ^	No limit
Upload Limit per month	500MB	N/A	No Limit

Notes:

*Big pond registers only the “.com.au” extensions and thus we have to register ourselves with a registrar like Melbourne IT for A$59.00

**Also we can consider the option of Home Hosting by a person having a DSL Connection

^ Both download and Upload included

1. All the providers give the FTP access to the sites.

2. Big pond gives the IIS console for the maintenance

3. There are charges varying for the excess traffic.

4. We have to decide upon the manner in which we can distribute the cost amongst ourselves.

5. Only few have been chosen for the comparison purpose. Thus we have go for the rest of the players in this market.

Next Steps ->>

§ Plan for the further detailed study of the proposal.

§ Market the proposal also to the other than members.

§ Come up with the exact strategies based on the feedback.

§ Kick off “Project Youth Web”

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