[thelist] beta site using Authorize.net

[Kristy Frey]

A Lot of good suggestions.

Just to cover a few things:
I dont get to determine what form fields are asked for and what is required because I'm just the
programmer
(i work for the state - we have commitees that meet all the time to decide this - I wish i was
kidding)

--- aardvark <roselli at earthlink.net> wrote:
> - wider than my 640 window...

By about 60 right? My main table width is 700. "they* made me do it" *people higher than me that
thought 640 looked too narrow.

> - red is required, but red implies all sorts of other things... the 
> asterisk is good for the color blind, but have you considered leaving 
> the field labels all black and using boldness to delineate required 
> fields?

agreed.

> - labels should be used on all form fields, especially ones with 
> radio buttons...

agreed. me lazy. get to it later.

> - is middle inital required?  if not, then why is it referenced in red?

Nope, Just used the layout from the old site - https://ubfoundation.buffalo.edu/giving/ (i didn't
have anything to do with that old site - but i was told I have to gather the same data)

> - why does my email receipt have a section for shipping info?
> 
> - can you make the email receipt wrap the text at some character 
> length?

Email receipt is the standard Authorize.net receipt.  They actually generate it.  I only get to
pass header and footer.

> - my transaction expired?  i only left the computer to get all the 
> things i wanted on my brick, then my mom called, and the sauce 
> was burning... ugh... ok, fake scenario aside, you could use hidden 
> fields to hold the data independent of sessions if you just didn't ask 
> for personal info up-front like socsec number... oh, wait, you do... 
> and yet it expires?  hmm...

I expire after an hour. Frankly I'm paranoid about session stealing.
(http://www.evolt.org/article/Session_Hijacking_Cold_Fusion_Dynamic_Proxies/20/3516/index.html)
I might be convinced to extend it to 2 hours. (3 for buy a brick)

> - what's with the embedded (instead of linked) CSS?  and the 
> styles you call that aren't up there?

That section is created dynamically because I have given UB Schools and Units access to change
things like color settings, fonts, logos, etc.  The entire page is created according to which
school or unit at UB links to it (I only gave the link to the generic page).  Some examples:

School of Architecture & Planning -
https://ubfoundation.buffalo.edu/kristytest/giving/general/Page1.php?sub_site_code=0226

Graduate School of Education -
https://ubfoundation.buffalo.edu/kristytest/giving/general/Page1.php?sub_site_code=0232

School of Engineering &  Applied Science -
https://ubfoundation.buffalo.edu/kristytest/giving/general/Page1.php?sub_site_code=0301

Law School -
https://ubfoundation.buffalo.edu/kristytest/giving/general/Page1.php?sub_site_code=0317

School of Management -
https://ubfoundation.buffalo.edu/kristytest/giving/general/Page1.php?sub_site_code=0377

School of Social Work -
https://ubfoundation.buffalo.edu/kristytest/giving/general/Page1.php?sub_site_code=0372

School of Dental Medicine -
https://ubfoundation.buffalo.edu/kristytest/giving/general/Page1.php?sub_site_code=0424

School of Health Related Professions -
https://ubfoundation.buffalo.edu/kristytest/giving/general/Page1.php?sub_site_code=0448

School of Medicine & Biomedical Science -
https://ubfoundation.buffalo.edu/kristytest/giving/general/Page1.php?sub_site_code=0456

School of Nursing -
https://ubfoundation.buffalo.edu/kristytest/giving/general/Page1.php?sub_site_code=0494

School of Pharmacy -
https://ubfoundation.buffalo.edu/kristytest/giving/general/Page1.php?sub_site_code=0508

Roswell Park Institute -
https://ubfoundation.buffalo.edu/kristytest/giving/general/Page1.php?sub_site_code=0528

Division of Athletics -
https://ubfoundation.buffalo.edu/kristytest/giving/general/Page1.php?sub_site_code=0581

College of Arts and Sciences -
https://ubfoundation.buffalo.edu/kristytest/giving/general/Page1.php?sub_site_code=1084

As for the styles not up there - I think you are referring to the classes on many of the table
components.  They are there for future use (when, if ever, stylesheets become the absolute
standard).  Currently, many properties (table or cell backgroung colors padding and alignment…)
are set right on the tag because the site still needs to look "somewhat" ok on older browsers. 
Eventually, I'd like more of the properties to be set by the style (When we decide we will no
longer support Netscape 3).

Wow that's a lotta stuff...

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