History of library home page design

[Bill Trefzger]

Eric,
We recently published an article about our web site which includes nice
contrasting images of the original home page and the current one, as well
as some discussion of design considerations:
http://www.computer.org/internet/ic1997/w5035abs.htm

Note that we are now redesigning again--a design gets stale pretty fast!

Bill


At 07:42 AM 11/13/97 -0800, Eric Rumsey wrote:
>Does anyone know of an archive of old library web site pages? - I'm wanting
>to trace the evolution of library home page design over the last 2-3 years
>.. starting from the time when the predominant motif for the library home
>page was to have the entire first screen of the home page taken up by a
>PHOTO of the library!
>
>  --Eric
>
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