Holiday Gifts

I also had the, ahem, pleasure the other week of sorting out my wedding gift list which involved going into the John Lewis store, and then zapping the barcodes of everything we wanted with a handy PDA. This would have been great fun had it not been for the fact that it was the start of the sales that day and it was a weekend. Grrrr. And what has all this to do with web stuff? Well the fact that we couldn’t do our list online was a bit annoying. In the last few years I have rarely ventured to the shops, instead preferring the comfort of being able to shop online, anywhere and anytime. That’s not to say that the web can ever replace being able to touch and feel and smell your potential wares (well not yet), and there’s certainly room for improvement with most sites. Here’s my wishlist for ecommerce sites: