TEB: A Template-Based E-commence Website Builder for SMEs

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in China feature their big quantity and fast developing speed. Itpsilas a huge requirement for them to establish e-commence business through their website portals. This paper proposes a template-based E-commence website Builder (TEB) for them, which is easy to use and flexible to extend. Each template in TEB is composed of multiple template pages with tags. Template engine can parse the pages and tags and construct template websites in an intelligent way. The appearance design of a template is separated from the data tag development. These tasks are distributed to different actors to perform in a simultaneous way. A case study shows the efficiency of website building and template development with built-in tools of TEB.