RANSILU FURNITURE WEB STORE

Abstract

The business-to-consumer aspect of electronic commerce (e-commerce) is the most visible business use of the World Wide Web. The primary goal of an e-commerce website is to sell goods and services online. We can see a large number of web shops have been placed in the web to sell the goods and services online to the consumers. In this dissertation a web-based system has been developed for the Ransilu Furniture in the Colombo region of Sri Lanka. It aimed to build a web based system for the Ransilu Furniture. Ransilu Furniture is a company owned by a Mrs. Shamalee Muthukuda. The company has a market of local and international customers for furniture and other materials. They want to increase their sales by introducing there products through a web shop to the online consumers. Also they believe that they can promote their products by applying e-marketing concepts to the web shop. This project is based on developing an e-commerce web application for an online store of wooden furniture and other materials and consumers can place orders through the web application for Ransilu Furniture. Also some e-marketing aspects such as newsletters and articles also have been taken in to the consideration. Dynamic area admin panel can control the entire feature on both front end and back end such as product management, product categorizing, Customer Details, user management, etc... On frontend side signing / signup managing, Product searching, Customer managing areas will be handled. This system is entirely developed using the CODEIGNITER framework with MVC architecture. Mysql was used as the backend database and wamp server which includes Apache and PHP as the programming language and browser as the front end client. Also I used jquery (javaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development) to control client side activities.