We will be going live soon with some modifications to the home page. This page doesn't make dramatic changes to the existing site, and has nearly identical content to the existing home page. What has changed is how and where we are displaying information.
http://www.apl.org/indexcr.html
This page will be less text-oriented and try to tell more stories with graphics. It will contain a slideshow that features a mix of upcoming important events, and some of our "core" services we want to promote. For example we will have core slides for:
- Friends
- Volunteers
- FB page
- WIFI
- Databases
- Recurring program series
- Etc...
Below the slideshow you will notice blurbs similar to what you see on "what's new" currently. We will be referring to these as "stories." The slideshow and stories are in the center of the page to give them the most prominent positioning. The stories are fed through a blogger blog that staff will be asked to contribute to. The things that go in the blogger blog are decided by a subset of the marketing committee that Michael has assembled.
If you have ideas for slides or stories please let Michael Kenney know. He has a calendar of upcoming programs which helps us find places where we need to focus on specific important events (for example, the book festival, SLP, etc...) - this calendar also gives us the ability to see where we may have some "down time" in the calendar to rotate in more of the core slides.
The left column is very similar to what you are used to with the existing page.
The right column features a feed from the calendar with brief listings. Visitors to the site can click through to the more complete entries.
Please take some time to get familiar with the page before we go live with it. We would like to put it out for the public in the next week or so.
Sara has done an amazing job on this and I hope you will enjoy it.
1 comment:
Looks great, and should work well -- nice job!!
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