ECWD Course Content


Instructor (Physical): Professor John Sum, Institute of Technology Management
Office/Email: Room 821, CSSM Building / pfsum@nchu.edu.tw (for general enquiries)
Time: Wednesday 14:10-17:00
Course Venue: Room 322, CSSM Building (Physical) / Google Meet (Online) Google account login!
Course Email: johnsum.nchu@gmail.com (for assignments submission)
Course URL: http://john.digi-pack.io/WDM/ECWD2022.html
Consultation: By appointment

Ultimate Purposes

This course is not to teach a student how to build a website. I am not going to teach students about web programming, such as Java and dotnet. Certain technologies for website development will be introduced but will not be taught in detail.

The main purpose of the course is to guide the students to answer the following questions about website development.

  1. Why a website has to be designed in such and such way? Here lists a few examples.
  2. What technologies have been applied to develop a website? Why these technologies are applied? Here lists a few examples.
  3. Is the business supported by the website is profitable? If yes, how could we replica this business?
  4. Not all business operations could be benefited from a website or an information system. Give examples?
  5. Apart from building a website to support online selling, sellers could sell products/services online via the social networks. Simply register an account and start your business.

Students should also understand that, from the holistic point of view, developing a website is no difference from developing a business.

Related Courses

The course 'EC websites development' has many contents overlapping with the following courses. One objective of the above courses, as well as the course 'EC website development', is to introduce the steps in the development of a system. In other words, it is about how to make a workable system. It is about making a 'good' website to support a business.

Course Content (Tentative)

Click here for the course outline and click here for the coursework project outline.
  1. Types of websites - Various websites and the businesses being supported by the websites will be introduced. Thus, it should be noted that the functionalities of a website is entirely determined by the operations being supported. Moreover, the design (including the functional requirement and the content displayed) of a website could be elegant or sophisticated.

    The following list of websites is only a partial list of websites that the instructor has placed a visit. From the types of users point of view, the interface design of the groups of websites with arterisk (*) is more complicated than others.

    There are a few points to be noted.

  2. Fundamental concpets of websites, management principles and system development.

  3. Critical factors for a website development.

  4. Customer-oriented (resp. service-oriented) thinking on operations design.

  5. Advanced topics.

Additional Sources of Learning Materials

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