Web Team Meeting October 12, 2017

The initial ‘mockup’ was sketched on the board (see image). A sketch for the header was drawn below that mockup. Also written on the board was a list of links that the survey identified as important to be on the Homepage. At this point let me stress that these are not necessarily the only links that will be included, just the ones identified by the survey.

That list was:

-Cooper Hours

-Catalog Search

-My Account

-Article/Journal Search

-Link to Services

-Link to Database List

-Ask Us/Ask a Librarian

-Link to Help Section (FAQ)

-Connecting from Off Campus

-Hours

-Parking Info

-Electronic Equipment List

-Link to Research Guides

-Link to Course Reserves

Proposed changes to the homepage layout:

  1. Remove boxes completely.
  2. Create 3 columns: Find Something, News/Events, Get Help.
  3. Move Ask A Librarian to the Get Help list.
  4. Possibly integrate social media/LibCal to middle column

The letters in the menu area under the header stand for the links already there: Research, Services, Locations, News, & About Us.

Proposed changes to the header:

  1. Move My Account to purple bar.
  2. Separate the logo and search box.
  3. Create a narrower image area.
  4. In the purple bar, replace the calendar icon with the word ‘hours’.

After talking about the layout of the columns and the changes to the header, the group went on to discuss the list of links identified by the survey. We discussed alternate names for several of them: Electronic Equipment List, Course Reserves, & Connecting from off campus as well as the title ‘Find Something’. There was no consensus.

There was a suggestion that we group several links to a single ‘off campus’ link. Those links would only be Connecting & Parking Info (at the moment).