Minutes
Attending: Patricia O'Neill (chair), Susan Barnes (recorder), Tony Cosgrave, Steve Couch, Michael Engle, Janet Hogan, Peter MacDonald, Jill Powell, Nancy Skipper, Meryl White
We will now switch to an every-other-week Monday meeting schedule. Our next meeting will be Monday Feb 19, 9-11, Olin 106.
The group looked at the draft design guideline page created by Michael and Peter (http://www.mannlib.cornell.edu/design/dsigndoc.html, now now http://www.library.cornell.edu/design/dsigndoc.html [Ed.]). Patricia will write an introduction to the document; Michael will create a table of contents.
We went through the page and discussed various items:
Term definitions (ie, "metatags"): terms that appear in the design guidelines which are defined in the glossary will be indicated with a dagger and will be linked to their definition.
In the "Beginning of the Page" section: add requirement that library identification appear at the top of every page. Banner on main home page for each library's Web, then on additional pages a smaller indicator that includes the full name of the library. This could be in the form of simple text or a small graphic.
In the "Contents of the Page" section: move the statements on restricted access, and on links making sense in printed form, into the required section.
In the "End of the Page" section: omit the requirement to identify each page as an "official communication" of CUL; regarding the footer bar--require a link to CUL home page from library's home page, on other pages use elements as appropriate.
The Web Site Architecture section should be moved to the beginning, before "Beginning of the Page."
Items to be added to the draft design document: a section on forms and a section on accomodating nongraphical browsers. A brief discussion of some questions regarding renewal forms -- and whether the same form is adequate for all units -- led to the suggestion that the group talk to Susan Currie about this. Some form questions may need to be referred to the policy group.
Assignments for the next meeting: Susan B. will add links to icons (standard for CUL and Cornell, other useful ones) and Meryl will begin to create example templates.
Susan Barnes
Added February 6, 1996
Revised February 27, 1996
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