E-Commerce Introduction Outline

Review Sites

http://www.amazon.com
http://www.dell.com

Look at HTML code

Look at code on this page
Look at code on http://www.dom.edu/mydu

Draw and Review Diagram on Board

Client Browsers - IE, Firefox, Safari -- HTML and Javascript run on the client
Web Servers - IIS, Apache -- The web server sends and receives http
Application Servers - PHP, JSP, ASP.NET -- application logic is run on the server
Database Servers - MySQL, Microsoft SQL, ORACLE -- database logic is run on the database server

What are Domain Names? How do they work?

Get information on dom751.com at http://www.dnsstuff.com
Look at my domain names at http://www.directnic.com
How will our pages on dom751.com be found?
How is blackboard.dom.edu found?

What is a web host? How do you get your pages there?

The Web Server, the Application Server and the Database Server reside on computers at the web host.
How do you find a web host
What do you pay for web hosting?
How can you control your web site at the web host?
Let's look at the control panel for the web host that contains dom751.com (http://www.northshorechoral.com/cpanel)
Look at addon domains, databases, files, ftp accounts