Session 3: Assessing Your Library Website: Practical Tips for Redesigning Your Library’s Website
Even if you don’t have full control over your library’s website, you can take some small, important steps toward improving your users’ experience. In this webinar—the third part of a three-part workshop on library websites—learn from Laura Solomon, a web developer and library services manager, how to write better for the web, tweak navigation and graphics, and other important, small fixes to assist in creating a website that solves your users’ problems, not add to them.
About Laura Solomon
Laura Solomon, MCIW, MLS, is the Library Services Manager for the Ohio Public Library Information Network and a W3C-certified front-end web developer. She has been doing web development and design for more than twenty years, in both public libraries and as an independent consultant. She specializes in developing with Drupal. She is a 2010 Library Journal Mover & Shaker. She’s written three books about social media and content marketing specifically for libraries, and speaks nationally on both these and technology-related topics. As a former children’s librarian, she enjoys bringing the “fun of technology” to audiences and in giving libraries the tools they need to better serve the virtual customer