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Toolbox Activity 5: Exploring Social Networks
A slight change of theme for the next activity that will allow some other people to catch up. In this exercise I want you to explore the similarities and differences between 5 social networking sites... [Oct 29, 2008]
eCommerce Activity 5: Customer journeys
For this week’s activity I want you to look again at one of the companies you have studied over the last few weeks (preferably one of the bad ones) and think about the journeys that customers could... [Oct 29, 2008]
Designing customer journeys (Lecture 5)
In this lecture we will look at how customers use eCommerce sites, where they start their shopping journeys, why they often abandon their purchase and how to design sites to maximise its effectiveness... [Oct 29, 2008]
Feedback on Toolbox Activity 4 about FTP, Images and Video
A slightly smaller number of people completed this week’s activity. We are therefore running a catchup session (Thusday afternoon) for those who have fallen behind and made sure that the next activity... [Oct 29, 2008]
Creating storyboards and wireframes for your project
Very many projects this year involve using the web and so Mike Goodland asked me to look at the techniques we use to make sure that the projects are delivered on-time and on-budget. Please feel free... [Oct 28, 2008]
Owning and operating a web site (Lecture 4)
Most of you have now launched own site (in the past couple of activities). This lecture will consider what a site is for and what you will need to think about when planning it's future. Reasons for... [Oct 23, 2008]
Stanfords Case Study (Lecture 4)
Outline * Show the complexity of professional ecommerce projects * Examine the work involved in creating the system * Describe the technical infrastructure * Introduce some of the business and marketing... [Oct 22, 2008]
Taking control of your website (Activity 4)
Deadline: Tuesday 28th October, midnight Very impressed that so many of you are keeping up with all of the activities so far and for those who have fallen a little behind, don’t worry, we will provide... [Oct 22, 2008]
Supporting the customer’s decision making (activity 4)
Choose ONE of the following categories of ecommerce: Fashion Cameras Supermarkets Petcare Food (not supermarkets) TV/Audio Furniture Toys Luggage Health & Beauty Products Find 3 or more UK stores in... [Oct 22, 2008]
Feedback on Toolbox Activity 3
As a group you are doing really well with over 140 of you completing the first part of Activity 3. For those of you who are struggling we will provide some extra help starting with some of the answers... [Oct 21, 2008]
UK ecommerce retailers review (feedback on activity 2)
107 students completed this activity, well done! It was not difficult but I hope that it got you thinking about what makes a good ecommerce site and perhaps some of the problems. Many of you pointed... [Oct 16, 2008]
Setup a Complete PHP Site (activity 3)
prepared by Jarek Francik UPDATE 19 October * Jarek had some technical problems with his site and therefore I have decided to move the deadline for this activity to next Friday 24th. The link to feedback... [Oct 16, 2008]
Feedback on Activity 2
Firstly a big well done to all of you who completed this activity; you are now among a very small number of undergraduates who own and operate their own servers. We really do think you will find this... [Oct 15, 2008]
Installing and running WordPress (activity 3)
Congratulations to all of you who have now got your shiny new server space and domain name. As you will have seen if you chose a host with Fanastico there are now many applications and software tools... [Oct 14, 2008]
Lessons and questions from Shopify (lecture 2)
In this session we will review what you did with Shopify and consider whether you explored deeply enough. Most of you clearly benefited from using the software but some of you expect a lot more from... [Oct 8, 2008]
Toolbox Google activity feedback
A big thanks to everyone who completed this activity. My goal is to give you rapid feedback as a group so that you can use your new knowledge in the rest of the module and elsewhere. As a general comment... [Oct 8, 2008]
Evaluating a UK retailer (activity 2)
We'll return to Shopify a bit later on. This week I want you to evaluate a UK retailer and make comments on how well their site performs, how much it cost and the scale of revenue it might generate... [Oct 8, 2008]
Toolbox Activity 2: Running your own server
This is a fairly straightforward activity but it will need to be spread out over several days so don't leave it till the last minute. We want you to buy and run your own server space and we'll use it... [Oct 8, 2008]
Critical development issues in eCommerce
This session has been prepared for digital media students at Winchester University. Questions to think about * Why should a company consider ecommerce? * How does ecommerce affect customer perception... [Oct 5, 2008]
Managed to escape from singing
[Oct 2, 2008]
