Do you know your library website needs work but you're not sure where to start? In this workshop, I'll show you a number of ways to improve your library websites quickly and easily. Participants should be willing to volunteer their own library websites, and will walk away with an understanding of how to fix common website access, usage, and performance problems and also how to measure the impact of these changes (all in 90 minutes!).
I'll take volunteered websites and work through a number of common problems that might be plaguing the site, including usability, accessibility, and performance issues. By using the browser's Inspector, I'll show participants how to make changes to a site on-the-fly and quickly measure the impact of that change by using online tools. I'll encourage participants to follow along on their own computers, and give some exercises to learn the basics of the Web Inspector.
The workshop will teach valuable practical skills to librarians working on the Web, but will also give managers insight into the complexity behind making websites that serve the diverse needs of our libraries' patrons.