QUESTION

(a) Compare the two- and three-tier Web client-server architectures, and indicate the role of each tier in each architecture. Which architecture is the most likely candidate for an electronic commerce site?

(b) ABC Wines is a small spirits importer in Mauritius that specializes in French wines. The company sells to wine retailers in countries found the Indian Ocean. The director has asked you to help the company with its first Web site design project. They would like it to include current inventories, which would only be accessible to its established customers on its Web site. The director is hoping that this will reduce the number of disappointed ABC customers who order wines, which cannot be delivered within a reasonable time period. The company has a small information systems staff that maintains its LAN and the computers that run its accounting and inventory databases, but none of the people in that department has worked with HTML.

The director would like you to research available HTML editors and make a recommendation. He expects that they will need to buy eight licenses for whichever product you choose. Prepare a report for the director in which you briefly review at least two HTML editors (ASP.NET and Macromedia Dreamweaver) highlighting only seven important features.