[tei-council] Shopping cart tryout

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Thu Aug 13 13:37:29 EDT 2009


"basket" (and an associated icon) is more euphonious than "shopping 
cart" . In Britlish, these are called "trolleys" anyway (and in French, 
"chariots" if you're interested)

"purchaser" might be marginally less annoying than "customer"


Daniel Paul O'Donnell wrote:
> Hi Elena,
>
> You're not alone in finding the language disturbing: Lou and Christian 
> had similar comments in earlier iterations. David's right I think about 
> the "shopping cart" part: that just is the language. But the customer 
> thing is the result of a slightly different problem: we are going to be 
> using this for three different things, conference registration, 
> subscription/membership, and selling the print guidelines--all of which 
> are linked (i.e. because of member discounts).
>
> Unfortunately, whatever term we use has to fit all three cases, since it 
> is not cost effective to use three different specialised services to 
> handle each type of transaction (there are individual services that 
> specialise in each type of sale, but subscribing to 3 different ones 
> looked quite expensive in the initial research I did, and of course, you 
> then end up with the problem of multiple vendor databases.
>
> If anybody has a brilliant solution, I'm all ears!
> -dan
>
> Elena Pierazzo wrote:
>   
>> Hi, Tried it and seems intuitive and easy.
>> A couple of remarks:
>>
>> 1. The website is very slow
>> 2. The affiliation field for the Conference tag is too short (32 chars 
>> if I got it right) and 'Centre for Computing in the Humanities' 
>> doesn't fit.
>> 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.
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
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>>> Daniel Paul O'Donnell
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>>> University of Lethbridge
>>>
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>> -- 
>> Dr Elena Pierazzo
>> Research Associate
>> Centre for Computing in the Humanities
>> King's College London
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>> London WC2B 5RL
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
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