This session was very interesting. The speaker Jeff Winseiekekkeke--- (he had a long last name) is a Web Services librarian at the University of Pittsburg.
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| From Computers in Libraries 2009 Conference |
The primary focus of this session was to avoid wasting valuable time and money redesigning a library website.
He mentioned excellent points about the main "pitfalls" that the Web designer will run into.
Here are a few:
- Failing to account for assessment time & effort
- Spend your money where the water is – Identify heavy user services, biggest return of investment
- Not knowing enough about old website before redesign
- Losing page rank
- Proceeding without consensus on goals
- Proceeding with TOO MUCH consensus- avoid death by committee
- Design constituencies and INCLUDE them in the process
- Thinking inside the box (think about CMS, Blog, Wiki alternatives)
These are interesting points, especially since one day we may redesign the Swilley Library website.
Well, next session is starting, gotta go!!
I will post again after next session is over.
7 comments:
Hey Leci.
This sounds like it was a good session. Do you remember what he meant by this: "Not knowing enough about old website before redesign"?
He said that if the web designer was new to the position or wasn't responsible for updating and maintaining certain parts of the website, when the redesign is finished some parts (pages) can get lost or improperly linked.
Did he propose any solutions or ideas?
Yes. He said you can create a Google Site Map, this will allow you to see all the links and directories of your website. It also helps to keep your information architecture together.
Here is a link for the Google Site Map generator:
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
Thanks.
Another blog about this session: http://plablog.org/2009/03/cil-2009-website-redesign-pitfalls.html
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