Comments on: LIS Website Banner Image

By: Ian McBride

Ian McBride — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:09:42 +0000

After some discussion in today’s LIS Website Team meeting, we decided that we wanted to use different images for each of the major areas of the LIS site and assigned the banner images to the sites as follows:

#1: Helpdesk, Administrative Systems (i.e. Banner, Hyperion) documentation, and Telephone Services
#2: Library
#3: LIS Home Page
#4: Curricular Technology

By: Joseph Watson

Joseph Watson — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:00:56 +0000

I strongly prefer #2 with #3 as distant 2nd

By: Kellam Ayres

Kellam Ayres — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:59:51 +0000

These banner options are great, I really like them all. I’m leaning towards #2, but will be interested to see what everything looks like once all of the page elements are brought together. We may decide at that point that we need the banner to be less “busy,” and in that case #3 would work well.

By: Jeff Rehbach

Jeff Rehbach — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:24:24 +0000

Simply from my personal taste in design, I like #3 followed by #1.
Anyone not familiar with the campus or library won’t necessarily know what these are…

Echoing most of the comments above, #2 may do the best in representing that we serve people (and collect books, and, gee, chances are some of the people in the chairs even have a laptop open!) — this might be best for, say, the “interior” Library site.

By: Ian McBride

Ian McBride — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:33:33 +0000

These are really easy to switch out later, so our decision is in no way permanent, just our feeling at the moment. However, Pam has to prepare over 200 of these images (one for every academic department, program, and administrative office). She was nice enough to give us four to start with and I think we should confine our selection to the four we’ve been given, at least for the initial launch of the site, so that she has time to make the graphics for other sites.

Now, to throw another curveball out there: we don’t necessarily have to use just one of these. Using just one does provide a consistent look-and-feel between all of the LIS sites, but we might decide that using a different image for a different function of LIS is appealing. For instance, we could use #1 for the main LIS site, #2 for the Library, #3 for the Helpdesk, and #4 for Curricular Technology, or some other combination. We wouldn’t want to get too granular with this and have different images for the printer documentation, but it might be appealing at the level of those large sub-sites.

By: Arabella Holzapfel

Arabella Holzapfel — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:43:03 +0000

Seeing that the real-size image 2 has discernible human beings in it, and not being able to get Terry’s pigeon image out of my mind, I’m switching my vote to number 2.

With a follow-up question – will it be possible to easily change it in the future? Are we making a more or less permanent decision here?

By: Elin Waagen

Elin Waagen — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:45:35 +0000

In order of preference –
3 – for the simplicity of design and the hint of sky/soaring
1 – for the reflection of Old Chapel and the world outside – suggests a broader view outside the confines of research and academia
2 – for inviting us in
4 – not as inviting or representative

Are there any images looking out from the East Reading Room with the Green Mountains framed in the windows? I was up there the other day as the sun was setting (a beautiful rosy sky lighting the room) and I wondered if maybe a view from the inside looking out could better reflect our mission of bringing knowledge and engaging with the world? And also suggest a shared view from our other LIS spaces? And also share a little bit of our VT location? Just a thought.

By: Dan Frostman

Dan Frostman — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:48:14 +0000

I will buck the trend and say #3.

By: Doreen Bernier

Doreen Bernier — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:36:01 +0000

I prefer #2

By: Ian McBride

Ian McBride — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:20:31 +0000

Pam has produced cleaned up versions of each of these images. I’ve put them the the File Uploads area for the LIS home page where they can be referenced for use in other sites. The path to that area is http://midd2.middlebury.edu/offices/technology/lis/files

I’ve also applied #2 (which currently has the most support) to this site so people can see how it looks in the actual site.