Digital Artifact – post 2a
I thought I would share a little of the research I have done today about what makes a good website. I want to make sure that I don’t just create a website that is cluttered and doesn’t keep my audience (the staff primarily) interested. It wad interesting to consider myself and the library learning commons add a business with a product to sell, but frankly that’s all about what we need to do as advocates for these spaces. Might as well put good market research to use.
Caveat – I really know little about web design, so these may not be the most credible sites. However, what they said made sense, so I’m going to give dine of their ideas a try.
How much of all of this will I use? Probably not a much as I would like, and I can see why big companies hire media designers to build websites. However, I’ve got a template I like and a few solid ideas of how to tweak it.
15 Exceptional Education Websites
This is a list of university and college websites. I thought I’d look at these because they have sombre of the same functions that we may want in a SLLC website. I thought that the author’s commentary was interesting, and made sense. Nice to see some Canadian institutions made the list. One downside is that this is an older article. Websites have definitely changed side then. However, I think that the functionality and examples she’s gives were helpful.
27 Research-backed Web Design Tips: How to Design a Website That Works
This site had great tips and explanations for whay to include in website design. Some of it I was already naturally gravitating towards (like not putting important stuff below the fold – part of number 2). They had great advice about website organization, images, wording and navigation and links. So many things to consider!
Works Cited
Crestodina, Andy. “27 Research-backed Web Design Tips: How to Design a Website That Works.” Orbit Media, www.orbitmedia.com/blog/web-design-tips/
Gaines, Kendra. “15 Exceptional Education Websites.” Web Designer Depot, 15 July, 2013. www.webdesignerdepot.com/2013/07/15-exceptional-education-sites/
