Comments on P E O P L E P O I N T S: NZ LIANZA web site

@Hana the fact that one of the project team is hav...

2010-04-27T22:26:10.796+12:00

@Hana the fact that one of the project team is having a baby is completely irrelevant to this discussion. I would feel very upset if someone made such a comment about me verbally - let alone online.

I agree with your points, Paul. I think the poten...

2010-04-21T10:58:10.597+12:00

I agree with your points, Paul. I think the potential is there for it to be a much better, richer, more engaging site than it currently is.

Librarians are, generally speaking, fussy 'attention to detail' people, myself included, so it's no great surprise that the annoying fiddly things are what many of us are irked by at the moment.

I would love to see content that is contributed from all over the place, an acknowledgment of the fact that LIANZA is part of a broader community of NZ librarianship and information management (how about Christchurch City Libraries or The Room of Infinite Diligence blogs on your blogroll? Or this one?), and quite frankly the overwhelming "texti-ness" of the pages frustrates me. I want to see pictures of librarians and librarians being interesting!

So, I'm a little disappointed in it at the moment, possibly just because it looks like most of the content has just been replicated from the old site. Hopefully this will grow and change as things carry on. I will certainly be checking in often to see how things progress.

I have been a wee bit disappointed. The bugs have...

2010-04-21T10:40:13.660+12:00

I have been a wee bit disappointed.

The bugs have only reinforced my bad impression of Drupal.

Since LIANZA paid for this and obviously it was the CMS as Drupal is opensource it begs a number of questions....

I have been finding it hard to not be too critical...

Hi Paul I agree that debate and conversation and f...

2010-04-20T22:05:11.861+12:00

Hi Paul I agree that debate and conversation and feedback are so necessary for any new site.
Content, is, indeed, totally, vital, but really bad display in common browsers and ipsum dorum stuff is a seriously bad mistake. Unfortunately with the LIANZA site it seems that there isn' t a clear forum for feedback on either of these matters.

Hi Paul I agree too. As a member of the developme...

2010-04-20T18:49:15.167+12:00

Hi Paul

I agree too. As a member of the development committee, I've been keeping my opinions somewhat to myself (also, because I'm purposefully not on nz-libs, I miss a lot of the action!)

Visual design & IA are important, but as you say - content is the actual point of most sites. I'm sure there's loads of it tucked away, ready to be released upon the world once the task of transferring content from the old site to the new is completed.

I'm also sure that bugs will being being fixed as swiftly as possible, and that a wish-list of enhancements will be building up already.

As we both know, community is harder than it looks. Personally, I think the two best thing members of the library profession can do if they want to improve the experience of the site is report bugs (and remember how helpful screenshots and links are in these reports!) and create a profile & start contributing to the community section.

-- Courtney

totally agree with you Paul. The site is actually...

2010-04-20T18:13:31.479+12:00

totally agree with you Paul. The site is actually riddled with technical problems. I believe Megan wanted to see this baby off into the world before she had her own real one, with the latter the one requiring the real work and attention.

Posts on the new LIANZA website are spawning already with debate happening. It was upsetting to see the web design team's work to date being critiqued so openly on a forum such as nz-libs. I think it was a little inappropriate and inconsiderate.

I believe we need to get some content up from other avenues such as interviews of past conference speakers on youtube or vimeo. I think that would be great. Also 4, 5 and 6 able to be implemented easily.

I really wish I could actually help them in this...