That list will be scanned and e-mailed to our committee's listserv. Current web page won an award last year and Beth would like for the next one to win an award as well in the next year or so. She advocates a home page that keeps track of where the user is in the experience. She defined functionality as a way to get the user quickly into a simple home page all the way to evolving into what the user wants it to be. She said that an individual's learning style impacts the way we want to navigate the web.
Business people tend to be lateral thinkers.
She said Bill Pallett did some preliminary research on this topic, and believes we will get more into that in future years. For now, we know that 60-70 percent of users have a mixed learning style. Still, only 10 percent are text oriented. The Game plan for Taskforce is to set a goal of having 10 times more information available off the home page than we now have, yet maintain a clean design. Pat Bosco said he really liked the idea of a page that is both clean and user friendly.