Aga's E-commerce adventure

  My idea of e commerce website is a shop that provides local products that can be bought in any quantity that the person requires. The idea is that the client brings own containers and refill them with desired products.  E-Commerce Website Initial Ideas My E-Commerce website will be selling the following (product/service): Children's wooden toys The business model for my E-Commerce website is: B2B, B2C, C2C, C2B, G2C B2C, B2B My Target Market is: Everybody who wants to shop sustainably. The business name for my E-Commerce website is: Fantasia My tagline / slogan is:  Wooden toys always the right choice. I researched the following competitor E-Commerce websites: https://woodentoys.com/  https://yesbebe.co.uk/ https://www.plantoys.com/ https://www.jaqueslondon.co.uk/ https://www.oompa.com/ My E-Commerce website idea is original & unique because: The company sells wooden handmade toys. Possible Meta tags for my website: Sustainable, eco-friendly. My website will ha...

Meta‐tags have many advantages for Web indexing and also some disadvantages. There is only a framework for meta‐tags in HTML, and nothing that defines exactly what meta‐tags exist and how they should be applied (Henshaw, 1999). Undeniable meta tags are important but when they are written incorrectly they can do more harm than good. A bad setup of a meta tag, either by mistake or lack of knowledge, can considerably damage the entire visibility of the website. Their use does not guarantee that the page will be given top billing within a search engine’s list of results (Guenther, 1999). However, currently meta‐tags are the only way to add controlled language and subject indexing to Web pages during creation (Humphreys, 1999).  References: Alimohammadi, D., 2003. Meta‐tag: a means to control the process of web indexing. Online Information Review, 27(4), pp.238-242. Henshaw ,  R.  ( 1999 ), “ The First Monday metadata project ”,  Libri , Vol.  49  No.  3 , ...

Mata Tags are the very important part in the SEO. Every website has them and they determine their search optimization. They are a piece of code that is only visible in HTML. Meta tags are snippets of code that tell search engines important information about your web page, such as how they should display it in search results. They also tell web browsers how to display it to visitors. (Hardwick, 2022) Meta tags are the word which a person type in the search bar when looking for information.  To make it more visual let's have a look at Ikea.com Mata Tags (Ikea 2023) Mata charset  attribute sets the character encoding of an HTML document. It is extremely important that you explicitly declare the encoding of every HTML document; failing to do so will cause browsers to guess the encoding, which can lead to cross-site scripting attacks if they guess incorrectly. Setting the character encoding should be done in the Content-Type http header, but can also be set with the <meta c...

  There are few different types of E-commerce: Business to Consumers (B2C) Tesco is a good example of this type of E- commerce. Consumers can do the shopping on line and have the goods delivered to their home.  https://www.tesco.com/ Business to business (B2B) This a type of an E-commerce where a companies producing goods on a large scale. A good example is a pluming company  Ferguson .  It is one of the largest B2B companies providing plumbing and building products to its clients. Headquartered in Virginia, US, Ferguson believes in content marketing.   https://www.ferguson.com/ Consumer to Consumer (C2C) An example of this type is a Facebook where goods that are no longer needed by an individual. are advertised and sold. Government to customer (G2C)  This is an official business transactions between government and citizens. It can be a city council where customers can pay their taxes, parking tickets or deal with other official matters. https://www...

Image source SEO  (Search Engine Optimization)   is one thing that anyone, who would like their website to be more visible in search engine and reach substantial number of potential customers, should learn. Simply saying SEO is a strategy that is use both inside and outside of the page to optimize the search engine most wanted result, which is targeted customers coming to your business.  SEO works by making certain changes to your website design and content that make your site more attractive to a search engine. (2022) References: What is Seo and how it works? [here's the answer] (2022) Digital Marketing Blog . Available at: https://www.lyfemarketing.com/blog/what-is-seo-and-how-it-works/ (Accessed: January 17, 2023). “Premium Photo: Seo Search Engine Optimization Business Concept.” Freepik , 5 July 2021, https://www.freepik.com/premium-photo/seo-search-engine-optimization-business-concept_15702404.htm.

Internet Website Cookies Cookies are small files that the website generate to help gather information about the user, enabling the websites to personalize the user experience. For example, ecommerce websites use cookies to know what merchandise users have placed in their shopping carts. In addition, some cookies are necessary for security purposes, such as authentication cookies. UI User Interface is very important part of the computer. It is the part that the user can touch, see or hear. As Wilbert O. Galitz said 'the goals of interface design are simple; to make working with a computer easy, productive and enjoyable.'  Page source According to Cambridge Dictionary a source 'is the place something comes from or stars at, or the cause of something'. ( SOURCE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary ,  2023) When it comes to internet a page source is a code that tells us the information about the website.  Meta tags These are parts of codes of text that help...

