[tei-council] Webstore now available

Daniel Paul O'Donnell daniel.odonnell at gmail.com
Fri Aug 21 17:47:22 EDT 2009


Hi Dot,

That's it fixed. I'd dropped a line of code at some point and it was 
having ramifications up and down the site.

Sorry for the inconvenience and please let me know if you discover 
anything else.

-dan

Dot Porter wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> I'm trying to subscribe but have run into a problem. My billing
> address is different from my mailing address (as I'm using my
> professional address for contact but my home address for billing). But
> the system assumes that the two are the same, and although there is an
> option to "change your address" on the "Payment Information" page, if
> you follow that link it takes you to a "Change Your Billing
> Information" page
> (https://tei-shop.org/index.php?main_page=checkout_payment_address)
> with the note "This is the current billing address. Please make sure
> it matches the information on your credit card statement or correct it
> using the form below." Only there is no form! Can you look into this
> please?
>
> Thanks,
> Dot
>
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Daniel Paul
> O'Donnell<daniel.odonnell at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The webstore is now available and accepting credit cards:
>> http://www.tei-shop.org/. I just signed up for a two year subscription
>> using the interface and the payment went through.
>>
>> Before I signed up, only one of us on council was a subscriber. Now that
>> it is easier than ever, let me encourage you to sign up as individuals.
>> At $50/year the rate is cheaper than many societies and the TEI, while
>> very well supported through institutional memberships, has by most
>> standards what can only be considered a very small base of individual
>> subscribers (with me it has just risen to 10).
>>
>> Perhaps more to the point, however, you can also now register for the
>> conference. Early registration closes on October 10, at which point
>> prices will start including a late fee. Currently subscribers,
>> affiliates of member institutions, and board and council members can all
>> register for $45. Full price is $90.
>>
>> The cheapest block of hotel rooms expires on September 24th.
>>
>> Thanks all very much for your help. I had a very long talk with a techie
>> at the credit card company who was a linux and xml nut--as I was telling
>> the board, he even knew who CMSMcQ was, though more for his work at the
>> W3C. He was very happy to help out the TEI. He's made a number of
>> suggestions for radical simplification (and given me a dummy account
>> with practice credit card numbers that can get accepted or rejected by
>> never transfer money) and pointed me to some sample code. I'll probably
>> ask you all to help proof a much simplified site with none of the
>> flimflam about shopping carts that Lou and Elena so correctly gagged on.
>> But that will be in the run up to the membership drive in January.
>>
>> Thanks again!
>>
>> -dan
>>
>> --
>> 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/)
>>
>> Vox: +1 403 329-2377
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>>
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-- 
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/)

Vox: +1 403 329-2377
Fax: +1 403 382-7191 (non-confidental)
Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/




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