[Web4lib] need some free design advice

Thu Oct 1 09:49:43 EDT 2009

Yeah, they didn't do that, either. Long story short--even though the
site was ostensibly designed for use with Contribute, they gave us 2
templates--one for the front page and one for any subpage. Except they
didn't really use the templates. I'm not sure how the staff made new
pages, but I suspect they just copied any existing page and then
edited the copy. The sidebar menus are a nightmare to maintain.

I'm starting to think that a skunkworks project is in order. Use some
of the existing design--color scheme and so forth--but implement it in
something much friendlier, like WordPress. (Drupal is overkill for our
size library, I think.)

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Chester D. Mealer <chester at rpl.org> wrote:
> If you don't know your users' screen dimensions, Google Analytics will be more than happy to show you that and more.
>
> Chester Mealer
> Webmaster
> Rapides Parish Library
> chester at rpl.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Dowling
> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 5:12 PM
> To: web4lib
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] need some free design advice
>
> On 09/30/2009 04:39 PM, Sharon Foster wrote:
>> Dear Collective Brain,
>>
>> Here's my library's website:
>>
>> http://www.ryepubliclibrary.org/
>
>> ...What would you do if you were me?
>>
>
> I'd start with this:
>
> =============
> <body>
>  <div id="site-wrap">
>    <table width="760" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
> =============
>
>
> Reconsider the assumptions in that design (start by borrowing someone's
> 1920x1200 widescreen laptop.  Do you know your users' screen dimensions?).
> Then you might handle the overlapping images with CSS positioning and the
> z-index property.
>
>
> --
> Thomas Dowling
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
>
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