Develop the EMSI Christian Bookstore page

[mattrebor]

What's on these pages?

[dnase2]

The Bookstore is actually the Life Publishing House under EMSI. Broadcast page will be under EMSI section. The Bookstore and Gospel Broadcast boxes on the homepage were meant to be placeholders for quick banners to highlight different sections of the site. Will replace Broadcast banner with one that highlights 45th Anniversary for the time being. I will provide new banner for this.

[dnase2]

English text

Literary Publication

a. Periodical

EMSI officially launched the Chinese Spring of Life monthly newsletter and English bimonthly Spring of Life in April, 1990. The contents are sermon messages, biblical research, topical reports, testimonies, and church reports.

b. Books

We have been publishing books since 1993. They are categorized into: Bible Studies, Holiday Sermons, Character Bible Studies, Devotionals, Translations and others. Those that were already published are: The Mother of Faith- Ruth, Father of Faith- Abraham, Rebellious Prophet- Jonah, The Theological Perspective, Scientific Perspective and Controversial Perspective of Genesis 1-11, Deeper Life Sermons (Volume 1-6), Holiday Sermon, Faith versus Science Series (Volume 1-2), Character Sermons, Sermons on Service.

We have translated the following books: Christian Evidences, Creation and Eschatology, The 666 International Code,Prophecy Pocket Series (Volume 1-12), The End of Christian Psychology,Psychology Gone Astray, Seven Dead Men Who Rule the World From the Grave,Defender’s Bible, The Theological Heresies of Wescott and Hort, and Which Bible is God’s Word?.

[dnase2]

I will email the Chinese text.

[dnase2]

would we have time to build an online store for our first phase? EMSI has a series of books and CDs that are available for purchase. Currently the process for orders is: download pdf file of list of books, download separate order form, fill out order form and email order to office. It is a very complicated process.

[dnase2]

Bookstore and Life Publishing House sections are different. I envision the "bookstore" to be the shopping cart for the site where we offer everything that a user can purchase through EMSI (broadcasting CD's, various publications, books, etc.)

Here are the intro paragraphs for Bookstore Page (includes a link to the "Life Publishing House" page):

Christian Evangelical Bookstore Our Christian Evangelical Bookstore was set up in 1981. The bookstore has Chinese and English Christian books, stationary, CD’s, and gift items. It also has a large supply of CD’s, and books published by EMSI Life Publishing House.

福音書局 一九八一年，國際神學福音佈道會設立自己的福音書局。書局內提供中、英文屬靈叢書、文具、C D 和禮品等 。國際神學福音佈道會出版社出版地各類書籍、講道錄音及釋經CD 也在福音書局銷售。

[mattrebor]

What do you have in mind for the online store? Is it just a web form that emails to someone in emsi or are you looking for it have a shopping cart and integrate with a payment processor.

If it is the former then I think we can do this (maybe a couple of later than the go live). If it is the latter then I don't think that will be possible.

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:46 PM, dnase2 notifications@github.com wrote:

would we have time to build an online store for our first phase? EMSI has a series of books and CDs that are available for purchase. Currently the process for orders is: download pdf file of list of books, download separate order form, fill out order form and email order to office. It is a very complicated process.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/mattrebor/emsiweb/issues/26#issuecomment-21160959 .

[dnase2]

web form would be fine for now. integration with payment processor like paypal for near future. please let me know if you need help inputting fields for the web form (many of the books/cd's are in chinese titles).

It the bookstore is not ready by launch date, I will choose some other section to feature on our homepage. Perhaps Locate a church and 45th Anniversary announcement.

[mattrebor]

Can you up what it will look like? Is there an English and Chinese version? On Jul 19, 2013 2:09 PM, "dnase2" notifications@github.com wrote:

web form would be fine for now. integration with payment processor like paypal for near future. please let me know if you need help inputting fields for the web form (many of the books/cd's are in chinese titles).

It the bookstore is not ready by launch date, I will choose some other section to feature on our homepage. Perhaps Locate a church and 45th Anniversary announcement.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/mattrebor/emsiweb/issues/26#issuecomment-21266823 .

[dnase2]

order page mock-ups:

[dnase2]

Intro blurb for

Christian Evangelical Bookstore Our Christian Evangelical Bookstore was set up in 1981. The bookstore has Chinese and English Christian books, stationary, CD’s, and gift items. It also has a large supply of CD’s, and books published by EMSI Life Publishing House.

福音書局 一九八一年，國際神學福音佈道會設立自己的福音書局。書局內提供中、英文屬靈叢書、文具、C D 和禮品等 。國際神學福音佈道會出版社出版地各類書籍、講道錄音及釋經CD 也在福音書局銷售。

[mattrebor]

We should probably implement a captcha on the form so that bots don't start spamming the emsi inbox. @danlee6 let me know if you want me to research this.

[dnase2]

Include following text at bottom of order form: Mail your order form, and your check to: EMSI, 36 Alpine Rd., Towaco, N.J. 07082.

[dnase2]

Add title to Bookstore Order Form: EMSI Christian Bookstore/基督教福音書房

Add intro paragraph before the booklist:

Welcome to the EMSI Christian Bookstore. We offer a series of books published by our Life Publishing House and audio CD's produced through our Gospel Broadcasting Ministry. These selections are currently available only in Chinese. Please browse through our online catalog to place your order. If you have any questions, please contact us at emsi@emsionline.org.

基督教福音書房

歡迎您在國際神學福音佈道會的網上書店瀏覽！我們提供生命出版社出版的各類中文書籍、及福音廣播中心福音廣播中心 製作的有聲光碟等。請參閱我們網上的目錄，以便訂購書籍。有疑問者，請寫信至emsi@emsionline.org，和我們聯絡!