[Web4lib] need some free design advice

[Kozlowski,Brendon]

Just for the sake of showing off Atahualpa theme's flexibility, here's a live blog running off the theme:
http://ex-libris.ca/ <http://ex-libris.ca/> 
 
Hopefully Mike won't mind me linking to his site.
 
 
 
Brendon Kozlowski
Web Administrator
Saratoga Springs Public Library
49 Henry Street
Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866
[518] 584-7860 x217

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From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Robert L. Balliot
Sent: Thu 10/1/2009 10:08 AM
To: 'Sharon Foster'; 'Chester D. Mealer'
Cc: 'web4lib'
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] need some free design advice




Wordpress hosted using the Atahualpa theme:

http://negreenhouse.com/green

Atahualpa provides exceptional design flexibility
and can be quite attractive. Wordpress plugins
give you the functional leverage to interact very
effectively with the public.  Best of both worlds.

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Robert L. Balliot
Skype: RBalliot
Bristol, Rhode Island
http://oceanstatelibrarian.com/contact.htm
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-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Sharon Foster
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 9:50 AM
To: Chester D. Mealer
Cc: web4lib
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] need some free design advice

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
>




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