The NEQM logo and header
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Today Maureen, Polly, and I sat down and discussed strategy for moving the website content to the new site. I also spent quite a bit of time teaching them the ins and outs of the website builder. Maureen has decided, with my whole-hearted support,to build the content from scratch, taking parts from the old site, but not moving content over and "as is" with the intention to review and improve it later. This allows her to easily re-organize the site and go from there. This will be far easier, and the result will be better in the end. The NEQM does not have a huge site. Combing through each page now is a bit of a crunch, but then it's done. This is a great opportunity for Maureen, who is the PR director, to review every bit of information on their site. Some pages are out of date, some are poorly written. Maureen has been with the museum only a year. She inherited the website which was very difficult to for her to update using Dreamweaver. Many hands have contributed to the site during the past five years since it has been designed. Now Maureen can review all pages, combine like information on one page, and organize them more logically. Since Maureen writes the NEQM Newsletter, their "e-blasts," press releases, etc. she is has set a tone and style of presentation. The website should conform to these other communications. Now it will!
Maureen began building some pages on the site. Remember, now this is real -- no more test/play sites. True, it is not visible on the web, but because this is the real thing, Maureen is looking at this differently. "Now how am I actually going to use the capabilities of this site? How do I use what we have to make the best presentation?" are questions she is asking herself. She decided to put the name of the page in the red header below the logo. I think that's fine, but that box gives her the opportunity to be creative and keep the site fresh. In the pages I created for the library, I put a photo there and used a special font that seemed "scholoarly" if that makes any sense; it was sort of an Old English look. However, Maureen and Polly think the box takes up a little too much room and asked me to make the box a little bit shorter. Although I don't agree, I do have to remember the site belongs to the NEQM and they ultimately must make some of these style decisions. So, at Maureen's request, I shortened the height of the box from 183px to 140px. If the box is only used for words, no problem. But it's really a bit too small for most images. The good news is that if they change their mind, it's a no-brainer to change it back!
Today Maureen, Polly, and I sat down and discussed strategy for moving the website content to the new site. I also spent quite a bit of time teaching them the ins and outs of the website builder. Maureen has decided, with my whole-hearted support,to build the content from scratch, taking parts from the old site, but not moving content over and "as is" with the intention to review and improve it later. This allows her to easily re-organize the site and go from there. This will be far easier, and the result will be better in the end. The NEQM does not have a huge site. Combing through each page now is a bit of a crunch, but then it's done. This is a great opportunity for Maureen, who is the PR director, to review every bit of information on their site. Some pages are out of date, some are poorly written. Maureen has been with the museum only a year. She inherited the website which was very difficult to for her to update using Dreamweaver. Many hands have contributed to the site during the past five years since it has been designed. Now Maureen can review all pages, combine like information on one page, and organize them more logically. Since Maureen writes the NEQM Newsletter, their "e-blasts," press releases, etc. she is has set a tone and style of presentation. The website should conform to these other communications. Now it will!
Maureen began building some pages on the site. Remember, now this is real -- no more test/play sites. True, it is not visible on the web, but because this is the real thing, Maureen is looking at this differently. "Now how am I actually going to use the capabilities of this site? How do I use what we have to make the best presentation?" are questions she is asking herself. She decided to put the name of the page in the red header below the logo. I think that's fine, but that box gives her the opportunity to be creative and keep the site fresh. In the pages I created for the library, I put a photo there and used a special font that seemed "scholoarly" if that makes any sense; it was sort of an Old English look. However, Maureen and Polly think the box takes up a little too much room and asked me to make the box a little bit shorter. Although I don't agree, I do have to remember the site belongs to the NEQM and they ultimately must make some of these style decisions. So, at Maureen's request, I shortened the height of the box from 183px to 140px. If the box is only used for words, no problem. But it's really a bit too small for most images. The good news is that if they change their mind, it's a no-brainer to change it back!
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