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\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Background<\/strong> Website Creation<\/strong> Information Architecture\/Classification System<\/strong> Module 7 discussed blind spots on websites.\u00a0 I decided to make my library homepage a blog.\u00a0 In this blog, I could post about book reviews, library promotions, book trailers and other exciting things in an attempt to draw the user in.\u00a0 Users would be able to quickly see what was new, what the website was about and where to go for more information.\u00a0 The side menu on the homepage has links to tags for related blog posts and links for Pinterest and Twitter.\u00a0 One limitation in Wix is that it currently has no built in feature for blog comments. I think this feature would allow the website to function as more of a virtual learning commons where discussions could take place between teachers, students and staff.<\/p>\n I have added a few features to my website in an attempt to make my website more of a virtual learning commons.\u00a0 I have provided links to the library\u2019s twitter account as well as an app that displays the library\u2019s twitter feed.\u00a0 I have also added class blog pages in hopes that students could use the library website as a way to connect to classmates.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I ran into another problem when creating the class blogs.\u00a0 My intention was to have the blogs supported on a Wix page, however, Wix only allows one blog per website which I used for my homepage.\u00a0 If I were to use this platform for an actual school website, I would either have to hyperlink to an outside blog site or change to a Weebly or WordPress site.<\/p>\n In my initial planning, I planned to put the catalog in the navigation bar as a hyperlink to the external site; however, Wix does not allow hyperlinks in the navigation bar. \u00a0I have had to include the catalog as a dropdown page in both Student Links and Teacher Links instead.<\/p>\n A few other things I think would make the site easier to navigate would be a side navigation bar on the How-To page as well as on the Staff Meeting Video page so that teacher\u2019s could easily navigate to their desired video.\u00a0 However, you can\u2019t create this in Wix.<\/p>\n Resources<\/strong> Conclusion<\/strong> Final Assignment-LIBE 465 Emily Rodgers (Klimchuk) My website can be found here:\u00a0http:\/\/emilyirodgers.wix.com\/pretendlibrary My planning sheet: \u00a0 Background I designed an elementary school library\u2019s website.\u00a0 This website is intended to be used by students and teachers at school and at home. Website Creation After attempting two other website platforms without great success, I stumbled upon Wix.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/emilyrodgers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/emilyrodgers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/emilyrodgers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/emilyrodgers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/emilyrodgers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/emilyrodgers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/emilyrodgers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/emilyrodgers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/emilyrodgers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/emilyrodgers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI designed an elementary school library\u2019s website.\u00a0 This website is intended to be used by students and teachers at school and at home.<\/p>\n
\nAfter attempting two other website platforms without great success, I stumbled upon Wix.\u00a0 (Our librarian later told me she used Wix to create our district\u2019s Book of the Year website.)\u00a0 Wix is by far the most novice friendly website design program I have used.\u00a0 I quickly figured out how to create, adjust, import and link in the Wix platform.<\/p>\n
\nWhen designing my website, I wanted it to be organized, clutter-free and easy to navigate.\u00a0 I stuck to the three-level rule and made sure I had a consistent navigation bar with broad labels in a consistent font, colour and style (Module 7).\u00a0 I attempted to create a hierarchical organization structure but ran into a small problem with Wix.\u00a0 I was not able to create a category on the navigation bar for a drop down menu without creating a page for the category.\u00a0 For instance, I couldn\u2019t create the About category that allowed a user to click on or hover over the About text for a drop down menu without creating an About page.\u00a0 This led to me having to create an About page with hyperlinks to the pages accessed by the drop down menu – a bit redundant.<\/p>\n
\nThe resources I have chosen for students are appropriate for an elementary school setting.\u00a0 Many of the resources are resources that our district subscribes to.\u00a0 While it is not ideal to have password protected websites linked to the library website because it is one extra step users must take, I would make sure students were aware of the password sheets available in the library.\u00a0 The teacher resources are ones that I have personally used and know to provide valuable information.\u00a0 I added a Staff Meeting Video page because last year our principal would show us a video every staff meeting but there was no central place to keep the videos for later reference.<\/p>\n
\nDespite some limitations with the Wix platform, I think I have managed to design a clean, hierarchal, user-friendly website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"