Friday, June 03, 2005

Friendlier shopping

I've simplified the shopping process. Instead of those nasty pulldown shipping menus, we now have radio buttons. You can see an example on the Chocolate Chip Brownies page.

Solving one problem causes two more, of course. If you buy the abovementioned brownies, you'll see a Shipping Estimate in your Shopping Cart and Shipping Method on the Checkout screen. This is because we haven't assigned fixed shipping prices to everything in the catalog yet. Once we do, those confusing choices will be gone forever.

Until then, if you see shipping choices with values of $0.00, it means that you've already chosen your shipping method, so you can ignore them.

Jakob Nielsen would have my head for this, maybe with a little mercy for using radio buttons.

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