Minor changes to new home page per IRT request

I showed Maria (IRT Webmaster) our pages Thursday and she was really pleased. She asked me to make some minor changes. She asked me to change

1. the footer a little to make it look more like the ACC footer
2. add ICT to the left Nav bar under Services & Progs (The wording will be Media/Computer Centers (ICT)
3. add ICT to the quick links -- same wording as above

Item 1 --

In order to change the footer on the homepage, I moved the LS address info to the left column under the rotating Read poster. I adapted the ACC homepage and IRT homepage footer information to meet our needs. (Note: I had to comment out the original CSS style and use Maria's IRT style on the footer links to make them work correctly for us.) I also modified the footer for the sub pages to make it look similar.

Items 2 and 3 --

The length of the line was too short to include (ICT) and I don't think this is a deal breaker so I used only "Media and Computer Centers."

The page I'm working on is at
http://library.austincc.edu/LibHome-BB-foot.php

This is the page I will eventually use as the homepage. I have been working on some standard php includes for the sub pages that I can use also on this page so I'll use them in the final version.

Landing pages for breadcrumbs

[I've revised this page with more information.]
It appears that index.php does work the way index.htm works with breadcrumbs. Maria has made that feature active so that we can create the index.php version of the files listed below when we go active. I'll do this on Saturday, 22 Aug, so I can test them in preparation for Monday.

Will not have to do this:
{ Maybe I have to get Melanie to invoke something. However, we can use a redirect index.htm to achieve the same thing. And, it wouldn't have to be updated along with the base file. One just needs to know the base file name. }

Base file names:

/eresources/FindArticles.php
/gen-info/about.php (about the library)
/gen-info/AUP/acceptableUse.php
/gen-info/Dir/LS-Dir.php
/gen-info/Services/svc-prog.php
/help/GetHelp.php
/loc/index-loc.php

progress on gen-info pages plus TABLES

We are making big progress on the gen-info pages. Please see the updated spreadsheet at
http://acclswiki.austincc.edu/cm/wiki/?id=63168

Also, a Wowie today! with Teresa's table styling. I was able to simplify it a little for the faculty page for putting items on Reserve temporarily at:
http://library.austincc.edu/gen-info/SvcsNEW/reserves-fac-about.php

Maybe later, I'll play around with putting the code in an Excel spreadsheet along with our staff directory information for ease in updating the alpha list. Browser readers read this kind of table well.

Structure of the gen-info folders

This is really about the information/files which were all in the main /gen-info/ folder.

Note: When using breadcrumbs navigation, a "folder" has to have an index file to go back to after any file/webpage is viewed and someone chooses to use the breadcrumbs.

Previously this folder included a large number of files concerning staff directories, policies, lending information, information about various services and programs -- all in the main folder.

-- As an aside, there are existing subfolders in this main folder like /campuses/ or /knowhow/.

To make breadcrumb navigation more fruitful and intuitive, two subfolders will be added to group most of the numerous files within the main folder and the other files will remain in the main folder:

• Dir -- to contain all the staff directories
• Svcs -- to contain the files related to services and programs

The spreadsheet of LS Web files will be updated in the wiki which is linked from this page
(http://acclswiki.austincc.edu/cm/wiki/?id=63168)
to show the grouped files. The base breadcrumb page is indicated in red.

Some pages not to forget

There are some pages that really don't have to be converted -- at least, not right away and only to convert to css and away from tables -- don't really need the standard header and footer. Pages like

• ddeliv.htm
• the textbook pages
• the laptop pages, etc.

Note: These could be renamed temporarily if necessary to the php extension, but only if there might be a link we made to that new extension. We'll find when we have people test the site.

Some pages not to forget to convert: (I'll be adding to this as I think of them.)

• Locations and hours
• no chat versions of
  
• the homepage header
• the topsection4 header
• About the Library
• Mission statement

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