E-Commerce Website Development & Greenwich Case Study Project

This project outlines the development of an e-commerce website for "Greenwich," focusing on business-to-customer (B2C) model implementation using PHP and MySQL. The website features a home page with an attractive header, logo, and menu for easy navigation. Key functionalities include customer and admin login pages with separate authorization protocols, product purchase options with quantity limits, and a contact form for customer inquiries. The project emphasizes the importance of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and recommends offering free shipping to enhance customer experience. References to various e-commerce and digital business resources are also included, offering a comprehensive overview of the development process and considerations for successful e-commerce website deployment. Desklib provides access to past papers and solved assignments for students seeking further assistance.

E-Commerce Website
Development
NAME OF THE STUDENT
NAME OF THE UNIVERSITY

E-Commerce
 E-commerce is the technology that allows people to purchase and sell
service and products through electronic medium
 The advantages of e-commerce is so significant to modern day
businesses that every organization is trying to move to online by
integrating one or more e-commerce models
 The most popular e-commerce models are business-to-business and
business-to-customers

Business-to-customer
 The business-to-customers or B2C model is the main focus
 The B2C has one business and many customers
 Typically the businesses sell their products or services through the B2C
model
 An example of B2C is Amazon.com

Implementation
 In order to implement the an e-commerce website many methods can
be followed
 Employing a team of experts or hiring service from third party software
are the most popular methods
 The outsourcing is done by signing a contract or SLA with the
organization
 The in-house development team, rather, work for the client
organization and get paid any other staff

Technologies
 There are vast range of platforms that supports e-commerce
requirements
 The most common technology is the PHP and ASP.NET
 Both the these has their advantages and disadvantages
 The Greenwich website has been developed using PHP and MySQL
 The ASP.NET is more secure but has extremely complex in comparison
with PHP
 Both of the technologies are open source
 The ASP.NET is more compatible with SQL Server DBMS

Use Case Diagram

Entity Relationship Diagram

Deployment
 After the system implementation is complete, it is important to deploy
it into a server
 The organization can deploy the website in their own server
 Another way of deploying is hosting servers based on internet
 The Hostgator is the most suitable choice for deploying the website of
Greenwich

Greenwich Website
 The website is based on the case study of Greenwich
 The organization needed a website that can represent their product on
a virtual platform
 Greenwich needed to track customer activities
 The website also has some admin functions
 The website shows all the products in one page
 The customer can buy a product from a specific page dedicated to
products only

Home Page
 The home page has a header that is able to attract the customer very
easily
 The animation in the header page is very attractive
 The home page represent all the products that Greenwich sells
 The customer cannot buy a product from this page directly

Header
 The header is the upper section in the website
 The header holds the logo, menu and header image
 The header image in the home page is in full scale
 There is an animation of text over the header image in the home page
 The header image is smaller in all the other images

Logo
 The logo of Greenwich is designed as per the organization business
 The green logo represents that term green and wich is designed with
red color to represent color of meat
 The logo is different in the home page
 The logo smaller in the home page as the contents of the home page is
more than other pages so the logo is made smaller