e-Commerce Systems Arden University
Arden University |
BSc (Hons) Computing |
e-Commerce Systems |
Case Study Assignment |
4000 – 4400 |
Table of Contents
Introduction. 3
Stage 1: Case study. 4
Stage 2: Plan and design. 4
Stage 3: Implementation. 4
Stage 4: Improvement of the functionality. 5
Stage 5: Improvement of the design. 5
Conclusion. 5
References. 6
Appendices. 7
Appendix 1. 7
Appendix 2. 7
Introduction
Introduce what will be included within stage 1 to stage 5
Stage 1: Case study
- demonstrate a systematic understanding of the theory and technical skills required to design and develop an e-Commerce system for a fictitious company selling movies and tv shows on blu ray (LO1)
- Introduction to case study
- What is dynamic development
- Role of websites in e-Commerce
- Why do you think this case needs a dynamic development for e-Commerce purpose and role of shopping cart in the case study?
Stage 2: Plan and design
- between four to seven web pages for the given company
- typical processes and contents of an e-commerce site
- provide recommendations with regards
to a
- markup language,
- database,
- scripting (both client-side and server-side),
- multimedia components, and
- layout design
- Show a plan of working of website in the form of chart
- Show a flow chart of the processes
- Markup languages/client-side scripting – explain role of each in your website development: – HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Bootstrap etc
- Database – explain the role of database MySQL
- Server-side scripting- explain role of PHP
- Layout design – Wireframe/sitemap/sketches/static pages for front end and ERD for back end.
- Multimedia components – like YouTube or any other if you are planning to use.
Stage 3: Implementation
- Explain the implementation of website using the terms XAMPP, PHP and MySQL
- Screen of connection code (with explanation)
- Screenshot of product page and code (with explanation especially PHP code and Database query)
- Screenshot of registration page (with explanation especially PHP and Database query)
- Screenshot of login page (with explanation especially PHP and Database query)
- Screenshot of shopping cart (with explanation especially PHP and Database query)
- Screenshot of adding products to shopping cart (with explanation especially PHP and Database query)
- Screenshot of removing products from shopping cart (with explanation especially PHP and Database query)
- Showing billing page with cash payment form or paypal or just a simple form to ask payment details (with explanation especially PHP and Database query)
- If they have designed any other, like email send to buyer etc. (with explanation especially PHP and Database query)
- Screenshot of Contact Us/ Feedback (with explanation especially PHP and Database query)
Stage 4: Improvement of the functionality
- Recommend improvements including innovative approaches to
the e-Commerce system
- ways of making the process faster, easier, and safer
Stage 5: Improvement of the design
- Explain how you can improve the design the main interface pages of your case study.
- Add Facebook, twitter, Instagram etc logo in each page and connect with websites. Show screenshot and explain
- Add YouTube video to show how people can watch latest products available on your website or advertisements and show screenshot and explain.
- Show images of products again and explain.
- Even they can show reviews pages for your websites (if any)
- Feedback pages and show screen shot and explain (if any).
- Call options and show screen shot and explain. (if any)
- Live chat options (show screenshot and explain). (if any)
- Leave message via text number (show screenshot and explain) (if any)
- Option to select languages to reach globally (show screenshot and explain) (if any)
- any other idea
Conclusion
Self-reflection and further recommendations