AV & BV Andrews LTD achieves its objectives by laying the website out in a specific way aimed to allow the potential customers access to all information quickly and easily.

Overall the site is successful in meeting its objectives because it is a very small site and can take advantage of that by not having to add many complex tools to help users to find what they are looking for. By only having a few select products, the site can take advantage of simply being able to list what is available and not have to spend large amounts of time working on website development and updates.

Structure

This website has a very simple structure.

Purpose and Objectives

AV & BV Andrews LTD is an ecommerce site that aims to show and sell products to potential buyers. It allows for people to browse through their list of products and to easily create an account with them for purchasing goods. The main aim is to sell but the website also has the objective of portraying what the business is like and to fully make people aware of the goods and services that are on offer. Another objective of this site is to make people believe that the products offered are good quality and cheaper than other places at the same time.

AV & BV Andrews LTD

Examples of transactional websites:
TESCO, Amazon, Andrews LTD.




Tesco.com is a transactional website mostly selling groceries. The site also sells many other things such as electrical goods, finance and insurance, entertainment, clothing, furniture, etc. To buy, one has to set up an account with TESCO and then proceed to added items to the basket, once all items that are to be bought are in the basket, direct your attention towards the ‘view basket/checkout’ button and click it. Once on this page, checkout and delivery should occur as the details showed when buying the products, not usually longer than a week or so.

Amazon.co.uk is a transactional website that sells nearly everything, including books, movies, music, games, electronics, computers, groceries, toys, jewellery, etc. To buy, first create an account and then either use the search button located near the top or follow the links located on the right hand side. Once the product has been found, add it to the shopping basket and proceed to checkout.

Andrewsltd.co.uk is a smaller transactional website than the two shown before and this one specifically deals with jewellery. It sells rings, earrings, bracelets, pendants, etc. and it also deals with clocks.
There are very few products that are actually available for purchase online in comparison to other transactional websites – there was only 28 items on the day that I had a look (12/12/07)

E-commerce is the action of buying and selling products over electronic systems and the Internet. Over the years, ecommerce has grown popular amongst much of the population and it is now a widely used means of purchasing and selling. A wide variety of commerce is conducted in this way, spurring and drawing on innovations in electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), automated inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems.

There are benefits are drawbacks of e-commerce:

Benefits:

Easy, fast and efficient.
Not very time consuming.
Allows people who are housebound to purchase items.
Reduces time and travel.

Drawbacks:

Allows for more online fraud.
Many people can become addicted to online buying.

last lesson read green stuff in the text book

in this lesson i went over the example of the coursework thing and i found a transactional website to do.

i also did this:

Transactional Websites

http://www.andrewsltd.co.uk/

Plan

Six pages are needed:

Introduction
e-commerce
diagrams
security
database
evaluation

Some pages will have sub-sections:

For the introduction page, no subsections will be required.

For the e-commerce page, eleven subsections are required:

What is e-commerce?
Purpose & Objectives
Structure
Goods & Services
Product Information
Transaction
Capturing customer information
Authentication
Techniques used on customers
Usability and Accessibility
Customer Experience