Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:00:11 -0500
From: "Amy Ostrom" <amostrom gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] library website redesign schedules
To: "Cox, Thomas" <Thomas.Coxtufts.edu>
Cc: web4libwebjunction.org
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Dear Thom:
<snip>
>But as a quick summary, for a redesign I do an
evaluation of what
people are
>saying about the current design to get an idea what
needs serious
>consideration. I also keep in mind all the
accessibility and standards
when
Amy and other readers:
I'm looking for more basic advice: how to wrest control
our web page
(singular) from our city's web designer/publisher. As it
stands now, it
is attractive and consistent with every other page for every
other
department in the city. From an information access
perspective, it
doesn't work very well. We also can't make on-the-fly
changes to it or
to files we've uploaded.
I don't mind continuing the city's theme on the web page;
I just don't
want the theme and design to take up one-third of the usable
area of the
1024x768 screen space. We've made a (small) start by
buying a domain
name and doing a redirect to the (correct) city-designed
site with the
thought that sometime in the future we'd have more local
control.
How have people successfully negotiated with their IT people
to gain
control of their web sites? I'm certain there are
techniques we can
uses and phrases we can employ which will give us what we
want without
disrupting IT's operations or seeming to deviate too far
from the
current graphic standards.
John Marquette
http://www.cocpl.org
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