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Unit 13: Designing and Building E-Commerce Web Site - Basics

• Database for an e-commerce Web site helps in storing and retrieving data of products and other
features in an effective way.

• A shopping cart is a piece of software that helps in simplifying the shopping process for an online
customer, when purchasing multiple products or services from a merchant's Web site.
• Apart from the HTML pages that likely make up most of the Web site, the shopping cart pages do
not exist until a customer requests one.
13.6 Keywords
Human Machine Interface (HMI): It is the interface or space of interaction between the human and an
equipment/machine.
Page Navigation: It is the movement from one page to another in an application.
Shopping Cart: It is a cart provided by a shop, for use by customers inside the shop for carrying of
commodities to the check-out counter during shopping.
Web Server: It refers to both hardware (computer) and software (computer application) that delivers
content that can be accessed through the Internet.
13.7 Self Assessment

1. State whether the following statements are true or false:
(a) Change management process acts as a framework for identifying the problems within the
project.
(b) Order table holds information on each product ordered which includes quantity, price, any
discounts on the product.
(c) Shopping cart is basically an interface between a company’s Web site and its deeper
infrastructure.
(d) All the shopping carts run on Windows Web servers.

2. Fill in the blanks:

(a) ____________ provides a detailed description of necessary information to be included in each
page of the Web site.
(b) ______________ deals with tracking the new versions of products and services which
includes updating, deleting and configuring the product and its information in the Web site.
(c) To place the shopping cart on your Web server, you can transfer the files by using any
_________________software.
3. Select a suitable choice for every question:
(a) Which among the following is closely related to identifying software bugs or changing the
site according to the new requirements?
(i) Functional specification
(ii) Project plan
(iii) Change management process
(iv) Configuration management

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