Website Task Force: Welcome

The new website launched on May 21st! Great work everybody!!

I. Visual Element

II. Content

III. Quality Control

IV. Usability & Accessibility

START

• More graphics, buttons, central design element, app-like icons
• More intuitive
• Visual format
• Be more conscientous of our mobile website design
• Beautiful site in general
• Establish quality control and standards for LibGuides
• Create best practices for publishing LibGuides
• Weed the LibGuides
• Look at web accessibility for those with disabilities
• Create a layout hierarchy -- define and hold to it
• Look at our partner institutions' websites (organization and terminology)
• Develop user personas
• Make website more reflective of the macro-level role of the library
• Discuss consistency with the LibGuides
• LibGuide training
• Be more integrated with Blackboard

STOP

• Being so text-heavy
• Scrolling so much (important information needs to be above the page fold)

CONTINUE

• Evaluating all aspects of the library website, including services, format, virtual chat, et cetera