Aubri Keleman, Teen Services & Web Coordinator, Whatcom County Library System
Tao Gao, Live2Create Interactive
Aubri –
Rumba with Joomla
What is a cms and why is it wicked cool? The webmaster doesn’t have to do anything
Pre-redesign
- collect stats
- review your brand
- collect photos – tell a story
- focus groups
- set explicit goals in priority order
redesign questions
- do staff and leadership know why a new website is needed
- which cms is best for us
- what can we afford money vs time vs design
- how much staff time can we put into the redesign & upkeep;
- do you need to outsource or do you have the talent you need on staff
- how will decisions be made, who gets the final say
- who is the best for the website
- how will staff be involved in the redesign process
- what project management tool should we use – blogs and wikis, they used a wiki
goal wc3 compliant
new page – http://www.wcls.org
results
- increased user feedback
- more content, more up to date content
- users spend more time on our site
- improved navigation
- w3c compliant
- flexibility
Problems
- you cant limit authors to just one page or section
- calendar
- migration
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