Introduction to Computers and Information Systems Electronic Commerce Business use of the Internet is moving from an electronic information exchange to a broad platform for strategic business applications. Applications like collaboration among business partners, researching competitors, providing customer and vendor support, and buying and selling products and services have become major business uses of the Internet. The Internet and Internet-based technologies such as intranets and extranets provide global links to a companies customers and suppliers. This enables electronic commerce applications - marketing, buying, selling, and support of products and services over these networks.
Electronic commerce is more than just buying and selling products online.
Instead, it encompasses the entire online process of developing, marketing, selling, delivering, servicing, and paying for products and services purchased by inter-networked, global virtual companies of customers, with the support of a worldwide network of business partners. An HTML file is a simple text file that contains text and markup tags. This is a simple web page with one line of text. Web pages are created in a variety of environments. If you are so inclined and have a great resource for typing in the markup tags required to display your web page inside a browser, you may only choose to use a simple text editor such as Notepad or MS Word.