In this task you are required to maintain a journal of the activities and research associated

with Assignment 4 and to submit the completed journal with this assignment.

(10 marks)

TASK 2 – Prototype E-commerce website

Develop and populate the prototype e-commerce website for which you prepared a

strategic analysis and preliminary prototype e-commerce website using Joomla in

Assignment 2.

Your e-commerce website should contain, at a minimum, the following functionality:

1. An aesthetically pleasing, easy- to-use interface

2. A product catalogue

3. A shopping cart

4. An order form and payment interface

5. Customer registration

6. Discussion forum

7. Business policy statements on security, privacy, confidentiality and refunds

and returns

Task 2 will be assessed for completeness and working functionality based on an inspection

of your e-commerce website (you are required to provide the URL of the Joomla! website

that was assigned to you for Assignment 2 in Assignment 4).

(50 marks)

TASK 3 – Business Case Report for your e-commerce strategy

You are required to provide a business case for the e-commerce strategy you have adopted

for your organization and reflect on your experiences and insight arising from the

development of the accompanying e-commerce website in terms of the following: 1. Describe the e-commerce website features and functionality that have been

implemented in Task 2. (500 words approx.)

2. List any additional features incorporated in your website over and above the

specified requirements (200 words approx.)

3. Provide a site map of your e-commerce website in the form of a tree diagram that

shows hierarchical structure of your e-commerce website.

4. List any essential features not implemented in your e-commerce website and

describe any major deviations from your original plans outlined in Assignment 2 (400

words approx.)

5. Describe the features that are likely to be implemented in your e-commerce website

in the next phase of the development process to further enhance the usability and

functionality of your e-commerce site, and how you would use the Joomla CMS to

facilitate this (400 words approx.)

6. Briefly describe and reflect on the challenges encountered in using Joomla! as the

development environment for your e-commerce website (400 words approx.)

7. Describe how you will address security and privacy issues in your e-commerce

website (500 words approx.)

8. Describe how you will address backend integration and legacy system issues

associated with your e-commerce website (500 words approx.)

9. List and briefly describe the hardware and software required to establish your ecommerce

website as a live and fully functional entity, and provide a table of the

estimated costs (hardware, software, human resources, ongoing maintenance, etc.)

(400 words approx.)

10. Provide and justify a plan for a live implementation of your proposed e-commerce

web site including a prioritised timeline in a table (400 words approx.)

11. Identify and describe the expected benefits that will arise from implementing your ecommerce

website (400 words approx.)

12. List and briefly describe how you used any links and resources to research and build

your e-commerce site for this assignment (400 words approx