From: Tom Holub (tom@LS.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 11:33:47 PDT
On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 11:53:26AM -0700, dwanders@socrates.Berkeley.EDU wrote:
> I have recently received a comment from someone who found the L&S online
> Donation page intimidating. As we seek donations from some non-native
> English speakers, I would like to pay due heed to this comment, since it
> is important to make the online donation capability as easy as possible.
>
> The person who wrote to me recommended my project, which is run through
> the Dept. of Linguistics (and can have its funds specifically allocated
> via the "Special Instructions" section), instead (or in addition?) offer
> PayPal, which he personally found helpful in running his website.
>
> Are there any in the Berkeley Webnet community who can offer advice on
> this?
> *Should we instead work with the online giving people at L&S to simplify
> the web-page (and is this likely to happen)?
> *Can a PayPal option be offered in addition?
> *Is PayPal to be avoided?
Simplifying the L&S "giving" pages could certainly happen, but I think
you're probably referring to the campus giving page, rather than the
L&S one. The L&S page at <http://ls.berkeley.edu/development/egiving.html>
is pretty simple; if you choose a department from the pop-up list, you're
sent over to the campus page, managed by University Relations and ASD.
I agree that the giving form on that site isn't that great. I would
probably advise you to contact the folks over in URel to see if PayPal
could be offered--altough I don't see how PayPal would make the form
any simpler. It might be better, if folks are having usability issues
with that page, to split it up into two or three pages (Personal Info,
Contact Info, and Method of Payment) to make it easier to chew.
-- Tom Holub (tom_holub@LS.Berkeley.EDU, 510-642-9069) Director of Computing, College of Letters & Science 249 Campbell Hall ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: Webnet information is available at <URL:http://webnet.berkeley.edu/>.
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