Opportunities to enhance a commercial website

This article describes a framework of analysis that categorizes features of website design in a matrix of business functions versus customer values. The framework supports a development plan for a commercial website that may involve all aspects of a transaction. It also includes examples of Web features that could he evaluated from the visitor or customer perspective. As customers might have a different view from the company, the framework chooses Web features that are directly related to customer values: those which may bring only strategic advantages to the company but are intangible to customers are deliberately ignored. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.