Ebusiness

iProject E-Business

Purpose

Design and build an e-commerce web site.

Part 1 – 35 marks (Due week 7)

Create a plan on the construction of an e-commerce web site. ( Crazy Shoes Store )

a) Your plan should have a brief introduction on what is ecommerce, benefits of doing business on-line and the types of business you can do online. (5 marks)

b) Your choice of e-commerce and why you think it is a good choice. (10 marks)

c) Any legal requirements for running this business. (5 marks)

d) How are you going to market your product or services and what is your target market (e.g. parents, males, teenagers, etc) (5 marks)

e) What model are you going to use (e.g. web catalog model or fee-for-service model) (5 marks)

f) How are you going to charge customer credit cards or receive payments from customers? (3 marks)

g) Recommendations and conclusion. (2 marks)

Part 2 – 65 marks (Due week 9)

Build an e-commerce web site using the concepts learned in class (e.g. using joomla template and virtuemart or using any other ecommerce templates you know).

More details will be given in class.

PART 1

a) Electronic commerce (e-commerce) is the use of electronic communication to do business. It may be used to carry out business-to-business or business-to-consumer transactions. The real benefit of e-commerce is not that it makes old processes work better, but rather it provides a means to break with tradition and create new ways of doing business. For example, using the Internet will allow some businesses to remain small while building a larger turnover by reducing the cost of doing business.

The Internet is now a valuable communication tool which offers small business a great opportunity to market itself internationally and reach a global client base. It is estimated that 81% of small businesses in Australia are connected to the Internet.

The best e-commerce solution is dependent on the type of data trading partners need