Library web site guidelines

[John Kupersmith]

re Eric Rumsey's question:
>Does anyone know of info on BASIC design principles of web sites,
>especially library web sites?

Here are some sources that I've found useful:

Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton, 
The Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide
< http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/index.html >
while not specific to libraries, is excellent.  It includes sections 
on web interface design, site design, page design, graphics, etc.

Eric H. Schnell,
Writing for the Web: A Primer for Librarians
< http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/eric/papers/primer/webdocs.html >
includes some basic how-to's and a page on "Design Considerations."

Mark Stover and Steven D. Zink,
"World Wide Web Home Page Design: Patterns and Anomalies 
  of Higher Education Library Home Pages,"
Reference Services Review 24 (Fall 1996), 7-18,
discusses hypermedia design issues and evaluates actual library 
home pages (entrance pages to sites) according to a set of design 
criteria.  

Also, for what it's worth, our site < http://www.washoe.lib.nv.us >
uses a consistent set of headers, footers, and graphics as navigation 
aids.

--jk
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