My E-Commerce Blog

Below is the digital wireframe for the website homepage:  For my wireframe, I will put a logo on top with either a phrase or website name beside it. There will be a search bar below it and a shopping cart. On the right, the

  IYZ E-Commerce Computing   E-Commerce Website Ideas     My E-Commerce website will be selling the following (product/service): Books and School Supplies   The business model for my E-Commerce website is: B2B, B2C, C2C, C2B, G2C Business to Consumer (B2C) My Target Market is: Worldwide The business name for my E-Commerce website is: 2 Cool 4 Skool   My tagline / slogan is: Knowledge can be easily gained by using plenty of the correct tools I researched the following competitor E-Commerce websites: School Supplies & Discount Teacher Supply Store | Discount School Supply School Supplies and Teacher Supplies | School Specialty Ditzy Doll - Stationery & Office Supplies (ditzystationery.co.uk) The Education Supply People | Consortium Education Educational and Office Supplies for School, Consortium, Academy an...

Meta Tags Meta tags, officially known as "Metadata Elements", are information added at the top of the html web page which is the "head" area ( Kaurin and Dragić, 2012).  They are codes that provides information to the search engines on how it is to be displayed in the search results and to the users. Additionally, it is also only visible in the html code (Hardwick, 2020).  It is mainly used in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and contains six most significant tags which are meta title, meta description, meta robots, meta refresh redirect, meta charset and meta viewport (Hardwick, 2020).  Below is a website and its page source: (https://www.heathrow.com/) (view-source:https://www.heathrow.com/) Meta Title It is a tag that contains the main title of the webpage with keywords that search engines will use to provide information to the visitors (Hardwick, 2020). Meta Description It is a tag that contains the brief summarization content of what the whole webpage is all ab...

 Amazon vs Temu Amazon ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/ ) This website sells electronic devices such as televisions, computers and etc. It also sells other products for the kitchen, house and the necessities needed for babies, toddlers and kids. In addition, it also sells clothes which could be found in all e-commerce websites. Amazon contains millions of pages. Although it has its own social media, there are no social media links on the homepage of the website. Its social media is called "Spark". There are also no links to their emails, live chat and phone. It does not have a "buy it now" option but has a "shop now" option. It contains many links that interlinks web pages with each other. There are around 9 tabs in the top navigation menu which are easy to navigate since few of them contains a drop-down list and has good proficiency in English. It is a user friendly website compatible with all browsers. It also has good content with high quality images of pro...

 Programming Languages HTML HTML which also stands for "Hypertext Markup Language" is a markup language used for creating the structures of web pages. It contains "tags" to create headings, paragraphs, adding bolded words, adding images, adjusting the sizes of fonts and images, adding bullet points and etc. (Chris, 2021). CSS CSS which also stands for “Cascading Style Sheets” is a computer language composed of coding elements used for structuring and creating webpages ( Css, 2023). Javascript Javascript (JS) is an object-oriented programming language used by developers to create webpages that users could interact with by adding interactive elements such as clickable buttons, pop menus, animations and etc. ( 10 Practical Applications of JavaScript & Tips for a Successful Career, 2023). Python Python is an "interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming language" developed by Guido van Rossum which was first released in 1991. It is used for softw...

  Advantages Reduces cost: Making an e-commerce website reduces most of the cost of setting up its own shop in reality such as displaying signs, arranging furniture, putting up the equipment and designs. Worldwide: Could sell much more products to customers globally from different countries and areas. Convenient: The customers could buy the products anywhere just by accessing their website. It also contains various functions and options for the customers to use to find products that suits their own taste. Cookies: E-commerce websites contain cookies that could help the seller check what the buyer has previously purchased which is a necessary information to provide complimentary items, Fast: Customers could buy the products more faster and saves time with just a few clicks. In addition, e-commerce websites could digest large amounts of client information in a short amount of time.  Privacy: The privacy of the clients when buying the products is much higher than buying them in r...

 Essential Features There are many features in an e-commerce website. According to a few of the most successful e-commerce websites, there are many essential features that are most commonly found and took part in its success (Purwati, 2011). Logo A logo represents the website or seller and instills trust in the customers. Each product has a logo that represents the seller or the website. It helps differentiate the brands and helps the customers in choosing the right product to buy. It communicates with the customers through images of different shapes, sizes and colors ( 'What makes a good ecommerce logo?', 2008). Navigation System Firstly, there is the navigation system. Its function is to help customers find their way through the website while shopping for products  to buy. In addition, it must be user friendly to better appeal to the customers. There are 3 types of navigation menus such as top navigation, side navigation and mega navigation. Top navigation is used when there...

E-Commerce E-commerce which also stands for electronic commerce is a website that sells products, provides services and selling information online with the use of internet connection. It is a "business transaction" between  the sellers and the customers specific products or information. It also gives services to customers where they can ask questions to the seller about the product they sell (Zwass, 2023).  References Zwass, V. (2023) " e-commerce", Encyclopedia Britannica. Available at: https://www.britannica.com/technology/e-commerce (Accessed: 6 July, 2023).

  Welcome to my blog! My name is Farahah Huda Binti Sirajul Huda born in the year 2004. I was born in Malaysia which is a very hot country and my subject is Computer Science. In this blog, I will post all the activities about E-Commerce.  I love to read novels, listen to music and watching Japanese cartoons aka Anime. I have used many e-commerce websites for shopping so I am kind of familiar with it.