Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts

Tuesday, 5 July 2011

Web Design - Crucial Elements of the Shopping Cart

The shopping cart is usually that last step that is encountered by the visitor but is very critical for generation of revenue. If the visitor or prospective buyer is not comfortable with the shopping cart he/she may not buy any of the offerings made through the website and this may be harmful for the business. Some of the elements that play a crucial role in the success of the shopping cart are as follows.

• Facilitating the log out process
The log out process can be of two types; one is the step by step process and the other is the one page process.

Let us first study the step by step process. When the visitor logs in the website, the first step is Sign in. After the visitor chooses the products to be bought and added them to the shopping cart, the following step is billing and shipping. The last two steps are about payment and verification.

When all the details such as the product list, buyers details and information about shipping and billing are mentioned on a single page it is called one page process.

• Use of Table
Table is one of the ways to make complex data look simple. When the layout of the shopping cart page is based on table the information mentioned therein is easy to understand. Complex backgrounds should not be used. One should use only standard font. The cells of the table should be separated by strong borders but not stylish borders. The content of the table should be readable. A miniature image if possible should be included so that the visitor comes to know easily the product he/she has selected or ordered.

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• Visible Buttons
Buttons like “towards checkout”, “towards logout”, “add to cart” should be easily visible because if they are not properly visible to the eyes of the visitors they may be left stranded and in confusion about what to do next. The buttons should be large enough to catch the eye of the visitor. The text associated with the button should be legible and understandable.

• Redundant Fields
In the shopping cart form keep the fields that are most needed. If the visitor finds it cumbersome to fill the form just because the number of the fields is more than necessary, it could have a negative effect on the business. One should avoid adding unnecessary fields in the shopping cart form.

• Verification
Inclusion of the verification page should not be forgotten in the check out process. Most of the online buyers would like to have a last look at the things they have ordered before logging out or checking out of the website.

• Help
There should help elements like text in brackets to guide the type of information or data to be entered in different fields. Help to the visitor can also be extended by icons that are quite visible along with the text for its utility.
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Friday, 24 June 2011

Brad And Angelina Might Marry in September

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have done a lot of good in their lives. I actually don't really know any of the specifics, but I know they visit orphanages and recycle and help children and rescue things and build solar powered buildings and lots of other truly amazing things that I don't do because I'm too busy sending my mom videos of the world's first dog to receive four prosthetic legs. So to my mom, I'm doing really good things, because then she gets to share the videos with her friends who are so clueless they're trying to browse the internet in their Finder windows and my mom gets to look like a hotshot for being so hip. Obviously my do-gooding doesn't compare to Angelina and Brad's do-gooding, but who cares! Even Hallmark cards come in different sizes.

Throughout all their doing good, they've never been allowed to stop talking about when they'd get married and make their six children honest. But today comes the news that apparently, they're planning to actually tie the knot in September at their estate in France, and all their children will be involved. Sounds nice, right? It sure is! But this is a pretty new development in their relationship. You see in the past, whenever a reporter has asked them if they planned to get married, they used to say things like, "we don't need marriage. We already know we want to be together forever" and "we're too busy picking up solar panels from Home Depot to plan anything." That part was fine because they made it seem like they just didn't want to do it or believed it just wasn't the lifestyle for them. Again, that was fine. But recently, they seemed on the verge of considering marriage because a few other times when they were asked if they'd ever wed, they said they would do so when gay marriage was legalized.

Now, I'm a supporter of gay marriage. Everyone should be able to do it or not do it or whatever. I just believe it should be allowed, like how wearing overalls is. And so while I also understood how Angelina and Brad were saying that marriage doesn't symbolize anything unless it's a right that everyone has, I did not agree with their failure to realize how their incredible celebrity status meant that their allegiance to a cause made the statement that people who didn't wait to get married until the legalization of gay marriage do not have any principles and do not care about the world they live in. It was also kind of shocking that they phrased their commitment to a cause (again, one that I agree with!) in such a way that it made it seem like only once gay marriage was legal would they reward the world with their union. And even if this is entire thing is out of proportion (which it seems like it is since they might end up getting married before gay marriage is legal anyway), it's peculiar how two people who are supposed to be so in tune with other people's needs wouldn't realize how superior the proclamation of their love could come across as.

Chitika