Parking lot for future discussion (Anyone can add to this!!)
Page layout/style:
- Should we use tags?
- What categories should we use?
- Tabs? How many? Naming conventions? Sub-tabs?
- Maybe Marion is going to figure this out but how should the vera database subcategories be presented here. Would all the subcategories be listed in one box with databases underneath? Each category heading hotlinked to a page with the databases listed? --peter
Best practices:
- Teach people to link to, instead of copy.
- How to create tool page for people to copy from? When, who, how? Maybe have 2 pages, one managed by Nicole & one for anyone to use?
TO DO:
- Schedule 4-5 training sessions with all members of task force sharing the load of training (plus Nicole & Darcy?)
- After training sessions: schedule drop in sessions
Random notes by Angie so they're in one place:
- Have people add the Post to LibGuides bookmark. Really easy to add links this way.
- Cut and paste works really well, including screen shots, using the rich text/dynamic boxes.
- But when I tried to edit this page, the html got weird and I had problems getting fonts back to size, etc. Maybe it's best to do this if it won't be edited for awhile?
- Polls could be really useful in course pages, maybe even while teaching to get instant responses.
- I want to be able to associate my page with Engineering AND Science, but it seems like I can only choose one or the other.
- What should we require for the user profile? I don't like putting in office numbers since that's misleading in many cases, and most people don't want drop by traffic. Or maybe I'm jumping to conclusions for everyone. We should also determine *if* a picture is used, what type of picture is acceptable.
- what to call the profile box. I called mine "ask us" for more name recognition?
- I would recommend we tell people NOT to add pages to another person's page unless they are specifically told to. I hope this wouldn't happen, but just in case.... I was able to add a page to Maggie's companies and Remlee's Test page.
- How will link checking happen? How does it happen now? Is there a crawler that checks for broken links?
- I wanted to link from my 2.009 page to all of Maggie's Companies pages. But when I include a tab to her Companies home page, I don't see all of tabs associated with Companies. Is there a way to link to them all without me having to add all the pages?
Possible uses for LibGuides that we won't have time/scope for:
- Virtual Browsery (Nicole asked Hum already, so she may follow up in Summer)