An introduction to the technology issues in e-commerce. This course covers major types of e-commerce, the technology infrastructure of e-commerce, e-commerce web sites, security and encryption in e-commerce, payment systems, and B2B e-commerce technologies. Case studies on current e-commerce companies are used to gain insight on related issues. This course is intended to provide students from different majors with an overview and also necessary details of e-commerce technologies. No technical background is assumed.

Moving from building attractive Web Pages to building fundamentally sound and effective Web Sites. This course extends basic Web page development ideas to constructing effective Web sites through hands-on exercises. The course will cover design conception through storyboarding, navigational flow and fundamentals of well-designed Web sites. A continuation into the theory and application of creating web pages using advanced HTML features while introducing DHTML, XML and JavaScript to extend the students knowledge of Web page development. Working with the JavaScript objects and events will be a major basis of this course. The course will also focus on the use of multimedia to create and maintain state-of-the art web sites.