Developing an e-commerce Website for Spicetown Oy, using Drupal.

Abstract

This project is aimed at creating a website to be used for e-commerce by Spicetown Oy, a wholesaler of African and Asian food products based in Helsinki. Spicetown Oy is a traditional brick-and-mortar business in the process of transitioning into a business model combining tra-ditional business carried out on physical premises with running an online shop. The main aim of this project is to design and build a website with an online store for Spicetown Oy. The website is implemented using Drupal, a Content Management System, to make it possible for the website to be managed and administered by people with basic technical ability. This thesis report documents the theoretical and practical steps taken to research and build the online shopping website.