Ah, but if you are
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Chris Barr <christopher.barrvillanova.edu>
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Re: [Web4lib] Sub sites: - how do you differentiate?
Hi Lisa,
This is something that I have always been baffled by as a
user with
library sites and as a web technologist who has had to deal
with these
politics.
For me as a user, it doesn't make sense for each of the
libraries to
have their own site, with slightly different variations.
However, it
does make sense for each library to have their own page
within the
"University Libraries" website that highlights the
unique services that
I can only find in that library. (Especially, if the
electronic
resources and catalog are shared across all of the
libraries.)
In my mind it would be like going to Walmart's website and
having a
different site off the homepage for each store. Instead, on
Walmart's
site I can find my local store, where I can find the unique
info about
that store: "At this location you can find a pharmacy,
here's this
store's contact information, etc..." Also, on that page
I can say "Make
this my store." Now when I do a search and find an
item, I know if they
have it at "My Store," which could just as easily
be "My Library."
(I am not a Walmart supporter in any way, but I thought it
made a useful
analogy.)
And beyond a separate color, since we are talking about
separate
physical spaces, maybe showing that space would be more
useful...
Best,
Chris Barr
Villanova University
Pons, Lisa (ponslm) wrote:
> Our web team is in the throes of a deep philosophical
debate right now
about design for our sites. I have my opinion, but I wonder
if I am
right... so:
>
> We have one umbrella organization: University
Libraries, which is made
up of 10 college and departmental libraries.
>
> We have a main site:
> http://www.libraries.uc.
edu/
>
> and each of our c&d sites have their own sites, of
which these are a
few:
> http://www.libr
aries.uc.edu/classics/
> http://www.libraries
.uc.edu/arb/
> http://www.libraries
.uc.edu/rwc/
>
>
> Originally, our concept was our main site would have
red as the
"highlight color", and then each C&D, or sub
site could choose their own
highlight color. The idea being that navigation and
terminology would be
similar, yet the color would help to distinguish one site
from the other.
>
> Now however, some sites want to use the red... some
don't... some want
the same highlight color as another.
>
> Questions:
> -As a user, would you feel the color is important to
help you know where
you are?
> -Would it matter to you if 4 of the sites were
identical, and the rest
each had a different color?
> -Would it be better if each site was completely
different, navigation,
structure, etc...?
>
> Are there any articles, websites etc... that would help
us in making
this decision?
>
> Have any of you run into this issue? How did you
resolve it?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Lisa Pons-Haitz
> University of Cincinnati Libraries
>
>
>
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