1. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc.Copyright © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. Slide 1-1 ELC 200 Day 8

2. Agenda Questions? Begin Building an E-commerce Web Site Assignment 2 not corrected  I will get to them on Friday (I hope) Assignment 3 posted  Due October 7 @ 11:05 AM ?  assignment3.pdf assignment3.pdf  budgetTemplate.xls budgetTemplate.xls Exam 1 covering chaps 1-5 will be on Thursday October 14  20 M/C, 4-5 short essay and one extra credit question  On Blackboard  Open book, open notes

3. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc.Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Slide 4-3 Chapter 4 Building an E-commerce Web Site

4. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Web Server Software Apache  Leading Web server software (47% of market)  Works only with UNIX, Linux OSs Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS)  Second major Web server software (25% of market)  Windows-based Slide 4-4

5. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Table 4.3, Page 223 Slide 4-5

6. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Site Management Tools Basic tools  Included in all Web servers  Verify that links on pages are still valid  Identify orphan files Third-party software and services for advanced site management  Monitor customer purchases, marketing campaign effectiveness, etc.  E.g. WebTrends Analytics 9, Google Analytics http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=19494 Slide 4-6

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8. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Dynamic Page Generation Tools Dynamic page generation:  Contents of Web page stored as objects in database and fetched when needed Common tools: CGI, ASP, JSP Advantages  Lowers menu costs  Permits easy online market segmentation  Enables cost-free price discrimination  Enables Web content management system (WCMS) Slide 4-8

9. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Application Servers Web application servers:  Provide specific business functionality required for a Web site  Type of middleware Isolate business applications from Web servers and databases  Single-function applications increasingly being replaced by integrated software tools that combine all functionality needed for e-commerce site Slide 4-9

10. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Table 4.4, Page 227 Slide 4-10

11. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. E-commerce Merchant Server Software Provides basic functionality for online sales  Online catalog List of products available on Web site  Shopping cart Allows shoppers to set aside, review, edit selections, and then make purchase  Credit card processing Typically works in conjunction with shopping cart Verifies card and puts through credit to company’s account at checkout Slide 4-11

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13. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Merchant Server Software Packages Integrated environment with most or all of functionality needed Key factors in selecting a package  Functionality  Support for different business models  Business process modeling tools  Visual site management and reporting  Performance and scalability  Connectivity to existing business systems  Compliance with standards  Global and multicultural capability  Local sales tax and shipping rules Slide 4-13

14. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Building Your Own E-commerce Site Options for small firms  Hosted e-commerce sites, e.g., Yahoo’s Merchant Solutions Site building tools E-commerce templates  Open-source merchant server software Enables you to build truly custom site Requires programmer with expertise, time  http://checkout.google.com/support/sell/bin/answer.py?h l=en&answer=42874 http://checkout.google.com/support/sell/bin/answer.py?h l=en&answer=42874 Slide 4-14

15. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Choosing the Hardware for an E-commerce Site Hardware platform:  Underlying computing equipment that system uses to achieve e-commerce functionality Objective:  Enough platform capacity to meet peak demand without wasting money Important to understand the different factors that affect speed, capacity, and scalability of a site Slide 4-15

16. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Right-Sizing Your Hardware Platform: The Demand Side Demand is the most important factor affecting speed of site Factors in overall demand:  Number of simultaneous users in peak periods  Nature of customer requests (user profile)  Type of content (dynamic versus static Web pages)  Required security  Number of items in inventory  Number of page requests  Speed of legacy applications Slide 4-16

17. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Table 4.7, Page 232 Slide 4-17

18. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Degradation in Performance as Number of Users Increases—Resource Utilization Figure 4.11 (a), Page 234 Slide 4-18

19. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Slide 4-19 Figure 4.11 (b), Page 234 Degradation in Performance as Number of Users Increases—Number of Connections

20. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. The Relationship of Bandwidth to Hits Slide 4-20 SOURCE: IBM, 2003. Figure 4.13, Page 236

21. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Right-Sizing Your Hardware Platform: The Supply Side Scalability:  Ability of site to increase in size as demand warrants Ways to scale hardware:  Vertically Increase processing power of individual components  Horizontally Employ multiple computers to share workload  Improve processing architecture Slide 4-21

22. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Table 4.8, Page 236 Slide 4-22

23. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Vertically Scaling a System Figure 4.14, Page 237 Slide 4-23

24. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Horizontally Scaling a System Figure 4.15, Page 238 Slide 4-24

25. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Table 4.9, Page 239 Slide 4-25

26. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Other E-Commerce Site Tools Web site design: Basic business considerations  Enabling customers to find and buy what they need Tools for Web site optimization  Search engine placement Keywords, page titles Identify market niches, localize site Expertise Links Search engine ads Slide 4-26

27. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. E-commerce Web Site Features that Annoy Customers Figure 4.16, Page 240 Slide 4-27 SOURCE: Based on data from Hostway Corporation’s survey, Consumers’ Pet Peeves about Commercial Web Sites, Hostway Corporation, 2007.

28. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Table 4.10, Page 241 Slide 4-28

29. © 2007 Prentice-Hall, Inc 6-29 From Vincent Flander’s “Web Pages that suck” http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/ http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/ Top 20 Confessed Web Design Sins 253Our site tries to tell you how wonderful we are as a company, but not how we're going to solve your problems. 247We've designed our site to meet our organization's needs (more sales/contributions) rather than meeting the needs of our visitors. 136We say "Welcome to..." on our home page. 108It takes longer than four seconds for the man from Mars to understand what our site is about. 98Our site doesn't make us look like credible professionals. 97The man from Mars cannot quickly find the focal point of the home page. 87Our home page — or any page — takes more than four seconds to load. 85We never conduct user testing. 82We don't analyze our log files. 77Our site mixes and matches text sizes on the page. 74Quickly scanning the page doesn't tell our visitors much about its purpose. 70We don't know which design items are not necessary. 68We have not eliminated unnecessary design items. 62The man from Mars cannot quickly find the focal point of the current page. 61Visited links don't change color. 58We don't identify PDF files with an icon. 58I don't know if our site looks the same in the major browsers. 57Our pages have too much/too little white space. 55Our site uses divider bars. 54We don 't put design elements where our visitors expect them.

30. 6-30 © 2007 Prentice-Hall, Inc Good bad examples http://www.davesite.com/humor/top5/ http://www.smartisans.com/articles/examples/ugly.htm http://www.corson.tv/main/buttugly.htm http://www.oceanside-ca.com/ http://www.loopnet.com/ http://www.shopping.com/ http://art.yale.edu/ http://www.joneschijoff.com/ http://www.bidforsurgery.com/

31. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Tools for Interactivity and Active Content Web 2.0 design elements: Widgets, Mashups  http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open CGI (Common Gateway Interface) ASP (Active Server Pages) Java, JSP, and Javascript ActiveX and VBScript Coldfusion Slide 4-31

32. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Personalization Tools Personalization  Ability to treat people based on personal qualities and prior history with site Customization  Ability to change the product to better fit the needs of the customer Tools to achieve:  Cookies Slide 4-32

33. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. The Information Policy Set Privacy policy  Set of public statements declaring how site will treat customers’ personal information that is gathered by site Accessibility rules  Set of design objectives that ensure disabled users can affectively access site Slide 4-33

34. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Insight on Society Designing for Accessibility with Web 2.0 Class Discussion What is Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act?  http://www.hhs.gov/web/policies/hhs_wcd_508checklist.html http://www.hhs.gov/web/policies/hhs_wcd_508checklist.html Why might some merchants be reluctant to make their Web sites accessible to disabled Americans? How can Web sites be made more accessible?  http://websitetips.com/accessibility/ http://websitetips.com/accessibility/ Should all Web sites be required by law to provide “equivalent alternatives” for visual and sound content? Slide 4-34

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