[WEB4LIB] Re: Web page color & accessibility

[Dan Lester]

Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 1:28:51 PM, you wrote:

MM> The first design rule is - Remember your audience.  For most academic
MM> libraries you should be designing your webpages for the 18-22 year old
MM> crowd.  You are not designing for fellow librarians or "elderly colleagues"
MM> who expect the old black-on-white standard.  The majority of your users are
MM> comfortable with "fancy stuff" even if you [we] hate it.

Actually, our audience is NOT just the traditional 18-22 year olds.
That might be true of a small residential college in a small town, but
as an urban university with freshmen through PhD candidates, and an
average age of 28 years old, the 'kids' are obviously in the minority.
Also, as the largest library within more than 300 miles, we provide a
considerable amount of service to the community.  I'm sure that other
than being the largest library in the middle of nowhere, the same
holds true at a large number of other universities.

cheers

dan


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