website options

[Shannon E. Fox]

I love the LibGuides CMS demo, I so hoped we could go with that, but I was unsuccessful in obtaining approval for our quote. However, we are a very small library and college, so for any library with at least a fair budget I would encourage checking out the LibGuides complete CMS.

Shannon

From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Walz, Jennifer
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 7:10 PM
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All -

I recommend LibGuides from Springshare.  There are many libraries that are using it as their entire web site and it works very well.

   Please see:  http://springshare.com/libguides/

Jennifer

From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Shannon E. Fox
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 7:54 PM
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] website options

A year later we still have not solved our dilemma of what to do for the next iteration of our academic library website. If we migrate to the college website WordPress-based CMS, we lose functionality that we prefer to keep. Hosting solutions are too expensive for our tight budget. We prefer not to rent Dreamweaver from Adobe Cloud. I began looking at open source solutions besides Drupal and similar ones that require technology our IT department is unwilling to support (PHP, ASP.net, etc.) on the webserver they host for us (java is okay on it  but not in the WordPress CMS). I see that there are numerous open source and low-cost alternatives and the selection is overwhelming. Has anyone on this list employed a low cost html editor or responsive design software package to create/maintain an academic library website? I have an old version of Dreamweaver that is becoming "glitchy" and I prefer to redesign our website with modern coding and responsive design.



Shannon Fox-Teichmann
Coordinator of Electronic Services & Collections

Austin College | Abell Library Center
900 N. Grand Avenue, Suite 6L
Sherman, TX  75090-4400
Phone 903.813.2559 Cell 903.267.2424
http://abell.austincollege.edu/abell
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