Web Oversight Group Meeting Notes

11 Nov 2020

David Lacy Sara Curnow Wilson (Unlicensed) Jackie Sipes Joseph Idell

Admin landing page

General feedback

• Having the style guide is helpful

• Listing the model is also helpful

• The group has approved this work. Next is to get review/approval from the Web Content Strategy Group

Discuss the addition of drop-down menus for primary navigation.

Mobile - we will likely not implement drop-downs on the mobile since it would not add much to the functionality that is already there.

ADA - we will take this into account when adding the drop-downs.

User research done by Rick, Olivia and Jackie indicated that people did not know where specific content on the website could be found.

• Both the web oversight and the web content strategy groups approved the implementation of this new feature.

Ticket https://tulibdev.atlassian.net/browse/MAN-1012 added to the fall website work for this.

• Add Event Tracking to the drop-down menus if possible
• Schedule a separate meeting to specifically review Google Analytics on the website. - Meeting is scheduled for Friday 12/11 at 10:30am.

WSYWIG editor

Originally, we thought that the new editor was incompatible with the versioning/drafting features. However, it looks like Steven Ng has figured out a work-around.

PDF Undergraduate/Graduate Guides

Current setup

• Right now, we just have an undergraduate guide, a graduate guide and a subject specialists guide.

• Current guides can be found here: /wiki/spaces/OCSST/pages/921862315

Requirements

• It is useful to have a link to the PDF or content since MailChimp does not allow for attachments.

Example: Princeton Library

Prototyping

• We could potentially auto generate these pages by adding a “brief description” field to the service model and then pulling together a page of content based on the “intended-audience” field in the service.

Next steps

• We decided to move forward with designing and printing the guides as usual for the spring 2021 semester. We will look at implementing these changes for the fall semester.

• Steven and LRS will need to approve significant changes to the guides.

• Jackie Sipes will convene a group to review the options for the guides - theoretically, this group will include reps from LRS and also someone who works on the OSAD.

A discussion about how search is presented on the homepage:

2020-10-08 Website Design Discussion Meeting notes

Background

We want to ensure that we are continuously improving on the website and that the single search box on an empty page is really the best approach. This is more of a longer term goal of making sure that our search is still meeting users' needs.

Immediate changes

In the immediate, we can update the text that appears in the search box. Right now, it says “Search everything”. This is misleading and inaccurate in a lot of ways.

• Update the text in the search box to say “Books, articles, library website, and more…”

Next Steps

Ticket https://tulibdev.atlassian.net/browse/MAN-1015 has been created for this work.

We need to add the discussion of the search box to a larger conversation in the future.