Students, Faculty, and Staff: Would you like the opportunity to help LIS improve its website and make it work for you? If you agree to help, we’ll observe and record you performing some tasks on the website. Sessions will be … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Sign up for LIS Website Testing!
Tag: lis web team
Usability Surveys on LIS Web Pages
The LIS web team is at it again! In a effort to improve the user experience on the LIS website we are conducting usability testing. For a few weeks you’ll find obtrusive mint green boxes in the corners of the … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Usability Surveys on LIS Web Pages
LIS Website Team Update: UNA
This is an update on the LIS Website Team’s progress toward the User Needs Analysis (UNA) piece of our charge. Right now we’re sharing the results and suggested changes that emerged from the UNA with the LIS Content Managers for … Continue reading →…Continue Reading LIS Website Team Update: UNA
Does tagging content make it easier to find with search? No.
I’ve received this question from several people now. Below are two videos from Matt Cutts who works on Google’s Webspam team explaining how tagging content mostly does not affect their search results. This also means that tagging largely will not … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Does tagging content make it easier to find with search? No.
LIS web presence – marketing project
The LIS Web team – Dan Frostman, Jess Isler, Richard Jenkins, Matt La France, & Barbara Merz – has been conducting a publicity blitz for chosen features of the LIS web presence. The selection was done in consultation with other … Continue reading →…Continue Reading LIS web presence – marketing project
Usability Testing & Web Analytics
Last month I attended a NERCOMP presentation on usability testing and web analytics at UMASS Amherst. The information from the presentation led by staff from Yale University will no doubt be valuable as the LIS web team explores further usability … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Usability Testing & Web Analytics
LIS Blog Update
I met with the LIS Website team this week and proposed some minor changes to this blog the most obvious of which is an update in the theme design. The other change I’ve just introduced are some quick links in … Continue reading →…Continue Reading LIS Blog Update