Constructing Usable Shopping Carts

Description:

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.

In Constructing Usable Shopping Carts, we take all the hassle out of online shopping applications, by showing you how to plan your application, design the user interface and data store, and code the entire thing. But it doesn’t stop there – we provide the full code for two complete shopping cart applications, customizable for your own needs.

What you’ll learn:

• Planning and designing an entire e-commerce application
• Implementing the product catalog, shopping cart, and checkout system
• Making your web application secure

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.

 

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: E-Commerce and Shopping Carts

Chapter 2: Information Architecture For Shopping Systems

Chapter 3: User Interface and Interaction Design

Chapter 4: DataStore

Chapter 5: Product Display

Chapter 6: The Shopping Cart

Chapter 7: Checkout Time

Chapter 8: Staying Secure

Resources

Index