Database Project Proposal
Group Members:
Muhammad Raza - 080181
Muhammad Taqi – 080178
Syed Yawar Abbas – 080079
Online Shopping
Introduction:
Shopping has long been considered a recreational activity by many. Shopping online is no
exception. The goal of this application is to develop a web based interface for online retailers.
The system would be easy to use and hence make the shopping experience pleasant for the
users. The goal of this application is
To develop an easy to use web based interface where users can search for products, view a
complete description of the products and order the products.
An ASP based website giving attractive and interactive look to the web pages and prevents the
annoying post backs.
A user can view the complete specification of the product along with various Images.
Need of the application
There are large numbers of commercial Online Shopping websites offering large number of
products tailored to meet the shopping interests of large number of customers. These online
marketplaces have thousands of products listed under various categories.
Problem:
The basic problems with the existing systems are the non-interactive environment they provide
to the users.
The use of traditional user interfaces which make continuous post backs to the server; each
post back makes a call to the server, gets the response and then refreshes the entire web form
to display the result. This scenario adds an extra trade off causing a delay in displaying the
results
A search engine that would display the results without allowing the users to further filter the
results based on various parameters.
Use of traditional and non user friendly interfaces that are hard to use
Solution:
The motive of this Online Shopping Web Application is to allow the user to play with the search
tool and buy different objects without waiting in long queues of super marts.
The users of this application can easily feel the difference between the ASP empowered user
interfaces vs. traditional user interfaces.
Provide Interactive interface through which a user can interact with different areas of
application easily.
Allow the user to add products to or remove products from the shopping cart by dragging the
products in to or out of the shopping cart.
Scope:
The current system can be extended to allow the users to create accounts and save products in
to wish list.
The users could subscribe for price alerts which would enable them to receive messages when
price for products fall below a particular level.
The current system is confined only to the shopping cart process. It can be extended to have a
easy to use check out process.