A Simple Set of Bookmarks

You can create a simple wish list without having to have an account with us and use it as a list of "bookmarks" allowing you to remember toys you like the look of and easily find your way back to them.

Every product on our site now has a "heart symbol" next to its title. There is also a text link "add to wish list". Click on either the heart symbol or the text link and the selected product is automatically added to your wish list. If it is not already visible, the current wish list should now appear to the right of the Web Browser window.

You can add the same product many times to your wish list, and each time you click on the heart symbol or the text link, the wished for quantity will be incremented by one.

If you want to delete items from your wish list, or just review it in more detail, just click on the "Review" text link at the bottom of the current wish list. This will show you the detailed list of everything on your wish list. Alternatively, you can delete everything from your wishlist by just clicking on the "Empty" text link at the bottom of the current wish list.

When you review a Wish List, you are presented with a personalised product list over one or more pages. This behaves just like a normal product list, allowing you to click through to product details or to add a product to your shopping basket:

• To remove a product from your wish list, all you need to do is to click on the red cross symbol in the title line of the product. You will be prompted to confirm its removal from the wish list, after which it will be removed.
• To reduce the quantity on the wish list, change the value in the "Qty" edit box for the product to the number of items that you want to reduce it by. Now click on the red cross symbol in the title line of the product. The quantity on the wish list will be reduced by that quantity.

When you add an item on your Wish List to the Shopping Basket, it will automatically be removed from the Wish List. The removal becomes permanent once you have completed the purchase.

Saving a Wish List

Simple Wish Lists will be all most users want. However, their disadvantage is that the Wish List is tied to a computer rather than an individual user. When you add something to a Wish List for the first time, we send a small token (a cookie) to your computer which it returns each time you access our website. That way we can locate your Wish List for you. However, if you share your computer with others, use an Internet Cafe, or need to access your Wish List from different computers, this is not a satisfactory approach.

In order to make a list private or visible from more than one computer, you need to save it under your account.

To save a Wish List, click on the "Save" text link at the bottom of the current wish list. This will prompt you to login/create an account, if you are not already logged in. Once logged in, you will be asked for a name for the Wish List (e.g. My Birthday List) and an optional free text description.

You may then save your Wish List.

Once saved, a saved Wish List can only be accessed once you are logged into your account.

To access a saved Wish List, all you need to do is to click on the "My Account" link on the menu bar at the top of any page on our website. This will ask you to login, if you are not already logged in, and then you will be presented with your account information. The first set of information shown is your list of saved Wish Lists. Click on the name of the Wish List you want to review, in order to see it.

As before, you will then be presented with a personalised product list over one or more pages. However, you will also have a list of options at the top of the page. These allow you to:

• Edit the free text description for the saved Wish List
• Change the Title of the Wish List
• Delete the Wish List
• Make the Wish List the Current Wish List. It is then displayed as the current Wish List in the right hand window pane, replacing any current Wish List.
• Publish the Wish List (see below).

Published Wish Lists

Once a Wish List has been published (see above), it is accessible (read only) by third parties. Such a list is usually published to your friends and relatives so they can co-ordinate present buying. A Wish List is published for a fixed time, determined when you publish it.

The list is accessed using a randomly generated nine digit identifier. This makes it highly unlikely that anyone could guess the identifier for your published Wish List, thus keeping it private and known only to those you give the identifier to. When you publish a Wish List, you are presented with a web page that tells you the Wish List's unique identifier and instructions on how to use it. An Email is also sent to you which you can forward to those you wish to see the list.

The quickest way to see a published Wish List, if you know the unique id, is to type:

http://www.childhoodsdream.co.uk/wishlist/nnnnnnnnn

into your web browser, where nnnnnnnnn is your Wish List identifier.

Published Wish Lists behave differently to Saved Wish Lists. They can, of course, be viewed by anyone who knows the Unique Identifier. The other big difference is that when someone buys from a published Wish List, instead of removing that item from the Wish List, the system keeps track of which items have been ordered and tells anyone viewing the list, which items have been purchased and which have not.