E-Commerce
FINAL PROJECT – Webliography
INTRODUCTION:
Everyone
will be reviewing a variety of websites during each week. While some websites are great others lack
in marketing appeal to consumers and other businesses. Thus, each student will have an opportunity
to defend or criticize various websites.
Your final project will be compilation of websites that will focus on
each chapter of our text.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Here
are the specifics for the Final Project, which will be called a Webliography.

Each student will prepare a
WEBLIOGRAPHY for this class.
Students should research at
least 2 websites from each chapter in our course text. Since there are 12 chapters (outlined
below), this means that you will be submitting 24 reviewed websites for
your Webliography submission.
Also note the date that you
retrieved the information (this is important).
The format for each website
to be reviewed will be as follows:

FORMAT
.gif” alt=”*”> Chapter
# and Title: INTRODUCTION TO E-COMMERCE MANAGEMENT
.gif” alt=”*”> URL: .amazon.com/”>http://www.amazon.com
.gif” alt=”*”> Name
of Website: Amazon
.gif” alt=”*”> REVIEW: Each review will range from 4-6
sentences. Carefully analyze the website
for good and bad points and offer any recommendations based on the
information gained from your chapter reading.
For example, you may not have as much information to offer from Chapter
1, but this will change as we increase our knowledge of e-commerce throughout
the course.
Finally,
the format must be either in a formal executive memorandum format or APA
format.
Chapter
1: Introduction to E-Commerce
Chapter
2: E-Commerce Infrastructure: The Internet, Web, and Mobile Platform
Chapter
3: Building an E-Commerce Presence: Web Sites, Mobile Sites and APPS
Chapter
4: E-Commerce Security and Payment
Systems
Chapter
5: Business Models for E-Commerce
Chapter
6: E-Commerce Marketing
Chapter
7: E-Commerce Advertising
Chapter
8: Ethics, Law and E-Commerce
Chapter
9: Online Media
Chapter
10: Social Networks and Communities
Chapter
11: E-Commerce Retailing Services
Chapter
12: B2B Commerce

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A website is a collection of web
pages, images, videos or other digital resources that are addressed with a
common domain name or IP address on an Internet Protocol network. A web site is
hosted on at least one web server, accessible via the Internet or a private
local area network. A web page is a set of contents arranged on the web pages
using Hypertext Markup Languages like HTML, XHTML. All publicly accessible web
sites collectively constitute the World Wide Web.
The pages of a web site can usually be accessed from a simple Uniform Resource
Locator (URL). The first page of the website is called the homepage, which is
connected to all inner pages. Though most of the website are freely available
but some websites require subscription to access. For example: business sites,
news sites, academic journal sites, gaming sites, message boards, web-based
e-mail, services, social networking web sites, and real-time stock market site.
On the basis of function websites can be classified in four major categories:

Personal website

Commercial website

Government website

Non-profit organization website
While on the
basis of style website can be categorized as:

Static website: The static website design
is a simple website design which is cost effective and beneficial for the
small enterprises or individuals to expand their business through web.
Through static website individuals or small business houses can place
simple information regarding their company and products in simple manner
and at low cost. This type of website is very useful for expanding market
of company with its information and appearance on Internet.

Dynamic website:Dynamic pages are the pages
that change dynamically. Dynamic pages can change every time when they are
loaded without making any changes. Dynamic web pages can also change their
content based on what user does, like clicking on some text or an image.
If the information stored in the database changes, the web page connected
to the database change accordingly and automatically without human
intervention.

There are range
of websites each having particular type of content in specific field. These
websites may be randomly classified in any number of ways. A few such
classifications are:

Affiliate: enabled portal that renders
not only its custom CMS but also syndicated content from other content
providers for an agreed fee. There are usually three relationship tiers.
Affiliate Agencies (e.g., Commission Junction), Advertisers (e.g., eBay)
and consumer (e.g., Yahoo!).

Archive
site: used
to preserve valuable electronic contents that are on verge of extinction.
For examples: Internet Archive, which since 1996 has preserved billions of
old and new web pages; and Google Groups, which in early 2005 had
preserved over 845,000,000 messages posted to Usenet news/discussion
groups.

Blog
Site: sites
generally used to post online diaries, comments or views that may include
discussion forums (e.g., blogger, Xanga).

Content
Site: these
sites create and sell of original content to end-user. (e.g., Slate,
About.com).

Corporate
website:
used to provide information regarding business, organization, or service.

Commerce
site (or eCommerce site):
these sites are designed for purchasing or selling goods, such as
Amazon.com, CSN Stores, and Overstock.com.

