website options

[Bradbeer, Gayle]

Have you looked at LibGuides?  Many small libraries use the guides to create a site that is deeper than what their main IT will support.  Check out the list at http://www.springshare.com/libguides/academic/website.html.  They all do things a little differently.

Gayle

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Gayle Bradbeer
Collection Development (STEMM) and User Support Librarian
Auraria Library serving UCDenver, MSUDenver & CCDenver 
gayle.bradbeer at auraria.edu



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From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Shannon E. Fox
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:43 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options

My boss would prefer a dynamic, database driven website since we create study/subject guides in house and there could be more time consumed in editing static pages. That is why I liked Dreamweaver, using one template that I could update universally, and otherwise using the software's search/find/replace when I needed to edit a link site-wide. 

I would just prefer a site with responsive design, at least that which looks good no matter what device people are using to access it. 

Since I am the only one who maintains the library website, adding and editing content, I would prefer something manageable since I have many other duties as well as a faculty librarian. 

I admit that I have some learning ahead of me and I am open to learning what I need to create the best option, working within our budget constraints. I do have experience with Wordpress. I took a Drupal course several years ago and would need to relearn that.

Shannon

-----Original Message-----
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm)
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:49 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options

Hi all
I did understand the difference, I was merely pointing out to Shannon that Dreamweaver is, in itself an html editor, and of course can work with Bootstrap and other frameworks, especially if you are the only person editing the site.

My main point though was that depending on who edits your site content, and how many there are, will, and should, have a huge impact on your choice of how to manage your site .

If it's just one person, some solutions would be overkill.  On the other hand if you've got 10 people, it's probably time to think about some kind of management system. Then once you have that answered- what are the skill level of each contributor? Would Github be beyond them? Are they willing to learn? How about Wordpress? Would they learn that?

Lisa

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Christian Pietsch
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:08 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] website options

Hi Lisa,
hello list,

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 01:39:04PM +0000, Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) wrote:
> I think some of your choice may depend on who is using your site to update content. For example, we have 50 editors on our site.  I alone manage 42 sites by myself.
> 
> Are you the only one on your site doing updates? if so, a static site might work for you. If not, you will be better of with a CMS.

I am sorry if I did not make myself clear, but you seem to confuse manually generated static sites (which you would create in a text editor or something like Dreamweaver) with static sites that come out of a static site generator such as Jekyll.

GitHub Pages are based on Jekyll, and they work perfectly fine with any number of contributors. Those you do not feel comfortable using Github or Git directly can use http://prose.io/ for editing site content online.

Cheers,
Christian


> On September 29, 2015, at 3:30 AM, Christian Pietsch <chr.pietsch+web4lib at GOOGLEMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Hi Shannon,
> 
> dynamically generated websites have turned out to be terribly brittle, 
> slow, and insecure. Current HTML5 is so powerful that for most use 
> cases, you don't really need them. Not even for blogs.
> 
> I would always first try to use a static website generator such as 
> Jekyll <https://jekyllrb.com/>, which is free and open source.
> It allows you to author blog posts in Markdown which is essentially 
> plain text with very unobtrusive markup like people use in e-mails.
> 
> Cheers,
> Christian

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  Christian Pietsch * http://purl.org/net/pietsch
  LibTec (Library Technology and Knowledge Management) department
  of Bielefeld University Library, Bielefeld, Germany

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