Your hands-on activities for dot.com are based on a fictional business. The Great Outdoors is a small sporting goods store that has changed many times over the years to meet consumer demands, and is once again looking to expand into new products and services. This time, The Great Outdoors owners have decided that the web offers a way to revamp their business affordably by holding down marketing costs and allowing them to channel their capital into production costs for the new product lines. You will play the role of one of the owners who takes on the job of designing the web site for The Great Outdoors

• If you have not already done so, read about The Great Outdoors.