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Database Database is a collection of structured information or data stored in electronical devices usually managed by Database Management System (DBMS). It is commonly used by displaying rows and columns of tables. The data structured inside would then be easily accessed, controlled, managed and modified. For example: emails, phonebooks and newspapers (Oracle, 2023).  Advantages of Using Database More organized and structured data Data errors can be checked so it is more accurate and reliable Prevents incorrect information being stored Easier to backup and recover data Increased security that reduces chances of mistakes in the data Protected by passwords and encrypted that denies unauthorized access Information can be retrieved faster East to use and learn Can be shared easily to everyone reduces amount of disk space and avoids multiple copies of the same data Easy to recover loss data (Williams, 2022) References Oracle (2023)  What Is a Database? Available at: https://ww...

 Product Page The displayed product in my product page above is a pencil case. The product ID is displayed below it as well as the price, quantity and "Add to Cart". Beside the photo of the product, on the right, the product information is displayed as well as a brief description explaining what the product is about.

4Ps of Marketing Strategies Marketing is a process of buying, selling, delivering and exchanging of products between businesses, and customers (American Marketing Association, 2022). Product It is basically the products of what your company sells to the customers which could be online or offline. It is promoted through the other 3Ps of marketing strategies. For example: Apple selling smartphones (American Marketing Association, 2022). Price It is the amount of value you charge the customers for buying your products. Depending on the fairness of the prices, you could either get a profit or none at all (American Marketing Association, 2022). Place This is the location of where you should sell your products and how it is delivered to the market. It could either be a place is real life or online (American Marketing Association, 2022). Promotion This includes advertising and promoting your products to the customers, showing them why they should spend their money on it and how it is useful t...

SEO SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. Its purpose is to increase the rankings of ones own website in search engines such as Google. It also increases online traffic in organic search engines. It uses crawlers  which are bots used to gather information on the internet linking one web page to another (Ellis, 2023). References Ellis, M. (2023)  What Is SEO? Available at: https://moz.com/learn/seo/what-is-seo (Accessed: 1 September 2023). 

Temu (https://www.temu.com/uk/support-center.html?_x_sessn_id=2cgvf0gcpj&refer_page_name=home&refer_page_id=10005_1693895812569_dpywtz85xg&refer_page_sn=10005) Above is a section of FAQ page in Temu. It is separated into recommended topics that customers have frequently chosen to inquire about. Alibaba (https://service.alibaba.com/page/knowledge?pageId=128&language=en) Above is another section of FAQ but it is in Alibaba. It is separated into categories displayed on the left where you could choose from. There is also a search bar for you to type in your related questions.

(https://www.tts-group.co.uk/aboutus/about-us.html) Above is the about page of one of a website selling stationeries and school products similar to my own website project. Their main target are towards children and giving them a "reason to love learning". (https://www.justforschools.co.uk/about) This is another about page of a website online selling school products. Their target is not only children, but middle schoolers too. They also sell furniture for studying purposes that could be places at school or in your room.

 https://princessfarahahhud.wixsite.com/mysite-1  Above is the link to my website and below are screenshots of my website, although it cannot be seen fully since I have edited most of the content on a desktop despite currently using a laptop. However, the content is still there. The top of the homepage contains a menu and a search bar to navigate through. There is also a logo and the users account displayed. Below it is a welcome banner with a slogan or phrase for our website. On the bottom right, a chat button is displayed at all times for the users to chat with us. This is another banner displayed in the homepage that automatically switches  repeatedly. Here we display our best selling products and recommendations for the customers to browse through. I have included around 10 or 11 products on my home page. Discounts and sales are also advertised on the homepage.

 For my initial idea, I will create a website for selling stationeries and school products such as bags, pencils, pens, pencil case, sticky notes, notebooks and etc. I will add a customer service, a page about the website, the product page, banner, search bar and the best selling products including a phrase displayed at the top of the home page. It is targeted to students of all ages and is very family friendly. I will also include a logo of my own together with the name of the website "2 Cool 4 Skool". This will all be done on WIX.

 Meta Tags Advantages helps search engines understand what the web page is all about improves the users' overall experience by giving out more information of the content increases the ranking of websites and click-through rates, creating traffic (Uses of meta tags and Advantages and disadvantages,  2023) Disadvantages Meta tags are just one of the many options or factors which could improve the rankings of websites so it doesn't have that much impact some creators of websites may just stuff a bunch of keywords in the meta tags which could potentially harm the search engine and decreases the users' experience consumes a lot of time when creating the meta tags, especially for large websites with dozens of pages (Uses of meta tags and Advantages and disadvantages,  2023) Overcoming the disadvantages A website should not contain too many meta tags and must only include keywords. In the case of using a description meta tag, the user must input words and sentences using their o...

 Product Database I have ten products listed in the product table with its unique ID, name, price, quantity and profit using the respective formula shown above in the second picture. I have used a pie chart to show the products and sale prices. I have also used a bar chart to show the profit gained or lost in the product table.