In completing this graduate project I have been fortunate to have help, support and
encouragement from many people. I would like to acknowledge them for their cooperation.
First and foremost deeply thankful to Professor Dr. Soon-Ok Park, for her wonderful guidance
during this project work in field of Computer Science, at Governors State University. I am also
thankful for her continuous feedback and encouragement throughout this project work. Her
broad knowledge and hardworking attitude has left me with very deep impressions and they will
greatly benefit me throughout my life.
Anyone can view Online Shopping portal and available products, but every user must login by
his/her Username and password in order to purchase or order products. Unregistered members
can register by navigating to registration page. Only Admin will have access to modify roles, by
default developer can only be an ‘Admin’. Once user register site, his default role will be ‘User’.
Pages of the website must be access in the way they were intended to be accessed.
Included files shall not be accessed outside of their parent file.
Administrator can only perform administrative task on pages they are privileged to
access. Customers will not be allowed to access the administrator pages.
The Internet has become a major resource in modern business, thus electronic shopping has
gained significance not only from the entrepreneur’s but also from the customer’s point of
view. For the entrepreneur, electronic shopping generates new business opportunities and for
the customer, it makes comparative shopping possible.
As per a survey, most consumers of online stores are impulsive and usually make a decision to
stay on a site within the first few seconds. “Website design is like a shop interior. If the shop
looks poor or like hundreds of other shops the customer is most likely to skip to the other site.
Hence we have designed the project to provide the user with easy navigation, retrieval of data
and necessary feedback as much as possible. In this project, the user is provided with an ecommerce web site that can be used to buy books online. To implement this as a web
application we used ASP.NET as the Technology. ASP.NET has several advantages such as
enhanced performance, scalability, built-in security and simplicity.