Community
site: sites
where persons with similar interests communicate to each other through
chatting and messaging or through soci message boards, such as MySpace or
Facebook.

City
Site: A
site that shows information about a certain city or town and events that
takes place in that town. Usually created by the city council. For
example, Richmond.com is the geodomain for Richmond, Virginia.

Gripe
site: a
site devoted to the critique of a person, place, corporation, government,
or institution.

Humor
site: satirizes,
parodies or otherwise exists solely to amuse.

Information
site:
contains content that is intended to inform visitors, but not necessarily
for commercial purposes, such as: RateMyProfessors.com, Free Internet
Lexicon and Encyclopedia. Most government, educational and non-profit
institutions have an informational site.

Mirror
site: A
complete reproduction of a website.

News
site:
similar to an information site, but dedicated to dispensing news and
commentary.

Personal
homepage:
run by an individual or a small group such as a family that contains
information or any content that the individual wishes to include. These
are usually uploaded using a web hosting service such as Geocities.

Phish
Site: a
website created to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as
passwords and credit card details, by disguising as a trustworthy person
or business (such as Social Security Administration, PayPal) in an
electronic communication.

Political
site: A
site on which people may voice political views.

Porn
site: a
site that shows sexually explicit content for enjoyment and relaxation,
most likely in the form of an internet gallery, dating site, blog, or
video sharing.

Rating
site: A
site on which people can praise or disparage what is featured.

Review
site: A
site on which people can post reviews for products or services.

School
site: a
site on which teachers, students, or administrators can post information
about current events at or involving their school.

Video
sharing: A
site that enables user to upload videos, such as YouTube and Google Video.

Search
engine site:
a site that provides general information and is intended as a gateway for
retrieving other sites. Google, Yahoo and MSN are the most widely known
search engines.

Shock
site:
includes images or other material that is intended to be offensive to most
viewers (e.g. rotten.com).

Warez: a site designed to host and
let users download copyrighted materials illegally.

Web
portal: a
site is vehicle that provides a gateway to other resources on the Internet
or an intranet.

E-CommerceFINAL PROJECT – WebliographyINTRODUCTION:Everyone
will be reviewing a variety of websites during each week. While some websites are great others lack
in marketing appeal to consumers and other businesses. Thus, each student will have an opportunity
to defend or criticize various websites.
Your final project will be compilation of websites that will focus on
each chapter of our text. SPECIFICATIONS:Here
are the specifics for the Final Project, which will be called a Webliography.FORMAT.gif” alt=”*”> Chapter
# and Title: INTRODUCTION TO E-COMMERCE MANAGEMENT.gif” alt=”*”> URL: .amazon.com/”>http://www.amazon.com.gif” alt=”*”> Name
of Website: Amazon.gif” alt=”*”> REVIEW: Each review will range from 4-6
sentences. Carefully analyze the website
for good and bad points and offer any recommendations based on the
information gained from your chapter reading.
For example, you may not have as much information to offer from Chapter
1, but this will change as we increase our knowledge of e-commerce throughout
the course.Finally,
the format must be either in a formal executive memorandum format or APA
format. Chapter
1: Introduction to E-CommerceChapter
2: E-Commerce Infrastructure: The Internet, Web, and Mobile PlatformChapter
3: Building an E-Commerce Presence: Web Sites, Mobile Sites and APPSChapter
4: E-Commerce Security and Payment
SystemsChapter
5: Business Models for E-CommerceChapter
6: E-Commerce MarketingChapter
7: E-Commerce AdvertisingChapter
8: Ethics, Law and E-CommerceChapter
9: Online MediaChapter
10: Social Networks and CommunitiesChapter
11: E-Commerce Retailing ServicesChapter
12: B2B CommerceTHIS
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A website is a collection of web
pages, images, videos or other digital resources that are addressed with a
common domain name or IP address on an Internet Protocol network. A web site is
hosted on at least one web server, accessible via the Internet or a private
local area network. A web page is a set of contents arranged on the web pages
using Hypertext Markup Languages like HTML, XHTML. All publicly accessible web
sites collectively constitute the World Wide Web.
The pages of a web site can usually be accessed from a simple Uniform Resource
Locator (URL). The first page of the website is called the homepage, which is
connected to all inner pages. Though most of the website are freely available
but some websites require subscription to access. For example: business sites,
news sites, academic journal sites, gaming sites, message boards, web-based
e-mail, services, social networking web sites, and real-time stock market site.
On the basis of function websites can be classified in four major categories:
Personal website
Commercial website
Government website
Non-profit organization websiteWhile on the
basis of style website can be categorized as:There are range
of websites each having particular type of content in specific field. These
websites may be randomly classified in any number of ways. A few such
classifications are: