Blog Post #2- February 6th, 2011 "The Orange Bazaar"

The Orange Bazaar's website could benefit from the use of Microsoft Excel to help keep track of the finances of all the products that my website has to offer. This includes textbooks, basketball or football tickets, any type of syracuse merchandise, or any kind of technology that needed to be bought or sold by other students.

Some of the practical uses for Excel could benefit the way that my website would work. For example, I could efficiently manage my finances. I could create a budget and track my expenses (whatever the website buys, sells, or trades) every week, month, or year. You can also use Excel to track your savings as well. My website could also use Excel by making schedules or calendars that accurately and neatly list all of the inventory that the website has in stock and neatly compile all the buys, sells, or trades that the website does.  Also, you can create many different types of lists for the website, including all the products in the website and all the prices that different students are willing to pay for or sell. The website can also use Excel to manage the mailing lists. The website should be able to recognize a certain student as a regular customer if they have shopped at the website more than once. The mailing lists would be able to keep track of all the customers and to make sure that everyone using the website is actually a Syracuse University student.

Another important feature of my website would be the web design, so the right colors should be used in the website so that the viewers and users do not have a hard time accessing or navigating the website. Light, pastel colors should be used throughout the website so that it is easy on the eyes and doesn't give the people headaches. The website would have to be color coordinated to differentiate the different products from one another. The textbooks section of the website would be light blue, the sports section of the website would be light orange, the technology section of the website would be light green, and the appliances section of the website would be light red. That way the website would be kept organized and the students would be able to navigate it easily. Also, big fonts would need to be used so that the website could be read easily.

In general, I think that the use of both Excel and web design would help keep the website organized and efficient and easy to use. It will help make the website navigable and easy to keep track of.