Subject: Re: [thelist] how design affects ecommerce

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Hi Shoshanna (plus everyone else annoyed with poor localisation and
everyone who has an international audience)

Take a look at Isaac's fine article:
http://evolt.org/article/thelist/4090/15118/index.html
on how to avoid getting this wrong.

Cheers
Martin




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I'll tell you a small story that heppened just yesterday:
My boyfriend recently finished a web site, got a domain, and finally
decided
on a web host we heard good stuff about. Last night we went to the host's
site, in order to sign up for the service. Small detail: we are now living
in France (we have an International credit card), and the host is from the
US.
1st stage: choose domain or choose "transfer domain".
Obviosly, we choose the 2nd option.
Then, enter a phone number. Should be easy. Nope.
The form accepts (via "maxlength") phone numbers only in the following (US)
format:
xxx- xxx- xxxx
10 digits totall.
however, being in France, our phone number is:
33 4 xx xx xx xx
11 digits totall.
Oopps.
Even if we ignor the format, we are still unable to fill out the correct
phone number.

Guess what? My boyfriend signed up at some other host.

I wonder how many companies are loosing business from issues like this?


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