[tei-council] Shopping cart tryout
Daniel Paul O'Donnell
daniel.odonnell at gmail.com
Mon Aug 17 17:47:24 EDT 2009
Thanks very much Lou: as always, it is in the titles that you miss
things like that.
I designed the pepper pots; I believe James designed the funny logo.
Glad you find them as amusing as I do!
-dan
Lou Burnard wrote:
> 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!
>>
>
--
Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Associate Professor of English
University of Lethbridge
Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/)
Co-Chair, Digital Initiatives Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America
President-elect (English), Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (http://sdh-semi.org/)
Founding Director (2003-2009), Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/)
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