Mountain High RV Sales offers new and used recreational vehicles (RVs) and campers. The company has a dealer network, but also maintains a Web site where prospective buyers and sellers can browse through the inventory of new and used RVs and campers. Mountain High has grown and needs a new web-based interface to promote online inventory searches/sales, support dealer operations, and gather information about prospective customers. The owner asked you to provide a sample web-based customer screen design and identify reports that could be produced to support management. 1. Prospective buyers might want to search the RV and camper inventory by features, size, price range, and manufacturer. Develop a screen design to search on these choices for review with the Mountain High personnel. The design can be a non-functional mock-up built with an MS Office drawing tool.

Mountain High RV Sales offers new and used recreational vehicles (RVs) and campers. The company has a dealer network, but also maintains a Web site where prospective buyers and sellers can browse through the inventory of new and used RVs and campers. Mountain High has grown and needs a new web-based interface to promote online inventory searches/sales, support dealer operations, and gather information about prospective customers. The owner asked you to provide a sample web-based customer screen design and identify reports that could be produced to support management. 1. Prospective buyers might want to search the RV and camper inventory by features, size, price range, and manufacturer. Develop a screen design to search on these choices for review with the Mountain High personnel. The design can be a non-functional mock-up built with an MS Office drawing tool.

Fundamentals of Information Systems

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ISBN:9781337097536

Author:Ralph Stair, George Reynolds

Publisher:Ralph Stair, George Reynolds

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