Chidi's Hub: The Computing Blog

Storyset (2020) My E-Commerce website will be selling Musical Instruments and materials, including courses, and books.  The business model for my E-Commerce website is both  B2C and B2B. This is because I will offer sale not only to individual instrumentalists, musicians or music enthusiasts, but also to organizations such as churches, schools, theatres, concert halls and many more. These would make up my target market. The business name for my E-Commerce website is  Clef Musicals .  My tagline / slogan is :  "...w here sound meets soul". I researched the following competitor E-Commerce websites: https://www.intasound-music.co.uk/  https://www.techinabox.co.uk/  https://jordanguitars.co.uk/  https://just-music.edan.io/  https://iconmusicuk.com/ All of the aforementioned websites offer a unique range of products, however, lacking by way of product affordability, user-friendly design, and variety of products. These will be the points I will work on, and incorporate into my webs

Macrovector (2020)                                                                                                     There are several types of e-commerce. In today's blog post we shall discuss these different types, as well as highlight a few examples. Business-to-Business (B2B)                                                                                                Rawpixel.com (2018)                                                                                                     This type of electronic commerce refers to "the electronic exchange of products, services or information between businesses rather than between businesses and consumers. Examples include online directories and product and supply exchange websites that let businesses search for products, services and information and initiate transactions through e-procurement interfaces. A Forrester report published in 2018 predicted that by 2023, B2B e-commerce will reach $1.8 trillion dollars and account

Creativeart (2016) Being a musician, it has always been a hassle locating new, used or affordable instruments and musical materials online. Usually, you would have to visit separate websites for this. However, my initial project idea for a website is to incorporate a solution to this problem into an all-inclusive website for musical organizations, such as churches or schools, and musicians themselves to be able to access both instruments and materials for learning easily and efficiently. Reference List            Creativeart (2016) Free photo: Web design concepts with blurred background , Freepik . Available at: https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/web-design-concepts-with-blurred-background_902858.htm#query=website%20development&position=27&from_view=search&track=sph (Accessed: January 29, 2023).

Storyset (2022) Like most concepts in the world, and across several fields, anything that has an advantage, has a disadvantage, and vice verca. This is not misplaced in meta tags. This blog post will highlight some of the top advantages and disadvantages of meta tags. Advantages It's rumored that certain search engines still utilize meta description tags. By including such a tag on each page, it's possible that these pages may have an SEO benefit when indexed by those search engines. However, this has not been conclusively proven and its impact on SEO performance may vary. It is recommended to include relevant and concise meta descriptions for all pages to improve the visibility and click-through rate for users, regardless of the specific search engine used. ( Peach 2008) The meta description tag may show up in search results for certain search engines, particularly if it includes the searched keyword. The appearance of the meta description tag varies among search engines, as s

                                                                                                                   Pch.vector (2020) A meta tag is a brief  line of code that appears in the HTML code of a web page, typically located in the header section after the title tag and before the meta keywords tag. It is used to provide a summary of the content on the webpage. When working on improving a webpage's search engine ranking, it is generally considered good practice to include a meta description tag. Prior to the change in search engine algorithms, the keywords included in a website's meta description tag could affect its ranking on a search results page. However, Google stated in 2009 that it no longer takes into account meta descriptions or keywords when determining a website's ranking. Despite this, the meta description may still be displayed on the search results page if Google cannot find relevant content on the page using the searched keywords.  Contributor, T.T. (2

  Redgreystock (2022)                                                                                                                             According to Griffin LaFleur, "search engine optimization is the science of improving a website to increase its visibility when people search for products or services. The more visibility a website has on search engines, the more likely it is that brand captures business."  LaFleur, G. (2022) He also goes further to state that "website visibility is commonly measured by the placement -- or ranking -- of the site on search engine results pages (SERPs). And companies always vie for the first page, where they are most likely to garner the most attention."  LaFleur, G. (2022) LaFleur explains that "search engines use bots to crawl all website pages, downloading and storing that information into a collection known as an index. This index is like a library and when someone searches for something in it, the search engine a

Vectorjuice (2020)                                                                                                                              "The World Wide Web -- also known as the web, WWW or W3 -- refers to all the public websites or pages that users can access on their local computers and other devices through the internet. These pages and documents are interconnected by means of hyperlinks that users click on for information. This information can be in different formats, including text, images, audio and video." ( Awati, 2022) It is important to note that "the term World Wide Web isn't synonymous with the internet. Rather, the World Wide Web is part of the internet." ( Awati, 2022) "British physicist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Along with colleagues at Geneva-based CERN -- the European Organization for Nuclear Research -- Berners-Lee had been working on the concept since 1989. Their goal was to combine available technologies and dat

                                                                                                  Starline (2021) In our recent updates, we have discussed the meanings , history , and properties of e-commerce websites. We shall however be evaluating the differences and similarities between the homepages of two notable e-commerce websites in this post. Our case studies will be Amazon and Jumia . Headers              Fig 1: Jumia        [Jumia (2023)]                                           Fig 2: Amazon        [Amazon (2023)] Looking at the two pictures above, we can see a noticeable difference in the color schemes and themes/layouts of these e-commerce websites. On the left, the Jumia homepage shows a lighter colour scheme with majorly whites, light blues and oranges, while the Amazon homepage, to the right, has colours picked from both the lighter and darker parts of the color wheel, with colours like white and yellow, and also darker shades of blue and purple.  I find the colour s

                                                                                                                    Macrovector (2021) According to senior technology editor, Peter Loshin, a program is a set of ordered operations for a computer to perform. This usually does contain a one-at-a-time sequence of instructions that the computer carries out. (Loshin, 2021) Wikipedia defines Computer programming as "the process of performing a particular computation (or more generally, accomplishing a specific computing result), usually by designing and building an executable computer program." (Wikipedia, 2023) Below, we will be going through some of the most notable computer programming languages, as well as some of their uses and functions. HTML   This stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It is one of the most widely-used programming languages today. Ben Lutkevich, a technical features writer describes it as "a text-based approach to describing how content contained within a