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- What about subtabs? We won't legislate, just ask people to keep simplicity in mind. having subtabs could help with the busy feel with them --you can put less on a page with subtabs. If you feel the need for many subtabs consider reorganizing your pages, creating mulitple pages or sticking with dreamweaver.
- When given an option when adding links we should tell people to choose open in a new window. The default when you click a tab that links to another page seems to be to open in a new tab. However, IE seems to behave differently. Someone (Nicole?) will need to look at this.
- Remlee will see if they can get the icon that is 2 boxes to go away. It isn't intuitive what it means.
Page shortcuts- (ie the simple urls.) --We should require everyone to use them and make them concise, not already used and intuitive.
Comments feature-You can have comments for a whole page and individual boxes. Currently it is set up to be moderated. Should we limit in any way?No, we won't limit but we will include in documentation that you can disable.
We looked at whether links added should open a new window, new tab or in the same window.
Page Categories/Subject categories: Right now setup as 7 subjects see libguides home. We want to be able to associate to multiple subjects. Also, what subjects should there be there? It doesnt now match to Vera subjects. There isn't consistent between the subject guides listings, the Vera subjects listing and the Vera Multisearch. Maggie will talk to Nicole and UIG. We're leaning toward the subject guide categories but this leaves out the stuff we need that are interdisciplinary (for instance publication types.) We would like to be able to list guides under multiple subjects. Can list under multiple guides as an administrator but Remlee will look into making it possible for all authors to do this.
Guide Statuses:
Do we ever want to have libguides be private (as opposed to unpublished.)? Private will be good for internal use and for sharing drafts with others.
Column layout. Do we want to recommend 2 vs. 3 columns. We want to keep the righthand column as informational--like the profile etc. Other than that, we won't legislate. We realized that we could delete a contact box, add a box in its place and then use rich text to manually to put in contact information in a less rigid way than the defaults on the profile box. This gets around the cntact me for groups etc. quandry.
Do we want to have guidelines for how many boxes should be on a page? Seems to be hard to legislate. If theres lots of scrolling etc. think of reorganizing.
What else to discuss? Are we going to look at every type of content box and try using them so we could make recommendations, handy tips and explanation of each of them. We decided to divide them up:
Peter: Rich text/Dynamic Content/scripts-, RSS feeds.
Angie: Embedding video and interactive polls, user link submssion.
Remlee: remote script box, pod cast, web links
Maggie: Date and Events, Documents & Files
Georgiana: Tag Cloud, Books from the catalog.
Do this by TUESDAYS MEETING.
Next Meeting:
Still have the issue of linking from one libguides page to another libguide. Currently when you do this you only get to the home page of the guide. We want to be able to link to a whole guide (guide with access to the subpages.). Is there a workaround? YES!:
When adding a new tab don't use COPY PAGE FROM ANOTHER GUIDE, ENTER THE URL FOR ANOTHER GUIDES. So,
Talk about integrating research guides with database listings.
Talk about boxes we should have that everyone can link to (like the search our collections box). Are there others?? Or other tools? -Bibliographic software, the search widget.
- Page categories: which should we use? (under system settings)
- Tabs: How many? Naming conventions? Sub-tabs?
- Shortcut URLs?
- Comments?
- Guide statuses?
- Rules for page layout? 2/3 column recommendations?
- When should people link to, instead of copy?
- What else would we like to see on tools template page that Nicole is making?