Business Web Site Evaluation

These principles offer a disciplined approach to achieving the most competitive website . Engineering principles will ultimately affect profit costs of bad design are high . Our client must consider the Quality Requirements addressed by (Pressman , 2000 ) and aim to maximize performance in usability , functionality , reliability efficiency and maintainability . Engineering principles will prevent problems with outdated or irrelevant information , slow response , crashes or security breaches to which web applications are sensitive

Engineering principles will minimize risk improve quality maintainability and scalability (Murugesan et al , 1999 ) Software Configuration Management and Quality Control should

be addressed to maintain standards . Testing will help our client plan , monitor , control and cope with the challenge of their web application

Legal and security issues

Legal and ethical issues are vital to online success . Building trust and user confidence is essential to our client , respecting consumer privacy and adhering to data protection legislation "Consumers are extremely concerned about security and privacy on the Internet (Trepper , 2000 Amazon 's Safe Shopping Guarantee means customers pay nothing if unauthorized charges are made to their credit cards as a result of shopping at Amazon . They use secure sockets layer (SSL ) technology encrypting all personal information "Amazon takes customer fears about security seriously (Chaffey , 2004 ) we strongly recommend VG Jones emulate Amazon 's security policies to provide customer reassurance

Amazon makes clear terms of trade and offer warranties /returns policy They address copyright , patents and trademark protection , which is quite distinguishing factor

Conclusion

Amazon 's homepage acted as an overview to their site , emphasizing reasons for use and product variety . Their path based homepage was inter-related to navigation helping segment users into areas of interest . Design demonstrably fits context of use

It was found Amazon 's fundamental goal was profit but competition is intense in the virtual marketplace . Usability was inter-related to many...