Library Instruction Services Redesign Danielle Skaggs Fall 2006

Presentation Overview Site and Project Introduction Initial Site Design Redesign Tasks Project Statistics Next Time...

Library Instruction Services (LIS): For Librarians Subsite Provide content and information about services Key content:  Tips and Techniques for Library Instruction  Instruction “Clearinghouse” Audience primarily internal – “librarians involved with instruction at UT” per User Model

Information Architecture Tools Visio Dreamweaver 8 Fireworks Web Developer Firefox extension UT Color Scheme

Redesign Tasks Create global/local navigation to help users form mental model (Modjeska & Marsh, 1997; Nielsen, 2003) Change labels for clarity Add html “preview” files for browsing ease (Krug, 2000) Create a sitemap, no search box (Rosenfeld, 2002)

Project Facts 49 total pages (32 in Tips section) CSS-styled table layout (Project Seven tutorial)Project Seven tutorial Validated - XHTML 1.0 Transitional & CSS (Dreamweaver & Firefox) Accessibility errors (Bobby)  Same link text with different URLs  Separate adjacent links with more than whitespace

Next Time Around I’d... Rework the Tips local navigation Focus less on my current skills during design phase Integrate more aspects of IA into focus (limit scrolling, text readability) (Nielsen, 1997)

References Krug, S. (2000). How we really use the Web. In Don’t make me think (chapter 2). Indianapolis, Ind: Que Publishing. Modjeska, D., & Marsh, A. (1997). Structure and Memorability of Web Sites. Toronto: Computer Science Research Institute of the University of Toronto.Structure and Memorability of Web Sites Nielsen, J. (2003, November 10). The Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines. In Alertbox: Current issues in web usability. Nielsen, J. (1997, October 1). How users read on the web. In Alertbox: Current issues in web usability. Rosenfeld, L., & Morville, P. (2002). Information architecture for the world wide web (2nd ed.). Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly & Associates.

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