Category Archives: design

I know things seem quiet on the Leddy Library website front, but trust me, we are working away, getting our backend ready [insert bootylicious joke here], and working out interface ideas. One bit of advice that floats around those occupied … Continue reading →

I made a bit of a breakthrough in my own understanding of RDF and Drupal 7 a couple weeks ago and I’ve written about it in my personal blog here. After I reported to the web team last week that … Continue reading →

A couple of reactions have come forward on jamun, our attempt to “search the web site and everything else” project.  For the most part, the comments have been quite positive, but some significant modifications have also been suggested. The “pane” … Continue reading →

My task is to take a run at figuring out theming for Leddy’s new website, hopefully with considerable progress by the end of March. Here are a few as yet incomplete thoughts about what our theme needs to be able … Continue reading →

The more that I’ve been thinking and consulting with others about how to handle indexes in our new website, the more I think that using URL shortners or PURL or Handle urls are not the way to proceed. Ideally, the … Continue reading →

So, one of the reasons why I’m frequently so down on LibGuides is that I feel that it’s a manifestation of weak social software. Weak social software, to me, is just regular old 1.0 software plus a star rating system … Continue reading →

So while we have been talking about what we would like our new website to look like, we’ve also been having conversations at MPOW about how to handle our growing number of ebooks.  And it was only through thinking through … Continue reading →