Website of a plywood and hardware company

Bc. Meet Radheshyambhai Thakkar

Master's thesis

Abstract:

In the past decade, Internet use has expanded immensely and very easily. For Several companies and associations, websites have been the most significant public relations medium. By 2014 the Internet users were 87% of adults of 18 years of age or older. Since communications between companies and customers are largely online, website architecture is important for users to participate (Rubab et al. 2018). Poorly built websites will thwart visitors and contribute to a high "bounce rate," or people who visit the entry site are unable to explore other sections. On the other side, it has been noticed that a well built website with high usability has a positive impact on user retention (revisit rates) and on buying results. However, there has been no study to identify the basic elements that make up successful website design for a plywood and hardware company. Usability is one of the key design actions. The ISO defines usability as the degree of performance, efficiency and satisfaction (user experience) inside the framework allowing users to perform the required tasks (Hasibuan, Triayudi, & Sari, 2020). There is little agreement at the present time as to how to run and test website usability properly. Nielson, for example, blends learnability, performance, memorability, error and satisfaction with usability. Download time, navigation, information, interactivity and responsiveness decide usability. As with accessibility there are also no specific descriptions of certain other main concept products including scannability, legibility and graphic aesthetics and no clear rules to be adopted by individuals when creating websites to enhance participation. This study is aimed at answering this question by defining and consolidating key elements of website design for a plywood and hardware company which, according to previous research studies, influence user participation. Proper architecture has been a core feature for smartphone and internet users to connect with (Firdaus, Maiyendra, & Wahyuni, 2020). There has been no study into the basic elements for successful architecture of the website and the smartphone device. We aim to study, consolidate, and describe a short list of elements widely used to perform analysis. Navigation, graphic representation, organization, material usefulness, intent, simplicity and readability were the design elements most commonly listed in the updated literature. We address the concept and assessment of those 7 components in previous studies. This analysis and subsequent short list of design elements will allow designers and analysts to operate best practices in order to encourage and anticipate consumer participation. This review seeks to identify the most frequently demonstrated or recommended elements of website design that maximizes user involvement (Ruzza et al. 2017). On the basis of this outcome, we have mentioned and identified a short list of design elements that render user interaction simpler and more predictable. The thesis is thus an exploratory analysis that offers explanations of these website design features as well as a framework for potential study.

Keywords

PHP, MySQL, UML, WebML, plywood and hardware industry

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 31. 3. 2021

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: doc. Ing. Vojtěch Merunka, Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Master programme / field:
Systems Engineering and Informatics / Informatics