Web Team Agenda 12/01/04

1. Announcements: creating new pages and directories
2. Discussion of new index page and rollout
• Draft exists at http://137.165.201.112/library/test_index.php
3. Status reports on outstanding projects (time permitting)

Please take a look at our active and proposed projects - http://www.williams.edu/library/admin/projects/

Notes: Jason

*Any questions or suggestions can come to me.

A Few Announcements:

- Meeting Minutes from November 10 have been posted at http://libweb.williams.edu/committees/web/minutes/nov1004.html

- There are two web team meetings in December - December 1 and December 15. (The December 8 meeting was moved to December 1.)

- I ordered some books that might be of interest. If you are interested, stop by my office to have a look. (See titles below.)

Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook
by Dan Cederholm
June 2004
ISBN: 1-59059-381-2

Build Your Own Database Driven Website: Using PHP and MySQL, 3rd ed.
by Kevin Yank
October 2004
ISBN: 0-9572402-1-8

Learning PHP 5, 1st Edition
By David Sklar
June 2004
ISBN: 0-596-00560-1

More Eric Meyer on CSS
by Eric A Meyer
April 2004
ISBN: 0-7357-1425-8

SEO - Search Engine Optimization

Pardon the jargon... After our discussion about how search engines are indexing sites at the last meeting, it occurred to me that the team might want to read a little more. SEO is a set of strategies web designers can use to make their site more accessible and readable for search engines. It's an evolving field, but here are two practical articles worth reading if you have some free time.

SEO and Your Web Site
By Alan K'necht
Published by digital Web Magazine on August 4, 2004
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/seo_and_your_web_site/

Secret Benefits of Search Engine optimization: Increased Usability
By Trenton Moss
Published by SitePoint on November 15, 2004
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/increased-usability

Web Team Agenda 11/10/04

1. Announcements: xhtml meeting, "too many connections" error, timestamp on include files
2. Status reports on outstanding projects
3. Discussion of Research/FAQ template

Please take a look at our active and proposed projects - http://www.williams.edu/library/admin/projects/

Notes: Jodi

Sorry, the previous posts had some wrong urls and formatting issues.

I made a little adjustment to the stylesheet on the test server. It makes all links that appear within certain parts of the page appear as bold. It changes the look on all kinds of pages, but this may not be all bad. Here are some of affected pages:

new style subject guides:

http://137.165.201.112/library/subjectguides/index.php

http://137.165.201.112/library//subjectguides/chemistry/index.php

old style subject guides:

http://www.williams.edu/library/subjectguides/index.php

http://www.williams.edu/library/subjectguides/chemistry/index.php

new style indexes:

http://137.165.201.112/library/indexes/index.php

http://137.165.201.112/library/indexes/news.php

old style indexes:

http://www.williams.edu/library/indexes/index.php

http://www.williams.edu/library/indexes/news.php

Please take a look and post your thoughts.

Jason

Topic: Font Color for links.

Could we make the font color for the links a darker purple? I am noticing more and more that when links are embedded in text, the light purple/lavender tends to disappear making it very difficult to know that something is a link. For an example of what I mean, take a look at a page that Lori just created for Disserations:
http://www.williams.edu/library/how/dissertation.php The link at the end of each line is almost invisible. Could we create a great contrast or/and have a different color?

Christine