[CASL-L] Web Design?

[Carol Ansel]

Hi Matt - 
My web page is a subpage of the school's site, which is hosted by a
professional company and maintained by our Communications person. (I'm
over at Williams - we're 6-12 independent school as you probably know).
That said, within the school's parameter I have control of my own page(s).

At the risk of stating the obvious, I think this is a case of good ol'
"KISS" - keep it simple...  I try to use my page as the reearch jumping
off page for my kids - try to get them to bookmark it on their own devices
(haha!), and it's the default opening page on all the school computer
browsers. ("Doing research? Got an assignment? Start at the library page
(www.williamsschool.org/library)..." - if I had a nickel for every time I
said that, I could retire  ;-)

If you want to take a look feel free - but with the caveat that the whole
school's site has just been updated and is still in flux - I had icons for
all my databases and links (I like the visual for the kids, though our
Communications person might prefer it the way it currently is, text only)
- but she hasn't had time to get all the visual stuff back up yet.

Clearly the color scheme, design etc. is mostly out of my hands - I just
provide the content. But if I were in charge of design, I would still say
KISS - avoid cute-sy, flashing, scrolling text etc.

Hope this helps - have fun!
Carol

Carol Ansel
Librarian / Information Wilderness Guide
The Williams School
New London, CT

"Today, with our powers of concentration atrophied by the staccato
communication of the Internet and attention easily diverted to addictive
entertainment on our phones and tables, book-length reading is harder
still" -- Colin Robinson



Matthew Cadorette <MCadorette at waterfordschools.org> writes:
>I am working on my library webpage.
>
>What do you think the strengths and weaknesses of your library webpages
>are?
>
>What should I avoid? What should I include?
>
>Any insight would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Matt
>
>Matt Cadorette
>Librarian
>Waterford High School
>20 Rope Ferry Road
>Waterford, CT
>(860) 437-6956 
>x7127
>OR
>x7130
>http://waterfordschools.org/domain/44
>
>You can have my book when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.
>           Wyoming Library Bumper Sticker




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