This course is intended to cover the entire process required for modern eCommerce

website development and is suitable for intermediate to upper-level computing

students. It covers both the concepts and the practice of the entire scope of web

development and focused on the web development reality of today’s world and in

anticipation of future trends. The course comprises of realistic and engaging case

studies.

E-commerce has evolved and has become a major marketing force for most business

in most countries around the world. Given licensing regulations set forth by

governments and the evolving state of information access technology what applies in

one country may not in another. In this course students will be introduced to the

broad spectrum of legal issues related to e-commerce focusing on online fraud,

security of personal information, encryption, intellectual property, and cyber crime.

Using a commercial e-business tool students will be introduced to the theory

and practice in the creation and management of an e-commerce website

As E-commerce evolves, new technologies are being introduced and new web sites

are implemented with them. This course is a comprehensive course that introduces

and compares all existing platforms that an E-Commerce web site can be built and

hosted with. In this course different operating systems, different web servers, and

different CGI based programming languages are introduced and compared.