Building an ASP.NET AJAX Server-Centric Based Online Shopping Website - System General Design
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System General Design
In this section, let's first take a bird's eye view of the general design of the whole system, which will include the design's functionality and architecture as well as the design of the module operation flow. We'll examine each of these one by one.
Functionalities
From the point of view of functionality, the sample application in this series mainly consists of the following parts: registration and login modules, user management modules and role management modules. Concretely, however, the online shopping city application includes the following modules:
1. Registration and Login Modules
These modules mainly provide the following functionalities:
Registering user information.
Submitting user information.
User login.
User logoff.
2. User and Role Management Modules
These modules mainly undertake the tasks of managing users and roles, as well as specifying different roles, as follows:
Role management.
Adding roles.
Editing roles.
User management.
Adding background users.
3. Viewing, Shopping, and Order Modules
These parts comprise the following:
Viewing products.
Buying goods.
Viewing the shopping cart.
Submitting the order.
Making comments on the related goods.
Leaving word.
4. Product Searching Modules
Generally there are two kinds of search functions that need to be supported by most real-scenario applications: simple searching and advanced searching. Both of them are achieved in this online shopping application.
5. User Info Center Modules
These modules mainly bear the responsibility of providing users with various kinds of operations, such as modifying their passwords. In detail, they include:
Modifying password.
Modifying personal information.
Viewing personal information.
Viewing order information.
6. Product and Order Management Modules
These modules are as follows:
Product category management.
Adding product categories.
Modifying product categories.
Product management.
Adding products.
Modifying products.
Product comment management.
Order management.
7. Information Center Management
This set of modules carries out the tasks of issuing and managing related information for the whole system, as follows:
News management.
Issuing news.
Modifying news.
Setting up the bulletin board(s).
Comment management.
8. The Online Shopping City Foreground Modules
As a practical online shopping application, the following modules should be included:
News module.
Operation module.
Bulletin board module.
Customer functionality module.
Product suppliers' functionality module.
Super administrator functionality module.
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