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BTEC ICT Level 3 Unit 8 E-Commerce. Session 2 – Technologies and What they Consist of. 1.1. Technologies – Starter. Starter Activity – type the following IP Addresses into your web browser address box and then make a note the web names/domains that you have found: 74.125.157.99 74.125.65.91
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1.1. Technologies – Starter Starter Activity – type the following IP Addresses into your web browser address box and then make a note the web names/domains that you have found: • 74.125.157.99 • 74.125.65.91 • 98.137.149.56 • 65.55.72.135 • 65.55.175.254 • 64.191.203.30 • 212.58.253.67
Unit 8 Learning Aims After completing this unit you should: • Know the technologies required for an e-commerce system • Understand the impact of e-commerce on organisations • Understand the effects of e-commerce on society • Be able to plan e-commerce strategies.
1.1. Technologies – What do they consist of? Research Activity - create definitions for the following terms: • “Bricks” Businesses • “Clicks” Businesses • HTML • WYSIWYG • MySQL • TCP/IP • PROTOCAL • HTTP7. www
1.1. Technologies – What is in a “Domain Name”? Every website as an IP address, which connects it to the server that hosts it. However just using this causes problems such as: • Making it hard to remember for customers?! • Not very attractive or distinctive to customers?! • “Cybersquatting”?1 Check out GOOGLE?! http://www.google.com/about Protocol subdomain domain extension page
1.1. Technologies – What is in a “Domain Name”? Software (contd): - • Programming Requirements – web pages are written inHyperText Markup Language (HTML),XHTML,Hypertext preprocessor (PHP),Active Server Pages(ASP), JAVAScript. HTML does not support e-commerce activities without using another language!?
1.1. Technologies – What do they consist of? Software (contd): - • Download Speeds - a variety of speeds are available and is measure in kilobits or megabits per second. Text takes less download time that images • Browser/Platform Compatibility – web designers create web pages for the lowest specifications (i.e. older versions of Internet Explorer)
1.1. Technologies – What do they consist of? (Plenary and HWK) Research Activity – how to create a simple HTML web page using Notepad: Enter this code: <html> <head> <Title >My First Webpage </title> <bgcolour=‘white’> </head> <body> <font colour=‘blue’ ></b>Hello World!</b></font> <font colour=#000000><i>This is my first ever web page.</i></font> </body> </html> • Click File/Save As • Delete the file name and type mywebpage.html • Navigate to where the file is saved using My Computer. Notice how the file icon relates to your browser. • Double click your file. It should open in your browser.