INFORMATION SMK SACRED HEART

HISTORY OF SHS WEB SITE

The story of the SHS Website started back in the late 90's, well, 1997 to be exact, when a student by the name of Lam Jiih Kui spotted a rare site, at least up to that moment, it was still a rare site - It's the beginning of the SHS Website based at Geocities. He then quickly contacted his friend, Alex Ling Zi Neng and told him about the site. They both checked out the site but found it a bit 'simple and basic' and the worst of all, the contents are far too little to even be called a site! But, no offence, Mr. David Ong - The man who started the site, we would like to call him the pioneer of the SHS Website. So, Alex decided to e-mail Mr. David and made comments about the site and also offered helps. Eventually, Lam and Alex then, were still learning about the basics of HTML and page building, they made a simple site about the school and let Mr. David to have a look on it. 

After a few days, Alex received an e-mail, it was from Mr. David! He called both of Lam and Alex up for a meeting on a Saturday morning and they were so excited about it. Of course, they attended the meeting, but found out that there was an extra student other than those they were expected, he was a Form 4 students (1997) by the name of Thomas Ting. He was better than both Lam and Alex in page building, WAY better than them. Mr. David Ong discussed about forming a web team and other team operation procedures, of course, they weren't out of the main topic of that day - Building a website for SHS. Mr. David printed out Lam and Alex's simple SHS site, including Thomas' own SHS website which is much better than anyone else's at that time. After a long discussion of opinions and ideas, they finally decided to start off the project led by Mr. David Ong himself.

The Webteam started their project by gaining and collecting information, photos, data about the school and the building and editing followed. It took them a few weeks to finish the entire project but that's not it, from time to time, updates were made to the site and it looks better and better in each updates. Remember, the team are still kind of a beginner to webpage building and the most advance tools that they could manage and handle is a few simple Java scripts which runs the MIDI player. So, life is hard for them at that period of time.   

Upon completion of the whole site, Mr. David Ong proposed the idea of lauching the SHS website in conjunction with the SHS Teachers' Day celebration to Mr. Peter Wong, the Principal of SHS then. The idea went through.

On 5th of June, 1998, the Webteam were anxiously waiting for the arrival of the VIPs which includes YB Mr. Robert Lau Hoi Chew, Datuk Teng Chin Hua and other respective members of the School Board of Management. Waiting for the site to be launched. The launch was a success!        

YB Mr. Robert Lau Hoi Chew officiating the launch of the SHS Website with Mr. David Ong Chin Kim (Furthest right) standing beside him and Thomas Ting (Center) as a guide of the lauching ceremony.

At the end of the day, everyone including the Principal and VIPs were satisfied with the product which the Webteam worked on for weeks. Of course, it's not the end of the team's job, it's actually just the beginning of a long, long way in helping the school to gain a place and a recognition among the community of the World.

Sacred Heart's Webteam continued its battle after the launching of the school's website. Lam and Alex, together with other members in the Webteam, worked hard, days and nights to find out all the information and skills needed to make the site even better and to stage it higher in the international level. The webteam struggled hard to learn and practise the very basic language of webpage building - The HTML. Co-operation is the word to describe the atmosphere during then. With the encouragement from Mr. Ong, the members in the team exchanged ideas among themselves. They constructed site of their class, idol and so on.

Months passed. The atmosphere remained the same. One day, Lam explored his computer as he was bored. It was quiet except the clicking sound of the mouse in his room. Accidentally, he found a program called Front Page Express. Before this, the webteam were using the Notepad and HotDog Pro as the HTML editor. Lam analysed the program and tried to use it. In conclusion, he found out that it was a very useful program to construct a website. He then rang Alex.

Lam and Alex heard the software before, but it was a stranger to them. Since the function of the software had been discovered, they rushed lightningly the next day to a computer softwares shop to get the copy of Front Page 98 -- a complete copy of Front Page. With the assistance of the software, their work became easier, HTML editing became easier and much faster.

More and more contents were done after that. From a bare-foot journey to a car journey, the progress of development was faster than the days before. The members did not give up trying to build a quality website. They, on other hand, worked on the image design. They explored every related software. They did not let go any chance of learning website constructing knowledge. With the great fighting spirit, they take on the of ActiveX rather than HTML.

Weeks later, the second version was done. Sweat showered every inches of the body of every members.             

The second version of the SHS website was led by Thomas as he found a server which was willing to sponsor some webspace to accomodate our ever-expanding website. More information was added including the latest news, exams results, details of school's clubs, and etc. Although no frame was used in the site, the layout was in the higher class (nicer) and there was a significant improvement in graphic design as well. The struggle was worthwhile. The webteam obtained what they were targetting for. 

