Progress as of 2/27/14

• Working with the IRT responsive template is proving to be good.  I am able to modify it to work for us fairly well.
• Used information from the HomePage links survey to determine what might go on the Navigation Bar.
• Finally figured out how to make the bar wider to accommodate 7 items instead of 6.
• Temporary drafts can be seen on http://library.austincc.edu/designtest.php
• NOTE: testing different things on different drafts so none really represent what the page will look like yet.
• Worked with a subgroup of the Banner subteam (Dave Wilson & Ashley Carr) to determine if a use the library icons might work for both IL and all LS web stuff.
• They like the idea so will work that into a draft for others to view.
• Ashley and Dave also gave me ideas about the place of elements on the home page and maybe subsequent pages.
• NOTE: will develop a subpage idea template to find out how subpage authors might like their information to look.  Need meeting with page authors.
• Currently working on an image slider for the Read Thumbnails. {See UPDATE}
• The IRT template has some slide code which I will test.
• I've also found a javascript slider code that provides randomness of display that I think might be a better solution. (http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/randomslide.shtml)
• I've massaged it and it works in a separate html page.  
• Need to put into a responsive draft to test
• The issue of updating the code files when we add new images is a minor problem
• {UPDATE} Because of the testing we did with several people, Read Poster thumbnails will not reside on the home page but will reside in the left side bar on some next tier pages. The current php rotate script works just fine for this purpose.  Reason: Every person said that the thumbnails were too distracting and did not contribute anything in particular to the page.  See link to Read Poster gallery in the Nav Bar - About Us.

Adding Spotlight on ... and What's New Feeds to What's new area

Added the following Feed scripts to the What's New area of the library web site so that the text updates as new entries are added to the blog.  Note:  When needed, one can add the static blog url for a particular posting such as the reminder to watch your belongings. (http://lswhatsnew.blogspot.com/2013_06_01_archive.html) above the feed scripts.


<div id="feed-wrapper" style="margin-top: -15px;">
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<script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.feedroll.com/rssviewer/feed2js.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Flswhatsnew.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault&num=1&targ=y&utf=y"  charset="UTF-8" type="text/javascript"></script>

<noscript>
<li><a href="http://www.feedroll.com/rssviewer/feed2js.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Flswhatsnew.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault&num=1&targ=y&utf=y&html=y">View RSS feed</a></li>
</noscript>

<!-- listing for Spotlight on -->
<div style="line-height: 0.9em;padding-left:10px;margin-top: -10px;">
<p style="margin-bottom:-8px;font-weight: bold;">Spotlight on ...</p>
<script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.feedroll.com/rssviewer/feed2js.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fspotlightaccls.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault&num=1&targ=y&utf=y"  charset="UTF-8" type="text/javascript"></script>

<noscript>
<a href="http://www.feedroll.com/rssviewer/feed2js.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fspotlightaccls.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault&num=1&targ=y&utf=y&html=y">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;View RSS feed</a>
</noscript> </div></div> <!-- end of spotlight style end of feed-wrapper-->