Tim Berners-Lee, pictured at CERN  (Image: CERN) The World Wide Web was Invented by Tim Berners-Lee, British scientist in 1989. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world. Image source The man who started it all was Michael Aldrich. In 1979 he invented online shopping or precisely saying a teleshopping, which become ecommerce until internet.  It has been said that the idea emerged on the walk with his wife. They were talking about how nice it would be if they didn't have to waste the time doing shopping and instead the shopping could be delivered to them. So he came up with the idea to connect phone and TV and that's how he created a system which he named "teleshopping". References: IWD Agency (no date) The history of eCommerce: How did it all begin? , IWD Agency . Available at: https://www.iwdagency.com/blogs/news/the-history...

To make it more visual I would like to compare two websites to give you more visual explanation of the previous post. The companies I am going to look into are two outdoor selling goods: Cotswold Outdoor and Blacks. I will focus on the header, main body, footer and looking for the product. https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/ https://www.blacks.co.uk/ Both sites are very similarly designed. First visible thing that you can see is the SALE picture and clickable categories such as brands, activities or types of clothes. They have logos on the top. Cotswold has it next to the search bar, whereas Blacks has everything in one line. Both have Menu bars but Cotswold has 15 categories right under the search bar. On the right top side there are things like store finder, log in, cart, Wishlist.  Both have nicely designed footer with all the necessary information such as ways to pay, customer service, Q&A.   I don't think there is something that I would change in any of this websites. Al...

Like most of the things in life, online Business has its cons and pros. Below are some of them.  Advantages Disadvantages        Open 24 hours a day        Time saving for trips                Global reach           Cost saving                Being able to sell goods from any place         No physical viewing           Technical problems             Delivery issues             Can take longer time than buying in the physical store  

Good website is essential if the online company wants to have big amounts of sales. There are important features that the website need to include to be able to catch a buyer attention.  First of all it needs to be easily navigated so the customers don't waste the time on searching for the desired product.  Search bar must be visible straight away. It's the first think that potential customer looks for when searching for something.  Logo   of the company to make sure the customer is on the correct website.  The best quality photos and videos . By looking at the pictures clients make their mind if they like the product or not. Therefore pictures should looking like the real product. Customer wouldn't like to receive something that doesn't resemble the item on the internet.   Customers should be able to sort and filter products according to their needs. It makes the product they are looking for more findable and saves the time.  Shopping card is e...

In the era where everything is accessible on line there is necessity for the companies to move into the word of internet. The companies are expanding their businesses on line in order to reach the wider range of customers. E commerce, commonly known as electronic marketing, made it possible by enabling worldwide shopping. By definition it covers a variety of business activities which use internet as a platform for either information exchange or monetary transaction or both at times. E-commerce means using the Internet and the web for business transactions and/or commercial transactions, which typically involve the exchange of value (e.g., money) across organizational or individual boundaries in return for products and services. (Lutkevich et al., 2022 ) It is possible to buy goods from any corner of the word in the comfort of your home. You just need an internet.  Reference: Lutkevich, B., Chai, W. and Holak, B. (2022) What is e-commerce? definition and meaning , CIO . TechTarget. ...

Programming is getting more and more popular. There are different languages suitable for the developers to work with in order to create the best possible product. We are going to get a little familiar with some of them.  HTML , or Hypertext Markup Language, is a language that defines the structure of web pages. It is one of the most basic building blocks of every website, so it's crucial to learn if you want to have a career in web development. HTML determines the structure of web pages. This structure alone is not enough to make a web page look good and interactive. So you'll use assisted technologies such as CSS and JavaScript to make your HTML beautiful and add interactivity, respectively. In this case, I like to break down the three technologies – HTML, CSS, and JavaScript – this way: they are like a human body. HTML is the skeleton, CSS is the skin and JavaScript is the circulatory, digestive, and respiratory systems that brings the structure and the skin to life. (Chris K...

Hello and welcome to my blog.  My name is Agnieszka, I'm a student at De Montfort University International College in Leicester. I would love to invite you to join me on my journey into the world of e-commerce. It will be my pleasure to have you here. In this blog you will find all the necessary information about e-commerce.