Usable Shopping Carts

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(November 7, 2002)
This book is for any web professional who wants to implement a shopping site, or add e-commerce functionality to an existing site. HTML knowledge, as well as knowledge of one of the backend combinations (ASP/SQL Server or PHP/MySQL) is essential to get the most use out of this book.

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Author(s):Jody Kerr, Jon Stephens,Clifton Evans
User Level:Advanced
Database:SQL Server 2000, MySQL
Server Model:ASP VBScript, PHP MySQL (DWMX)
Publisher:Glasshaus
ISBN:19047151140

Summary

Creating a usable e-commerce application is a daunting challenge. There is so much to do, from the initial concept, through to designing and coding the application. This leaves a lot of scope for things to go wrong.

What's great about this book?

In this book we take all the hassle out of online shopping applications, by showing you how to plan your application, design the user interface and datastore, and code the entire thing. But it doesn't stop there – we provide the complete code for two complete shopping cart applications, customizable for your own needs.

Subject area

In this book we cover:

Planning an e-commerce application

Designing the application, from customer surveys and wireframe models, to UI design and prototyping

Designing and implementing the databases that will hold your product and order information

Implementing the Product Catalog, Shopping Cart, and Checkout system
 
 
Read Chapter 3 "Wireframes" here at DMXzone
Read Chapter 7 "Credit Card Validation and Verification" here at DMXzone

 

User Reviews

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Has anyone bout this book
Written by Kenny Darcy on January 13, 2004

Has any one bought this book, I have looked for it in all the book shops in London but to no avail, I was just wondering is it any good.RegardsKenny

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