A big topic for a Friday I know, but with the release of the latest report imminent, I thought I’d add my two cents to the pot.
I don’t get it.
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I can't stand cakes
Now, you wouldn’t think a cake stand would be such an issue, would you? They generally cost about £20 to hire (with anything up to £75 refundable deposit) – the issue is getting them back. So we’ve tasked the brides mother to try and sort that one out – at least the place of hire will then be close to the venue and therefore easier to return. Hmmm.
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BMTG goes online
The BMTG website now has an on-line ticket ordering system.
As it’s early days to see how much income it produces, I’ve gone for the easy option – a one way interface with PayPal, who are also providing simple cart facilities.
The ticket screen has been updated and a new MySQL back-end database has been introduced. The ticket screen now automatically produces ticket details, with PayPal links, for multiple shows. It will even remove a performance after the date has passed.
Longer term, if it all takes off, I might implement my own system where you can pick seats from a map, and we can control ticket availability. But that’s to come. Potentially.
Meantime I continue to “have discussions” with the committee over how much they charge customers for buying on-line.
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You Couldn't Make It Up
GMTV, I think it was ,were talking yesterday about Kate Middleton, girlfriend of Prince William. They were talking about how she had been hounded by the media, how intrusive they were, etc.
So to discuss it further they went over live to their reporter… outside Kate Middleton’s home.
They wouldn’t have spotted the irony if it came and slapped them in the face.
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Stop Me and Buy One
A new year and lots more web work.
First of all, and the biggie, is adding on-line ticket sales to the BMTG site. All of this is being processed by PayPal. It’s now received committee approval and my final design has been tested today… hopefully it will all go live by the end of the week.
The back-end is a MySQL database containing two tables – one containing the ticket details and the other is a control table for the on-line charges. The ticket page then uses PHP to access the database and construct it’s content, including ticket tables, PayPal links and even writing the description at the top of the page to describe any processing fees (they currently intend to charge just a set charge per ticket bought on-line, but in case they want to do something more complex, such as add P&P fees or per-transaction fees, I’ve added that in).
However, how many sales it will generate I’m not sure about.. I remain sceptical (especially as there’s a 50p processing charge).
I’ve also changed the majority of the sites pages as I improve accessibility – nothing visually has changed, but a lot of code has been modified.
Meantime I’ve found a problem with my earlier change to make the YouTube code valid. It seems that when I blank the screen using script.aculo.us code, the YouTube video stays highlighted, getting the way of any photos displayed. This only occurs on one screen (the only one where video and photos are in close proximity) so I’ve had to change that back to the original YouTube code whilst I investigate further.