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Project Three


The American Flower Society needs help controlling information about flowers. The primary problem is that there are too many flower pages on the Web and folks are constantly telephoning for information. The AFS needs a Web tool to index flower Web pages and create a Web index that people can use.


At this time, there are three "gardens" of information that need to be indexed. (Note: the AFS uses the metaphor of a garden when they have a group of linked web pages). Each garden (i.e., group of linked Web pages) has a "garden door" (i.e., a Web page that is the first page in the series of Web pages).


Here are the three garden doors, each of which leads to a linked garden of Web pages about various flowers:

If you start at a garden door, you can follow the links from page to page around the same garden...three garden doors, three "gardens" of linked Web pages. The Web pages in these three gardens are the ones that must be indexed.

The technical challenge appears to have these parts:

  • Setting up a server.
  • Configuring IIS - Internet Information Server
  • Windows 2000 Security Rollup Package, January, 2002
  • Set up your own virtual directory
  • Visit Web pages and download/analyze content.
  • Parse file content ignoring stop words.
  • Stores the text of each Web page in a SQL Server database along with the appropriate URL.
  • A Web site that invites browsers to look at an index of flower names, flower data and when a choice is made, the user clicks on a word and the appropriate Web site(s) are found.