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Creating new content or sections for the web site
You would like to have a new page, or set of pages, or a new section added to the library's public web site. This new page(s)/section represents content that is not presently available on the web site.
The Web Advisory Committee (WAC) manages the direction, priorities, overall message, and quality of the library's public web site. As such, WAC will be the group to which you present your new content ideas.
These are the steps to follow in creating new content or sections for the library's public web site:
- Step One - Preparation: Prepare an outline of what you want your content to be -- what you want to say, who your audience is, what types of content will best express what you want to say.
- Step Two - Proposal: Contact WAC to present your ideas. You can come to a WAC meeting to talk about your plans if you like (we encourage this). WAC will then make sure that the library's public web site is the best, most appropriate, and most effective place for your content.
- Step Three - Development: You will prepare the content for your page(s) -- writing the text, organizing the content, and preparing whatever other content you want to be presented on your page(s)/section.
- WAC will work with you to integrate your content into the web site -- this includes look & feel of your pages in the context of the library's web site, integrating your page(s)/section into the web site's navigation, and making sure your new page(s)/section has visibility on the site.
- WAC's usability representative will consult, as needed, based on the forthcoming usability guidelines handbook.
- DLS staff will provide html/css markup and copyediting for spelling, grammar, and style consistency (e.g. "UT Arlington Library"). When the library has a stylebook, copyediting for style will follow the library's stylebook.
- Step Four - Implementation: When the page(s)/section is prepared, you will review it and provide comments/suggestions/changes/etc. before it is placed on the library's web site.
- Turnaround time and general development timeline will be worked out with you, WAC, and DLS web staff
- Step Five - Maintenance: You are the owner of your content, and so you should make regular reviews and updates or corrections to your content as is appropriate. Send those updates to DLS web staff as a regular web site update
Your contacts for developing your new web page(s)/section will be:
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