Short course name:

Electronic Commerce Systems 1

Module number:

COM 107

Course Syllabus:

Review of basic concepts:

Characteristics of E-Commerce Systems

Benefits of E-Commerce over traditional ‘bricks and mortar’ businesses


Electronic Commerce Site Planning & Design:

Technical and operational requirements for E-commerce web sites

Formal requirements analysis procedures for E-commerce site

Specifying and applying business rules to the site

Selecting optional site structures

Commercial tools for E-commerce site analysis and design


Designing and Constructing back-end databases for E-Commerce Sites:

Modelling data entities for back-end storage; schema design

Generic attributes for customers, orders, products, shipping and payments tables

Generating database designs from current paper brochures

Constructing E-commerce databases using standard commercial packages

Security, robustness and integrity issues for the backend database

Holding multimedia elements in the E-commerce database e.g. movies and streaming media content


Generating Online Brochures:

‘Publishing’ the ‘products’ database

Dynamic versus static online brochures

Storing textual and image (GIF, JPEG and PNG format) data for products

Holding brochures as online PDFs

Using cookies for user-recognition and web page customization