Abstract
Currently, most of the hard copy journals are going online and becoming E-Journals. The advantages of online journals makes the work of both creator and target audience easier in terms of finance, revenue, time spent, global reach and most importantly the ease of communication. “Calaveras Station Literary Journal”, a student organization related to English department of the California State University, Sacramento has annual publication consisting of wide variety of topics such as poetry, fiction, non-fiction, critical analysis and poem. Student organization entertains the submissions from students in person and through personal email in most of the cases for publishing in the annual edition. The objectives of this project are replacing the static web pages of the “Calaveras Station Literary Journal” and develop a prototype in the form of web application facilitating online services such as remote submission, editors notifying selected submissions through inbuilt email, users archiving/downloading/viewing previous year annual editions and administrators adding/deleting the members according to the requirements. The database methodology used in this project for retrieving the journal information is star schema of data mart. The technologies used for implementation of static web pages are CSS, XHTML and the design logo is implemented with Adobe Photoshop. Static web pages are deployed in the Information Resource Technology web server belonging to California State University, Sacramento. Prototype of Journal Management System is simulated using WAMP stack that contains Apache web server, MySQL back end database and PHP server side scripting language. Prototype system can be deployed in WAMP compatible hosting server.