Tuesday, January 27, 2015 by Rose Koebel
Thanks to all those who attended yesterday’s Web Redesign Update!
For those of you who couldn’t attend, here is a brief summary of what we discussed:
- the team has been hard at work with a refreshed iteration of the homepage, including two new versions of the “megamenu”, a dynamic hours widget, and much more:
- We have gone through the feedback collected to date and incorporated the suggested changes that the team had consensus around with web best practices, terminology, information architecture and navigation. These are incorporated in the new homepage iterations above. Thank you to all for your suggestions to date!
- Yifei Zhao, the contract web developer in Digital Initiatives covering Graham Faulkner while he is on parental leave has been working with various folk throughout the Library on developing new functionality and widgets for the site
- We had a joint meeting last Thursday with the team who are working on a replacement for LibQuest via a six-month trial of LibAnswers. We have been mirroring the current branding for LibAnswers with the current website redesign:
- Annie has iterated over the IA and Content Strategy work that Sarah Forgrave did last Fall and come up with a new document that will guide our IA and content recommendations:
- Helena has assembled a team that will be working on usability testing of the new site with users during February and early March, using the testing protocol established and tested in 2010-2011
We welcome you to future Library Website Redesign Updates, to be held approximately every three weeks:
- February 18, 11:00 am – noon, DC 1568
- March 10, 2:00-3:00 pm, DP 428
- April 8, 2:30-3:30 pm, DC 1568
- April 28, 2:00-3:00 pm, DP 428
On behalf of the Library WCMS Redesign Team,
-Pascal
