Web Redesign – New Design, part 2
Posted: July 8th, 2016As a continuation of our last post about the new design, here are a few more designs:
Library News - Website Redesign
Launch of new website July 27, 2016
Posted: June 30th, 2016We are pleased to share with you the launch of our new website. After months of planning and hard work, we are delighted to announce the official launch on July 27, 2016!
Our goal with this new website is to provide our visitors with the same great services and resources, through a more modern, accessible, and mobile-friendly site.
Beginning on July 27 2016, you will find the new website at our current location at library.queensu.ca.
Web Redesign – New Design
Posted: June 24th, 2016We have been very busy these last months building the new website. As we prepare to announce our launch date (coming soon!), we would like to share some designs with you. It was quite a task to come up with a design that fit in well with the Queen’s landscape and also suited our needs here at the Library. We are quite pleased with the end result. A big thank you to all the participants and collaborators in this process – we couldn’t have done it without your help.
Web Redesign – New Database Search
Posted: November 6th, 2015As we plan for our new website, one very important feature to plan for is the database search tool. We have tools such as Summon and QCAT to provide access to the majority of our collections, but the database search relies on the functionality of Drupal (our CMS) and needs to be essentially built from the ground up.
Web Redesign – Creative Brief, part 3
Posted: October 23rd, 2015Today we’d like to share with you the rest of the answers posed to you in our post on the creative brief.
What considerations need to be addressed within the web project?
- Streamlined and simplified
- Clear and intuitive to navigate
- Accessible (WCAG 2.0 compliant)
- Responsive (mobile)
- While the Library site is autonomous from the Queens University website, it should feel like it belongs to the same family
Web Redesign – Creative Brief, part 2
Posted: October 2nd, 2015Today we’d like to share with you some of the answers to the questions we presented you with in our last post about the creative brief.
What is the positioning of the site?
Like most universities, Queens University Library resources are distributed over several locations serving multiple subject matter in many formats. However, these are all resources served and supported by a single entity. As such they are all One Library.
Web Redesign – Creative Brief
Posted: September 18th, 2015As we move into the design phase of this project, one of the exercises we were asked to undertake by our design team was a creative brief. Essentially, this was answering a series of high-level questions about our new website. While we plan to discuss our approach to these questions in future blog posts, today we would like to simply list the questions we were asked for all to consider. The questions are as follows:
Web Redesign – Wireframes
Posted: August 21st, 2015We have recently begun a very interesting part of the web redesign project called wireframing. The purpose of wireframing is to arrange content on the page, also known as blocking. When examining wireframes, it is important to realize that it is not the same as design; that is to say that a wireframe does not attempt to address design issues such as fonts, colours and imagery. Read the rest of this entry »
Web Redesign – Working with a Web Design Firm
Posted: August 14th, 2015The Library web redesign project team has hired an external web design firm to work with us on the next phase of the project. As you can imagine, there are many companies to choose from, and we had to carefully consider our criteria. We developed a project brief that outlined the work that we needed done, and described the foundational work that we had prepared. As with everything, we had to consider budget, and were looking for the best and most cost-effective match for QUL. Read the rest of this entry »
Web Redesign – Browser Support
Posted: July 10th, 2015For the next version of the Library website, we have been wrestling with what versions of legacy browsers we will support. We have come to the decision that we will support Microsoft’s Internet Explorer versions 9 and newer (IE9+).This means that our current users of IE7 and IE8 will need to upgrade or choose a different browser in order to have a functional experience on our new website.
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