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Tag: websites
When it comes to your library’s website, are you a climate change denier?
Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion. W. Edwards Deming One of the least comfortable parts of my…
Is Alexa killing off websites? Not quite.
I ran across this Medium post by tech futurist Michael Spencer the other day. In it, Spencer claims that websites are…
Level up your library’s website with this one little thing
In 2016, my workplace did a study to determine the state of various issues on public library websites in Ohio….
Is your library’s website costing your patrons money?
For several years, I was a lucky customer of Verizon with a grandfathered, unlimited data plan. Last year, in an…
What’s still missing from Ohio public library websites?
Recently, at my place of work, we decided to do a broad survey of Ohio’s public library websites for some…
3 things you can learn from other websites
Let’s start with defining “other” here: I mean sites that aren’t library websites. If you do nothing else, I want…
Stop putting out the “welcome mat”
The temptation is overwhelming. After all, libraries are friendly places, right? We wouldn’t want our patrons to think they weren’t…
Polar bears, Che Guevara and porn
(Eric Jordan did an update to his first “Webmaster” vignette, and I’m posting it here for collective enjoyment. Thanks, Eric!)…
Who is living in your house?
I count among my good Internet friends a certain Eric Jordan, who can not only outpun anyone I know, but…
Why web standards matter and why your library (really) has to care
It’s pretty easy to explain to people why their web sites need certain kinds of standards; take, for example, Section…