The Memorial Union at UW-Madison
offers a wide range of summer minicourses from Artistry to Yoga. The
Union wanted a web-based version of their course catalog with an
e-commerce component. Design a storefront for customers with
different needs. Create a navigation model that allowed prospective
students to search for a specific course or by a course category. Link
the Union's in-house MS Access database to the on-line course catalog
and allow students to register and pay on line. The new site ( http://www.wisc.edu/minicourses/ )
would have a course catalog plus
the ability to sign up for a course and to accept payment
electronically. DoIT already has the infrastructure in place to accept
credit card payments over the web and have an organization's internal
account credited. The original database was migrated from MS Access to
Oracle so that the on-line store could communicate with our e-commerce
infrastructure. The Union now has a rock-solid, database-driven site
that can be administered from web screens (the bottom image shows how to
modify a class which is immediately displayed in the roster, middle
screen). For more information, call Tech Consulting at 265-SHOW(7469) or send
email.
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