Ms. Moore discusses planning, budgeting, organizing, designing, and evaluating a first Website for all types of libraries. She offers suggestions for designing and creating an effective Website to support the purposes and audience the library identifies for its Web presence. Steps are outlined for reorganizing a library Website that has been in existence for some time to correct problems with organization, design, graphics, purpose or changes in technology. How to prepare a long-term maintenance plan to keep the Web site functioning efficiently is also described. Yes, librarians are all madly creating, maintaining, and updating Web pages.
Quality ranges from the awful to the awesome.
Feedback from users is critical to any evaluation, but it is only one part of a complex process. One of the best ways to ensure your Web page is adequate is to become competent in Web page evaluation. This can be best achieved through an interactive process with fellow professionals where actual pages are presented and evaluated using a common set of criteria. This melding of theory and practice will help sharpen critical evaluation skills and assist in developing a common language of evaluation that can be utilized at the local level and in communicating with other professionals. This presentation uses the basic elements of visual literacy and Web page design to examine a variety of Web pages.