This project entitled 'Implementation of An E-shopping Website', submitted by Shuvo Saha to the Department of Multimedia and Creative Technology, Daffodil International University, has been accepted as satisfactory towards the partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of B.Sc. We hereby declare that this project has been carried out by us under the supervision of Apurba Ghosh, Associate Professor, Department of MCT Daffodil International University. We also declare that neither this project nor any part of this project has been submitted elsewhere for the award of any degree or diploma.
Deep knowledge and great interest of my supervisor in the field of "Web Application Development" to realize this project. His endless patience, scientific guidance, constant encouragement, constant and energetic supervision, constructive criticism, valuable advice, reading many inferior drafts and correcting them at all stages have made the completion of this project possible. In this project I have created a dynamic e-shopping website using modern web development framework and also put it on a live server for testing and potential further development.
During this project development process, I did a lot of research on existing e-commerce web applications and businesses. The aim of this project is to develop a modern dynamic e-commerce internet software as online or digital shop on the net.
Motivation 11
Objectives 12
LITERATURE REVIEW 13-18
- Definition of E-commerce 13
- History of Ecommerce 15
- Different types of E-commerce 16
- E-commerce Usage in Developed vs. Developing Countries 18
- E-commerce Usage in Asia 18
Further, Singh (2001) supported the definition by alluding web based business to an online administration that is offered to the customer to help their knowledge of online shopping. The historical background of Internet business is almost intertwined with the historical background of the Internet. Web-based shopping just ended up conceivable when the web opened up to the general population in 1991.
Web-based shopping was designed and pioneered by Michael Aldrich in the United Kingdom in 1979. In any case, the primary web-based shopping exchange on the internet took place exactly 22 years after the fact. The Times said: "The team of young cyberspace entrepreneurs celebrated what appeared to be the first retail transaction on the Internet with a readily available version of powerful data encryption software designed to guarantee privacy [4]."
Amazon is one of the most important web-based business organizations that has established an affiliate promotion system, and today the organization gets about 40% of its deals from associates and third-party sellers who sell and offer products on the site. Be that as it may, there is some uncertainty about what web-based business means for developing countries.
WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT PROCESS 19-29
- Technology, framework and tools 19
- Number of modules of e-commerce application 20
- Activity Figure of E-commerce web application 21
- DFD Figures of ecommerce web application 24
- Admin Details Data Flow 26
Each of this module activity diagram and data flow diagram (DFD) described in the later section. Also in the last section of this chapter is about Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) of the application [12]. In this login activity figure I have shown how user or administrator can login to the application.
If the user details are correct, the application will allow the user to login and if the user details are not correct, the user will not be able to login and get some error messages. Later in Figure 3 and 4 are about administrator activity and user activity after login with verified user data. In Figure 3, the administrator activity diagram shows how the administrator can log in and manage products, orders, and other data processing tasks.
In this section we can see data derived from the login form on the user's home page after proper verification. In Figure 7 in the first level data flow diagram or DFD we can see the admin login, product management, order, users and various data flow functions. In second level DFD where admin can manage product, add product, delete product, update product and also view products.
Where valid users have full access to manage their account, add products to cart, view and order products. In Figure 12 we can see the entity relationship diagram between the data tables for our web application.
DEPLOY ON DISTRIBUTED NETWORK 30-46
Domain Registration 30
Hosting the application and database 31
Live Demonstration 31
Here we can also define the category URL and also enable or disable the category. Where we can change or modify all the product details, image and enable or disable functionality. In this section we can add or update different product attributes like product size, price and stock availability and also remove or delete.
On the Add product alternative images page, we can upload different types of images for the same product. In Figure 23, we can see the delete pop-up menu for any product and its related attributes. On the Add Coupon page, we can add discount coupon code, amount, amount type as fixed or percentage, expiration date and enable or disable functionality.
Figure 26 shows how we can add banner images for the front-end slider of our web application. After this section we will see our frontend or the main page of the web application for the users. Figure 29 here shows the home page of the main interface or index page of the web application.
On the product details page, here the user can see the details of a particular product and also select a different size, quantity for the product. Here, the price changes dynamically based on the product size and shows the product stock availability to the user. In Figure 31 we see the add to cart page where the user adds products to the cart and can also apply any valid discount coupon.
In Figure 36 we see a review and payment page, where the user can rate all products, the final total after including store costs and excluding discount.
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS 47-49
Worlds top E-commerce Industries 47
Analysis 49
DISCUSSION 50-51
Limitations and Issues 50
Last but not the least, supplying bad products or services is the main loss factor in the e-commerce industry. Also, the return and refund policy should be clear to consumers for any e-commerce industry.
Security and Firewall 51
Discussion 51
CONCLUSION 52
