Hi all
We (the website review group) have been working towards rebranding the library website (to match UC branding present on many UC webpages now).
At this stage we have set up a demo site and are looking for your opinions, particularly on the navigation menu and quicklinks content (left hand column).
Here is a link to the demo website so you can have a look. The “home” page is currently just an image (a mock-up only) so links in the centre of the page will not work. The left side navigation bar and quicklinks do work and all lower level pages should work (they have just been rebranded and no tweaks/touch-ups done at this stage).
The idea with the home page is that at least one of the central 3 picture/boxes will be a slide show that we can use to showcase features of the library, special news, events e.t.c.(see the UC accommodation site as an example)
The other non-hours picture/box can be used in a similar way or it can be a static box linking to a particular webpage…
The News section will be similar to our current news feed from the Library News blog.
The picture circles at the bottom of the page are designed to be “quick access” type buttons to frequently accessed pages.
We are looking to get agreement on the navigation/quicklinks/picture circles ASAP, so please have a look and send any feedback/comments through to e-services.
We expect to go live with the new branding and navigation the week 9 December.
Note – the demo site will only work on campus.
Cheers
Romy (on behalf of e-services and the website review group).
The Twitter and Facebook icons will not be easily seen because they are low on the home page and are in black and white. Can they be placed in a more prominent position, higher up the page, and/or displayed in colour?
It would be good to have a live Twitter feed, but I guess this isn’t possible.
Caroline Anderson
Probably agree Caroline, I had not even noticed them at the bottom as I stopped scrolling down at the other circles.
What is the logic behind the order in which the links appear on the left-hand side of the page? For example, why are Quick links at the end? If these are the links people use the most, shouldn’t they be at the top of the page? Why is the ‘About’ section at the end of the first group of topics instead of at the beginning?
Have we checked that the ‘help’ topic is well-used? I seem to recall that many people only go to ‘help’ sections as a last resort. Would it be more helpful, (no pun intended), to call this section something else? (I can’t think of another name of it, but perhaps others can, or other websites could be consulted in order to gain ideas).