[tei-council] Shopping cart tryout

[Lou Burnard]

http://zencart2.kakelbont.homelinux.net/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=12

says "Subscribe as an Institution or Project"

as does 
http://zencart2.kakelbont.homelinux.net/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=12&products_id=48

Where did those funny logos with pepper pots come from, by the way?


Daniel Paul O'Donnell wrote:
> Hi Lou,
> 
> An important quick question (ignoring for the moment other points you 
> make that are self-explanatory):
> 
>> 5. More seriously, the text talks about "subscribing as an institution 
>> or a project", which is very confusing. Elsewhere on the site, we've 
>> been careful to use the term "membership" and variants thereon 
>> strictly for what institutions do, and the term "subscription" and 
>> variants thereon strictly for what individuals do. (At least that's 
>> what I remember us doing"!). This is a handy distinction which your 
>> current wording obfuscates. Please change it to "Become a member 
>> institution or project" passim.
> Do you know which page this happens on? I agree absolutely with you 
> about the language and its importance, but I'm not seeing this. I'm 
> seeing lots of places where it uses "join the tei as an individual or an 
> institution," sometimes with "individual (subscriber) or institution 
> (member)" specified, and I'm seeing lots of places where it explicitly 
> distinguishes among the different categories (e.g. "Individuals may 
> subscribe online now using our new webstore. Institutions, which 
> typically require invoices, currently should contact the membership 
> secretary <mailto:membership at tei-c.org> to open or renew a membership"). 
> I'm not seeing anywhere where it says "subscribing as an institution or 
> a project"--no doubt it is there and I'm just overlooking it, but since 
> this development server isn't open to google, I can't find it. If you 
> could point me to a specific place where that language is collapsed like 
> that, I'd like to fix it before we go live! It is of course a crucial 
> distinction and certainly one I tried to maintain throughout; so far, 
> I've not found a single example.
> 
> Thanks very much for reading the site so carefully!
>