Blog Entry 5.3

The cabin company would use and extranet network with the intranet network to provide their services to their customers. The internet would be used to by the inside network of the company to order supplies or other items with the firewall protecting the information being sent or received over the two networks. The server inside the company network provides service to the client computers on the network. The outside network client gets service just from the internet.  

Blog Entry 5.1

      The competing website I chose was Holiday Inn Express in Rocky Mount VA. Their business to consumer relationship involved in their website takes travelers and provides them with the service of finding accommodations to stay at their location while they are on a trip. The website is in a good state of E-Commerce and serves a good relationship with consumers. Holiday Inn uses the consumer comes first strategy to run their web page. 

Rules

  1.The Website Should Offer Something Unique

        The rating for Holiday Inn for this rule is a 3. It does not offer anything very unique that other websites do not offer. 

  2. The Website Should be aesthetically pleasing

         The rating for this rule is a 5. The layout of the site and use of color is very appealing and the photos displayed of the place are of high quality. 

  3. The Website Must be easy to use and fast

          The rating for this rule is a 5. The website is very easy to use and anything done on the site is fast. 

  4. The Website must motivate people to visit

          The rating for this rule is a 3. The website does not provide any features that cannot be found anywhere else. 

  5. You must advertise your presence on the web

         The rating for this rule is a 4. The layout and schemes stand out on the site and you know that you have visited the site when you are there. 

  6. You should learn from your website

         The rating for this rule is a 5. The Holiday Inn site has a 95% traffic rating according to alexa. 

Blog Entry 5.2

 

The cabin rental company would use an extranet to perform business with other businesses over the web. For example they may work with Priceline or other accommodation websites to rent out there cabin space. Both the cabin company and the cabin supplier use the internet to do this, with a firewall on each end of the connection to keep personal information contained. The supplier is the server of the internet in this situation and the cabin vendor is the client on this network.

Blog Entry 4.4

Entities are something you can create data about. In this entity relationship diagram, the entities are broken down into customer, product, and invoice. Attributes are what go into an entity that are used to record the data. Name is an example of an attribute under the customer entity. All three of these entities share the relationship of being information needed to record the data that is stored in the records for a cabin rental company. They are all related as the attributes are all recorded on an invoice but are then broken down into three entities. The entities and attributes are all recorded in these three tables showing the relationship to each type of attribute.

Blog Entry 4.3

On this shared network there are several users. The problem with this is that data being transmitted over the network has to be broken down into packets and sent to different places using the TCP which prepares the messages to be sent. The IP uses routers to send the messages using an IP address, which is assigned to every computer and router on the network. The IP uses these addresses to format the messages back into their proper format in order for delivery.  The receiving network computer places the message back into format so it can be read once the TCP and IP have performed their job of breaking it down and sending it over the network. 

Blog Entry 4.2

The server in this diagram is providing network service to the client computers. The hard line cable media is used to connect the two client computers along with the wireless client server router. The client server router is providing a wireless LAN to the client laptop computer. The connection to the laptop computer is using wireless media to connect the laptop with the other computers on the network. The bandwidth is currently at its maximum transmission capacity and if upgraded it will need a larger server to connect the computers to the network. 

Blog Entry 4.1

This image depicts the inputs and outputs of a computer. In order to input the word HELLO the input technology of the keyboard uses the standard ASCII binary code to transfer the letters into machine language. The input of HELLO uses process technology within the system unit and control unit to transfer the letters into binary code which is machine language to the computer. The 8-bit binary code is used to store the information into the computer using the central processing unit. The binary code transfers input technologies into on or off because that is really all a computer can understand so it must be transfer so the information can be stored. The codes that are stored into the computer are stored as binary code using the control unit and ALU to process and break down the information to be transferred into code. Whatever is processed through the computer will be output using a printer or the monitor to display the information.