[WEB4LIB] Library "Splash" pages

[Julia Schult]

Trash the splash.  Splash pages are *so* annoying.  (I know, it may not be in your control.)

Seriously, I like what our campus has done with standardization (even if they didn't do it in the most tactful way at first).  We have a standard font, standard colors, and a standard College header which people use as the basis of their pages.  There are standard images people can use.  I chose to add an image of the college flower to the header on all the library pages, so hopefully people subliminally notice when they are on library pages as opposed to the rest of our site.

I'm not saying our site is a model overall, but I do think we've done some good things for consistency of our look and feel.

College home page: http://www.elmira.edu/
Library home page: http://www.elmira.edu/library/
Sample library subject link page: http://www.elmira.edu/library/web/education.html
Computing Services page (for comparison): http://www.elmira.edu/acs/index.htm

"Tami-Jo M. Eckley" 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.
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> Tami-Jo Eckley
> Electronic Services & Media Librarian
> Manhattanville College Library
> Purchase, New York 10577
> http://www.mville.edu/library
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---Julia E. Schult
Access/Electronic Services Librarian
Elmira College
Jschult at elmira.edu