Information Systems Assignment1

UU-MBA-740-ZM Web design and development

Assignment 1 Dear students,

This is your first assignment for this course that accounts for 50% of your total marks for the course.

Please answer and elaborate on the following questions:

1. What do you need to take into consideration when you are about to choose

which server will host your website? Explain the reasons that helped to make your selection and elaborate on your answer.

2. Explain how hosting can level up your business. Name the advantages of hosting and how these are affecting the progression of your business. Please elaborate on your answer.

3. What is WordPress? What are its features? Please explain and elaborate on the features.

4. What are WordPress plugins? Please describe their basic operation and how they benefit the website. Is WordPress good for SEO? Elaborate on your

answer. 5. Is a website on WordPress safe? What security limitations do we have? How

do we handle them? Are there any alternatives? Compare the available

solutions and decide which is the safest to use on your website. Please elaborate on your answer.

Word Count: 3000 words (maximum)

Submit to VLE the following:

Your answers in a pdf document.

Your work needs to be well written and have quality information. Your work must be clear and must be able to educate someone with no prior knowledge in the field of Web Design and Development.

Notes: • Please read and apply the rules for referencing. • The assignment is your own individual work. I expect all sent assignments to

be very different from one another even if they are based on the same topic. • The deadline is the end of week 4. • This is worth 50% of your mark

UU-MBA-740-ZM Web Design and Development