Web Development (ICA50601)

As part of this course it is a good idea to have an idea of how eCommerece affects the development of web sites, including models of eCommerce, payment systems, security and the hardware and software that is required.

As part of the course you will be required to write a short article on eCommerce. Some of the possible choices of topic are given in the extended story, along with resources that may help you when writing the article.

Topics

The following is a list of subjects that will be offered to you for research and writing of an article.

1. Software and Hardware for eCommerce
2. Security threats to eCommerce
3. Strategies for purchasing and support activities
4. Strategies for web auctions, virtual communities, and web portals
5. Payment systems for electronic commerce
6. Creating usable shopping carts: Designing the workflow for an electronic shop – selection, ordering, payment and delivery.
7. Electronic business models.
8. Implementing security for electronic commerce
9. Strategies for marketing, sales and promotion of an eCommerce web site
10. Taxation and eCommerce in Australia
11. Legal and Ethical issues in eCommerce
12. eCommerce future trends
13. Using PayPal with PHP to create an electronic commerce web site – principles, workflow and practice – a tutorial using PHP and ADOdb
14. Using credit cards with PHP to create an electronic web site – principles, workflow and practice – a tutorial using PHP and ADOdb

Resources

Possible resources for this work include the following books:

• Success @ e-business by Peter morath. ML [1]
• Electronic Commerce by Gary P Schneider and James T Perry. ML [10] AG [1]
• Constructing Usable Shopping Carts (Designing and building great eCommerce applications) by Clifton Evans, Jody Kerr, John Stephens. ML [1] AG [1]
• Internet Commerce Development by Craig Standing. ML [2]
• Internet Commerce – Digital Models for Business by E Lawrence, B Corbitt, A Tidwell, J Fisher and JR Lawrence. ML [1]
• Successful e-Commerce (10 case studies to show small business how to profit from online commerce) by Marc Philips. ML [1]
• Creating interactive websites with PHP and Web services by Eric Rosebrock. AG [1]

Each reference may have a “tag” next to it to identify locations. They are: ML for Midland Library, TL Thornlie, BL Balga and CL Carlisle. Books from other campuses will need to be reserved at the Midland campus and collected from there, unless you make a journey to the relevant location.

Books that belong to Mr Gould are tagged AG and may not be available in any of the libraries unless otherwise indicated.

The number in [square brackets] indicates the approximate number of copies of the book.

Remember that books do not always come from the IT or Computing section but may come from the Business and Marketing areas of the library.