[WEB4LIB] Re: Library "Splash" pages

[Nancy Sosna Bohm]

The only effective splash page I've seen is one in which the images 
targeted a fan market. No offense, but I don't see how a library's splash 
page would fit this model.

At 08:27 AM 9/15/00 -0700, Nancy Wildin wrote:
>Tami,
>I think you'll get pretty wide spread agreement with "splash pages must 
>die."  They irritate way more than help.    Kevin's reference to placing 
>the identity and logo on EVERY page is so important,  and I can't believe 
>how many sites still ignore that.  Doesn't have to be huge, just very visible.
>
>Nancy Wildin
>Seattle Public Library
>
> >>> "Kevin W. Bishop" <bishopk at rpi.edu> 09/15/00 08:08AM >>>
>
>Hi Tami,
>
>Although ultimately it may not be your decision, I just wanted to point out
>that users tend to despise splash pages and prefer to get straight to the
>information they've come for in the first place.  (And perhaps this is
>particularly true with library sites?)
>
>Jakob Nielsen's latest publication, _Designing Web Usability_, addresses
>this issue directly in chapter 4:
>
>4. Site Design
>
>        The Home Page
>        How Wide Should the Page Be?
>             Home Page Width
>->   Splash Screens Must Die
>        The Home Page Versus Interior Pages
>             Deep Linking
>             Affiliates Programs
>
>See: http://www.useit.com/jakob/webusability/
>
>Instead, JN suggests:  "1.Place your name and logo on every page and make
>the logo a link to the home page (except on the home page itself, where the
>logo should not be a link: never have a link that points right back to the
>current page)."
>
>
>
>-kb
>
>
>At 07:42 AM 9/15/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >Our college is for the first time (believe it or not) implementing a theme
> >throughout the college site.  Of course, our library has its own look and
> >feel, with its own "home page".  Now, however, development would like to
> >implement the college theme with a "splash" page for the library.  I came
> >across one site one time but I don't remember whose it was, that had a
> >college or university splash page and a link that said "connect to the
> >library's home page here".  I am looking at similar sites.  Please respond
> >to me with urls of sites that have similar structures to this or other
> >with any other ways of dealing with a college design theme, leading into a
> >separate library theme.  Thanks.
> >
> >--
> >Tami-Jo Eckley
> >Electronic Services & Media Librarian
> >Manhattanville College Library
> >Purchase, New York 10577
> >http://www.mville.edu/library
> >______________________________________
> >
> >--
>
>_________________________________________
>Kevin W. Bishop, Campus-Wide Info. Sys. Coord.
>Libraries and Information Services
>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
><bishopk at rpi.edu> | <http://www.rpi.edu/rpinfo/>