Mammy Bears Books - Using This Website

Using This Website

THE SHORTLIST/CART PAGE

Using the cart is not binding in any way.
It is a tool to help marshall items of interest and calculate costs
The page has a shortlist and cartlist, items can be moved back and forth, from one to the other
Setting a destination country or Australian Postcode is required to calculate postage
An email address is ONLY required if you want to place an order
If an order is placed, a delivery address is needed via email, text, or from paypal.
The cart identifier can be customised with the "set persistent ID" button.
IF you want to access these lists later, you must bookmark an appropriate cart page.
Clicking the 'Your Lists Home' button will load an appropriate cart page
Or, you could correctly type the cart ID in the 'Set ID' box
The Cart page has a 'Shorlist Purge' link where you can select and delete shortlist items

The site contains a great many internal links so there are a number of routes it is possible to take to arrive at an individual book page. Links to each book are made from the Author page, The Illustrator, Book Category, Book Sub-category, and sometimes a Title Page.

It is pretty handy to know a few shortcut "key chords". Control might be abbreviated to Ctrl etc. Alternative to Alt or meta.

"Control+F" will often open a dialog, in which you can enter a "text string" to search for.
"F3" will repeat the previous search.
"Control+o" will often open a dialog, for you to open a file on a local disk"

A SIMPLE WAY TO FIND A BOOK

Assuming you know the Author or Illustrator of the book you are looking for.

From the Entry Page, click the appropriate link on the left of the screen.
"Control+f" is your friend, use it instead of scrolling down to find what you are after.
Use "Control+F" then type some of the name and press "Enter"
Press "F3" repeatedly until the most promising link is highlighted
Click on the promising highlighted link
All the books attributed to that particular person will be shown in a list
To open the bookpage from that list, simply click on the mbb-number on the left hand side of the screen - It is BRIGHT GREEN
This will show you ALL the details of the book including an IMAGE of the ACTUAL BOOK for sale
If you are possibly interested, click add to shortlist.
If you think you want to buy, click ADD to cart.

For All You Tech Savy Folks Who Want To Do Some Serious Searching

Or, if you know somebody who is marginally geeky, this may be for you.
A single, plain text, comma delimited source file, mammybearsbooksdata.csv is the data source from which this site is built
The link labelled "BULK TEXT", which occurs on every book data page on the site, is a "Download" link for mammybearsbooksdata.csv
Download it to open in a spreadsheet application, Libreoffice Calc, M$ Excel, Gnumeric etc.
"Price" is in Australian Cents as is all postage ("Zone1" "WA2" etc.), sizes are in mm, weight in grams.
There are sophisticated freezing, hiding, filtering, searching, and highlighting tools available in Calc & Excel
If you find anything you are interested in, note the Author or Illustrator for locating it on the website.
mammybearsbooksdata.csv changes quite slowly and it is about 7.5 Megabytes.
IF ALL ELSE FAILS, PHONE JEAN (61) 0420 349 099

SITE NAVIGATION

"Control+f" is your friend, use it instead of scrolling down to find what you are after.
Each book has its own details and photo page, it also has its details on the lower level of the index hierarchy

There are improvements which could be made,

We would be glad to hear suggestions.
Please bear in mind that effectively, every stock item is unique.
Nothing can be reordered for the same page again.
Many unique items are $12 or $15 Australian. This severely limits the amount of labour that can be put into a page.

Description of page types

Authors: an index of individual Author pages, family name to left. There are global and initial pages
Author: (eg. Pratchett_Terry.html) links to the books we have which are attributed to that author. Contains book data.
Illustrators: an index of individual Illustrator pages, personal name to left. There are global and initial pages
Illustrator: (eg. ARTHUR_RACKHAM.html) links to the books we have which are Illustrated by that Illustrator. Contains book data.
Categories: separate broad fields of interest.
Category: (eg. AUSTRALIANA.html) This contains all the books we placed in this Category. Contains book data.
Subcategories: separate narrowed fields of interest.
Subcategory: (eg. AUSTRALIANA_-_Historical.html) This contains all the books we placed in this Subcategory. Contains book data.
Title: (only linked from individual stock item pages) (eg. Alice_in_Wonderland_-_Carol_Lewis.html) This contains all our copies of the same Title (Not Canonical Title Yet). Contains book data. (to compare)
StockPage: (eg mbb000074... .html) individual stock item page. Contains book data & photos.
Cart: The Cartlist and Shortlist with easy moving of items between them, Boxes for Destination, email address, naming your cart, and a link to the target bookmark page
Order: Submitting your email address delivers this simple, small order details page. The details are echoed to the email address.

If you are interested in a particular Author or Illustrator find a link to them on the Authors or Illustrators page.
Authors have family name first, illustrators, personal name first, So the Author "Potter_Beatrix" is "BEATRIX_POTTER" when she is an illustrator.

If your theme of interest is other than Author or Illustrator, you need the Categories and Subcategories indexes.
Category and Subcategory are fuzzy concepts, and very subjective too. A rigid hierarchy would be doomed.
TIP! Search for your theme on both pages, using " Control+f ".

Once you are on an individual Author, Illustrator, Category or Subcategory page, there will be sequence of relevant book data rows under a header description row.
If a book you are interested in is contained in that sequence it is a reasonable assumption that there may be other books of interest which are related in somehow or other.
I have created links on each book line for every criteria I can think of apart from the book Title, because, apparently, nobody except me would expect a list of books with the same title.
There are five possible links on each book row

Go to individual stock item page, the displayed link text will be our mammybears stock code mbb00????
The Author page, This contains all the books attributed to the same author.
The Illustrator page, This contains all the books Illustrated by the same Illustrator.
The Category page we have placed the stock item in. This contains all the books we placed in this Category
The Subcategory page we have placed the stock item in. This contains all the books we placed in this Subcategory

On mammybearsbooks.com website, some of the individual category and subcategory pages contain a large sequence of book data rows, including all the description text,
A "Control+f" search could produce results.

After an item is sold and the site is updated, all references to it are removed from the site. Any saved links to it will be invalid
Browsers cache visited web pages, they do not download a new version of the page unless the user tells it to "reload the current page"
If you are unfortunate enough to get a "Not Found" then your Web Browser has not just downloaded the page containing the link from the internet, it has used an old, cached, superseded version instead, you need to go back and "reload" that page, by pressing the reload page symbol.
All links are checked before every site update goes live. If there seems to be a bad internal link, somebodies data cache needs flushing.
When a sold items data can no longer found, any cart operation will cause it to be removed from your cart or shortlist.

CONTACT EMAIL: jean.wheatley@gmail.com