[tei-council] Shopping cart tryout

[David Sewell]

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Elena Pierazzo wrote:

> 3. In general I find a bit disturbing the commercial vocabulary
> ('shopping cart', 'customer') as when you register for a conference
> you are not really purchasing goods.

I think that "shopping cart (or 'basket')" is the de facto standard term
for Web-based purchase transactions, even on academic sites. But
"customer" could be changed to something else.

It worked fine for me up to the email registration stage, as predicted.
I assume that there is some error-checking at the back end for
well-formed email addresses, etc?

Should the field for "Telephone" and "Fax Number" specify whether or not
to begin with the country code?

David


> Elena
> On 12 Aug 2009, at 21:43, Daniel Paul O'Donnell wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We are very close to launching a shopping cart for online conference
> > registration and subscription. I'd appreciate volunteers for a dry
> > run.
> > Here's the development URL: http://zencart2.kakelbont.homelinux.net/
> >
> > You need a username and password to access the URL: /u guest /p tseug
> >
> > I won't give any more instructions: let me know how well you can see
> > what you need to do and whether or not it works. An error arises at
> > the
> > very last stage of a purchase or registration because the email is not
> > set up on this test server. We are particularly interested in the
> > conference registration, since that has got to open very soon.
> >
> > There are other ways of doing things, so let me know if this is not
> > clear.
> >
> > -dan
> >
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Paul O'Donnell
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> > University of Lethbridge
> >
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> > )
> >
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