Just read a blurb by a good friend and he was wondering why library websites suck so much.
And to be honest he has a point. Library websites are never really as cool to those outside of the library world as they are to those of us in it. To be fair they have evolved a bit since the mid-90's, and they are easier to update thanks to things like wordpress. But still a library website looks like a library website. Nothing more so than wordpress based website, where you have a bunch of libraries picking from the same batch of templates.
As I sit here and type and try to think of ways to make my own library's website more relevant, I wonder just how I should be approaching this problem. Heck is it even a problem?
Do I need to host a bunch of links? Do I need a front page that has new info on it? Do I farm out things to other websites that we here at my library are just never going to get as good as other do? (For instance sites like GoodReads and libraryThing that offer way more for Bookies than I could ever have time to produce.) Do I just scrap the whole thing altogether and just put up a blinking sign that says "For info text 785-845-1507"? Or, "UR library misses U"
2 comments:
In case you want a different, unique theme: http://www.mykansaslibrary.org/2008/theme-resources/
ITemplatez.com offers professional web templates, flash templates ,swish templates, dreamweaver templates, and other web design productsavailable for immediate download.
Post a Comment