E-Commerce

In this post, I want to provide an update about my work upon an e-commerce website. To create my website I am using the layout provided by Wix, which I am editing. I have to prepare all of the graphics such as banner, logo and images of products. I am still thinking about the colours on my website and general look, in the pictures below I am showing initial idea, which I can change in the future. Author's work My header contains the name of the company, categories, search bar, wishlist and cart. In the future, I will add my logo. Author's work   This is the initial look of the homepage, without some features, which I will add in the future (description inside black rectangles). The image in the footer is not the final one, I will add my logo there.

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In this post I want to show initial design of my e-commerce webside homepage, which includes the header, body and footer. To create this initial project I have used Mockflow software. Author's work As we can see in the image, the webpage is divided into header, body and footer. The header contains logo, categories of products, search bar, login button, sign up button, cart and wishlist. Below the header, I want to set the banner with information about my e-commerce business, piece of history and slogan. In the body, I want to include only the pictures of products. I believe that the clear structure of the body will be helpful for my customers. Footer contains hyperlinks to all necessary information such as terms and conditions, FAQ and contact page. Moreover, I want to include hyperlinks to social media profiles of my company.

Internet website cookies Cookies are small text files with data, which contains information about the user device. By using cookies, a web server can identify the user. Moreover, a server may improve the user experience of browsing website. On the other hand, cookies may be used to display targetted advertisements or tracking (Kaspersky, 2020). User interface User interface (UI) is the point, where a person starts interacting and communicating with a computer or another device. This term contains all of input and output devices such as display, keyboard etc. It also contains the way, which a user interacts with a software or website (Churchville, 2019). Page source Page source is an HTML code, which browser is interpreting and displaying as a website. Every browser allows checking the page source, which means the user is able to read it and find hidden information such as metadata. Search engines are scanning the page source to determine where webpage should be in their indexes (Work, ...

B2B E-Commerce Business to Business e-commerce contain all of electronic transaction between companies. For example, Comarch is a company, which offers IT services and solutions such as ERP software for other companies.  Some of services from Comarch website (Comarch, 2021)   B2C E-Commerce Business to Consumer is a type of e-commerce, where consumer is buying goods from business. An example of B2C e-commerce is JDSports. This company offers clothes and sport equipment to the customers. Football shoes category page (jdsports, 2021)   C2C E-Commerce Consumer to consumer e-commerce term covers all of electronic transaction between consumers. For example, Vinted is a marketplace, where consumer can buy second hand clothes from another consumer. Vinted homepage (vinted, 2021)   C2B E-Commerce Consumer to Business e-commerce - in this type of e-commerce, consumer is selling goods to business. For example, H&T Pawnbrokers is buying gold from the customers. H&T Pawn...

In this post I want to analyse and compare 2 e-commerce websites, which are selling sport equipment - JDSports and SportsDirect The home page of JDSports contain a links to large number of features such as: wishlist, reviews from Google, search bar, basket and categories. Home page (jdsports, 2021) Next stage of my analysis will focus on HTML code of the website Hidden source code (jdsports, 2021) As we can see in the picture, the webside source code is divided into head and body. Head contains informations about webpage such as title, language, description and keywords, which are usefull in SEO.   Description and keywords in HTML code (jdsports, 2021)   Moreover, head contains some JavaScript code, which are responsible for dynamic and moving graphics and other parts of the page.   The part of JavaScript code (jdsports, 2021) Body of JDSports contain the links to product and categories pages, images and JavaScript code with webpage features.    Part of body sou...

Who invented WWW? According to Andrews (2013) a large number of people such as programmers, engineers and scientists had an impact on inventing the Internet, which means it is impossible to credit a single person for this invention. However, Tim Berners-Lee is called "father of the Internet", because in 1989 he invented the World Wide Web (WWW). Berners-Lee, while he was working in CERN created software, which could store information in different, connected files, called links. This technique is known presently as hypertext (Dennis, 2021). In next years he was working upon techniques, which allows communicating computers with each other. His main goal was to create software for researchers to share the results of their work without exchanging messages. For this purpose, in 1989 he created first web server and web browser (Dennis, 2021). Who invented E-Commerce? The idea of doing shopping without leaving home was invented by Michael Aldrich in 1979. In the beginning, the trans...

Python is open source, high-level programming language. It is designed to be user-friendly, which means Python is easy to read and implement. Python can be launched on Windows, Mac and Unix systems. It can be also ported to Java and .NET virtual machines (Christensson, 2010). Ruby is a programming language, which is using in front end and back end web development. It is a open source, interpreted, and object-oriented language created by Yukihiro Matsumoto. Moreover, it is syntax language, which makes it is high-level and easy to understand (Fowler, 2020). HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is a text-based language, designed to create a websites. Set of instructions included in HTML file "tells" to a web browser how to display text, images and other forms of multimedia on a webpage (Lutkevich, 2020). JavaScript is programming language, which is using in web development. Orginally it was created to implement dynamic and interactive elements to webpages. JavaScript is client-side...

Essential features   According to Smith (2020), the most important aspect of the e-commerce website is to provide good functionality and features. Moreover, he mentioned that the most important features of an e-commerce website are:   Promotion and discount code tool Easy to use the checkout Email marketing tools Multiple payment options An integrated blog or articles section Content management capabilities Reporting tools and custom report features The ability to add new features Good SEO    Advantages of e-commerce   Pillemer (2020) points out that e-commerce presently, in terms of a global pandemic is more important than ever. Furthermore, the author highlights e-commerce advantages such as:   lower costs for customers and businesses   In compare to traditional stores, e-commerce companies do not have to spend money on maintenance the bildings, which means, they can offer more attractive prices for customers.   a wide range of products for cust...