Class History: E-Business (Summer 2019)

Course: E-Business (Summer 2019)

Class 1

May 20, Room: Computer lab, Time: 14:20 -15:00

A brief overview of the course objective. Online registration for lab resources.

Class 2, Class 3 (Extra)

May 22, Room: 601

Time: 

14:15 -15:15 (Class 2)

15:15 - 16:00 (Class 3)

A brief review on the collaboration with Amazon AWS.

Network and internet. World wide web. How does the WWW technology work? Online and offline properties. Unique features of a well-designed online property: ubiquity, global reach, universal standard.

Class 4

May 27, Room: Computer lab, Time: 14:00 -15:30

AWS registration of the students.

Class 5

May 29, Room: 601, Time: 14:15 -15:30

Unique features of a well-designed online property: richness, information density, interactivity, personalization and customization, social technology embedded. Types of e-commerce. How does the web technology work?

Announcement: 1st assignment -- deadline June 10.

Class 6

June 12, Room: 601

Important elements of an online business model.

Class 7

June 17, Room: Computer Lab, Time: 14:35 - 16:00

Own hosting vs. conventional hosting vs. cloud computing. What is cloud computing?  Major cloud computing providers. Amazon web services.

Business model, e-commerce business model, business plan. Elements of an e-commerce business model (ability to scale, value proposition, revenue model).

Class 8

June 19, Room: 601, Time: 14:30 - 15:30

Key elements of a typical online business model. Revenue model in details. E-commerce business strategy. What usually happens when entrepreneurs try to collect funds for their online venture. Pros and cons of various routes of financing an online business. Fund collection for an online venture in the context of Bangladesh.

Class 9 (Extra)

June 19; Room 601; Time: 15:35 - 16:30

The Patreon platform. IDLC Udvabon loan. BASIS E-commerce membership.

Class 10

June 24, Room: Computer Lab, Time: 14:30 - 15:45

Venture capital and crowdfunding. 

Overview of the midterm exam syllabus.

Midterm Exam

Date: July 3 at 12:00 PM

Class 11, Class 12 (Extra)

July 15, Room: Computer Lab, 

Time: 14:30 - 15:45 (Class 11); 15:45 - 16:45 (Class 12)

What is domain name? Structure of a domain. Types of domains based on TLD. Free country code domains. 

WORKSHOP 1 (1st session): Registrar a free country code domain from Freenom and change the nameservers of this domain to CloudFlare. Set the IP address to University’s IP address.

Class 13

July 17, Room: 601, 

Time: 14:35 - 16:00

URL and its structure. Types of domain based on the “name” part of a domain. EMD, PMD, and their pros/cons. How to choose a domain name: short, no hyphen, no numbers, no complex spelling, telephone test, and radio test.

Class 14

July 22, Room: Computer Lab, 

Time: 14:45 - 16:10

The secondary marketplace for domains. SEDO and GoDaddy auctions. Escrow services. Trademark infringement, cybersquatter, and USPTO. 

Class 15

July 24, Room: 601,

Time: 14:50 - 16:00

DNS records. What is a website? Tree diagram and sitemap. Language of the web. Static vs. dynamic websites.

Class 16 (Extra)

July 24, Room: 601,

Time: 14:50 - 16:00

HTML decoding (using headings, paragraph, unordered and ordered lists, tables, bold, italic, underline, image, links).

Class 17

July 29, Room: Computer Lab, 

Time: 14:00 - 15:15

Cascading style sheets: internal vs. external. Bootstrap framework. Sample website: The world of cats. 

WORKSHOP 2 (1st session): Static website -- downloading the template site and changing various parts of this site. Host this website on the S3 platform.

Class 18

July 31, Room: 601, 

Time: 14:40 - 16:00

CSS class. More about internal and external CSS. More about Bootstrap. Amazon S3. How to connect domain to S3 bucket?

Class 19

August 5, Room: Computer Lab, 

Time: 14:50 - 15:50

WORKSHOP 2 (2nd session): Static website -- downloading the template site and changing various parts of this site. Host this website on the S3 platform.

Class 20 (Extra)

August 5, Room: Computer Lab, 

Time: 14:50 - 15:50

WORKSHOP 1 (2nd session): Registrar a free country code domain from Freenom and change the nameservers of this domain to CloudFlare. Set the IP address to University’s IP address.

Class 21

August 7, Room: Computer Lab, 

Time: 14:40 - 15:40

The target properties of the “a” tag.

WORKSHOP 2 (3rd session): Static website -- downloading the template site and changing various parts of this site. Host this website on the S3 platform.

Class 22

August 19, Room: Computer Lab, 

Time: 15:30 - 17:00

WORKSHOP 3: Setting up corporate email server on the registered domain using the Russian Yandex Connect platform.

Class 23, Class 24 (Extra)

August 21, Room: 601, 

Time: 15:00 - 16:00 (Class 23); 16:00 - 17:05 (Class 24)

Security and safety measures for an E-commerce site. HTTP, HTTPS, and SSL. Google Analytics. Privacy policy. 

Class 25, Class 26 (Extra), Class 27 (Extra)

August 26, Room: Computer Lab, 

Time: 

14:30 - 15:45 (Class 24)

15:45 - 17:00 (Class 26)

17:00 - 18:00 (Class 27)

The concept of hosing a WordPress site on the EC2 instance of AWS.

WORKSHOP 4: Launching a WordPress site on the EC2 instance using AMI. Connecting the WordPress site to the “store” subdomain via “A” record. Converting the WordPRess site into an online store by Installing WooCommerce plugin.

WORKSHOP 5: Securing the whole domain (both sites on “www” and :”store” subdomain) using the CloudFlare’s flexible SSL.

Class 28, Class 29 (Extra)

August 28, Room: 601, 

Time: 

15:00 - 16:15 (Class 28)

16:15 - 17:00 (Class 29)

The basics of SEO.

Review of the final exam syllabus. 

MCQ Quiz. 

Project.

Final Exam

September 4, at 14:00, room 701

Syllabus: Chapter 3 - 6.

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