Teacher advisor, Mr. Ong rewarded the team with a big praising thumb.    

The frontpage of second version of SHS website which was based in 2020 Net. Unfortunately the server was closed due to some undisclosed reasons.

This is the website which which took away the top spot in the Sarawak Secondary School's Web Design competition organized by SAINS.

We are proud to present it to you http://schools.sains.com.my/smbsh/         

1999 was a difficult year. Most of the members in webteam were in exam class. Teacher advisor, Mr. Ong went outstation to further his studies. But this did not stop the destination of the team. The team continued to work on the site. Computer Club was then reformed after its dismissal a year ago. It changed from class teaching form to the club form. It was led by a talented Form 4 student by the name of Joni Kang. Mr. Ngu Joo Hen was the teacher advisor.

The school's webteam which was under the Computer Club increased in its size. Students who are interested in website building were extracted to the team. Jobs and duties were divided among the members. Some took charge of HTML programming, while some in data collecting. It was like running a company.

Our chance to shine came in the month of July when the team received the news of Secondary School's Web Design Competition from the teacher advisor. It was a competition organized by the Sarawak Information System (SAINS).

The team acted quickly when they got the news as they were running out of time. Every hour was a rush hour. The competition would be expired by the National Day and the exam was approaching. After the discussion of the layout design, forms were distributed to clubs to fill in their information. Members in the team scheduled their time to perfection, studying while building a site of the best quality. On the way to the completion of the site, they realized that the site doesn't look as good as they were expected from early on, they decided to change it, but time doesn't allow them to do so. They had to hand up their 'unsatisfied' project to the organiser as the expiry date was closing in. The site was not in favor to win the award in their point of view. It was a dream, yes, a dream for the team to win the competition. In the team's point of view, other competitors had done better jobs.

"It can't be, it can't be true.......It's impossible." this was the reaction of the members when they heard the news. Sacred Heart had beaten the other twenty schools to win the competition. Fax was received and it was proven true. It was a dream.....came.....true.

A small pupae had turned into a beatiful butterfly. SHS webteam's effort had been recognized at the state level. Simple and high-tech. The site was in the simplest design with DHTML and Flash used. Navigation at its easiest and attractive contents gained useful points in the competition.

Today, SHS Webteam continues its services to the school and to the nation. Now, the latest, Project 2001 - the SHS Millennium Website. This project is led by Alex Ling, one of the many successors who will get on with the journey which started with a dream, the journey of SHS website. This, maybe, the first step towards the new millennium and the new era of information technology, SHS Millennium Website is stamping a mark on the 21st century.

The SHS Website Motto : Building A Future Of Our Own.

The story is narrated by Alex Ling Zi Neng and Lam Jiih Kui. 

Year 2006

When I transferred from SMK Kanowit to SMK Sacred Heart at beginning of the year, I found that the school web site is up of the date. At that time, SHS was facing a big problem at management site. It is because Mr. Stephen Tan (Principal of SMK Sacred Heart ) will been promoted to Mukah as PPG Mukah.

But fortunately, with blessing of God, SHS get a new principal, Mr. Vincent Liong Shou Chuan. I approve to Mr. Ngu Mee Ung ( Head of ICT Pusat Sumber ) about the web site. He had no objection to my proposal to updated the school web site.

Then, I set up a new base in geocities and build up all the linking of society and club with GEOCITIES. Unfortunately, there was classifying as misuse of GEOCITIES.

I quickly discuss the matter to Principal and our Principal is very supporting in school site and he approve to have SHS own domain name http://www.shssibu.edu.my

With the help of Mr. Ngu Mee Ung to contact our SMS Parradot Company, finally SHS have a new base with new domain name.

The domain name is http://www.shssibu.edu.my and it cost RM100.00 and the web space increase to 2GB and cost around RM400.00

Year 2007

A lot of information about the school have to upload and the information of the school , I updated it daily.

For me, it is my interest and I voluntary to do it. A team also set up to monitoring school web site.

A student, Kong Lung Wei is good in IT who help to set up a former for SHS. He also willing to share a lot of information about the latest new of ICT. It help a lot during the process of updating information and design school web site.

At December 2007, the web server of school web site has problem in connecting.  It make a difficulty in upgrading school web site.

Year 2008

The school web site has move to new server and all the connecting problem solve. The space of web site is reduce to 1GB with 5GB bandwidth. (RM230.00)

The years to come, I wish to upgrade school site by using php. Still in process of doing it.

Writing by Mr. Lau Kiu Poh

Webmaster of SMK Sacred heart