[Web4lib] Need efficient way to post "library closing" message

[Havens,Andy]

If you really want to "shotgun" the message and make sure everyone sees
it, you could change your banner graphic and add a small violator with
the closed dates. This is assuming; A) that the same graphic is pulled
in as the header on all your pages, and B) that you don't mind total
overkill for this one message. Then, after you come back, just switch
back to the original graphic.


- A 

Andy Havens 
email: havensa at oclc.org 
phone: 614.764.4326 


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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Kathy Gaynor
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 12:05 PM
To: web4lib
Subject: [Web4lib] Need efficient way to post "library closing" message




In the past, we have added a message to the top of selected pages on our
web site to inform our users of the library's closure over the winter
holidays.
For example, we would add a message to our home page, main database
page, our request forms, "Ask a Librarian" email reference form, etc.
There are probably about 18 pages that were involved.  We thought that
we should add this message to more than just our home page as users may
take various routes to get to a specific page.

I'm wondering if there are other more efficient ways to handle this
other than manually adding the message to each page and deleting it
after we come back to school in January.  We recently revised our web
site to be XHTML compliant and to use style sheets.

Thanks for any suggestions you might have.  Our web site is at
<http://library.webster.edu>. 

Kathy M. Gaynor
Reference Librarian
Emerson Library/Webster University
470 E. Lockwood Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63119
(314) 961-2660 x7811
kgaynor at webster.edu 



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