The Never-Ending Story, Web Redesign

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job. Adlai E. Stevenson
A library website redesign is inevitable, you can tackle the job of making it better. Instead of focusing how the frontend looks, this presentation will introduce ways to improve how the backend works. Topics include: simplifying design, creating reusable content, improving underlying technology, and evaluating silos.

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1. The Neverending Story: A Website Redesign roy.degler@okstate.edu Roy Degler
2. Presenter No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. Mignon McLaughlin
3. Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale Redesign Web Redesign?
4. website Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale Redesign Web Redesign?
5. Redesign Web Redesign 
 It’s going to happen!
 Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job. Adlai E. Stevenson
6. It’s going to happen! Don’t Panic!
 Redesign Challenges Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options. Simon Sinek
7. A Great Opportunity Inside of every problem lies an opportunity. Robert Kiyosaki
8. Build Opportunities A Great Opportunity If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Milton Berle
9. Build Be Creative Opportunities A Great Opportunity A creative project is a moving target. You never end up where you start. Evangeline Lilly
10. Build Be Creative New Technology Opportunities A Great Opportunity Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child. John Lasseter
11. Approach Try Something Different In network TV, you have to present the box before you can step outside it. Simon Baker.
12. Approach Think inside the Box You can best fight any existing evil from the inside. Hattie McDaniel
13. Redesign Think inside the Box The fights for me are always about what you cannot see, the intangibles. It's about what's inside - what really is inside. Eddie Alvarez
14. Approach Basic Ideas Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change. Barbara Januszkiewicz
15. Approach Basic Ideas Simplify What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot
16. Approach Basic Ideas Simplify Technology Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. Thomas Carlyle
17. Approach Basic Ideas Simplify Technology Content Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up. Tate Linden
18. Simplify Make it simple, but significant. Don Draper
19. Simplify Agile I need to be agile because I do all my own stunts. Luke Goss
20. Small incremental changes Simplify Agile Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. Vincent Van Gogh
21. Small incremental changes Users know your website Simplify Agile Cats are connoisseurs of comfort. James Herriot
22. Simplify Patterns The details are not the details. They make the design. Charles Eames
23. Simplify Patterns More than the home page Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. Steve Jobs
24. Simplify Patterns More than the home page Reuse and simplify I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work. Cameron Mackintosh
25. Simplify Patterns More than the home page Reuse and simplify Head start 
 (Bootstrap, Foundation) A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good. Martin LeBlanc
26. Simplify Start Over Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford
27. Simplify Start Over Debugging is hard There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. Steven Levy
28. Simplify Start Over Debugging is hard Mistakes help Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes, Design is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams
29. Simplify Start Over Debugging is hard Mistakes help Start over with a blank page I enjoy the freedom of the blank page. Irvine Welsh
30. Technology Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation. Dean Kamen
31. Technology CMS Software makes the world go round. Thomas Peterffy
32. Change? Technology CMS Every villain has their belief system that makes perfect sense to them. Patty Jenkins
33. Change? Enterprise Technology CMS So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too. Stevie Ray Vaughan
34. Change? Enterprise Take Advantage Technology CMS Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it. Sir Mix-a-Lot
35. Technology CMS Features 'Programming' is a four-letter word. Craig Bruce
36. Built In Technology CMS Features There is a hero built in all of us. Michael Israel
37. Built In Plug Ins Technology CMS Features Would you like fries with that?
38. Built In Plug Ins Develop Technology CMS Features Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet. Scott Adams
39. Technology Consult Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home. Eric Sevareid
40. Community Technology Consult It takes collaboration across a community to develop better skills . Angel Gurria
41. Community Experts Technology Consult You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert. Denis Waitley
42. Technology Platform Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there. Prince
43. Speed Technology Platform The speed of the boss is the speed of the team. Lee Iacocca
44. Speed Ease Technology Platform Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. Saadi
45. Speed Ease Failover Technology Platform Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability. Ho Chi Minh
46. Technology Other Tools We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. Marshall McLuhan
47. Integration (LibGuides . . .) Technology Other Tools Understanding is a two-way street. Eleanor Roosevelt
48. Integration (LibGuides . . .) New Tools (Machform . . .) Technology Other Tools You want experimentation. Every once in awhile, you stumble upon something that blows your mind. Jeremy Stoppelman
49. Content Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up. Tate Linden
50. Content Revise/Edit I don't publish anything I haven't worked over 100 times. Donald Hall Edit and Improve text
51. Content Revise/Edit What's another word for Thesaurus? Steven Wright Edit and Improve text Create Reusable Text
52. Content C.O.P.E. There's no harm being a copycat. If someone else is doing a good job, copy. It's free. Uday Kotak Create Once Publish Everywhere
53. Reusable APIs / JS By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent. Mark Zuckerberg
54. Exportable Reusable APIs / JS #library-website {border-style: none;} #mime { border-color: transparent; }
55. Exportable Consistency Content APIs / JS I'm trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information. Matthew Yglesias
56. Simplify Technology Content Things aren’t always #000000 and #FFFFFF. Review That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned. Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
57. Questions A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. Bruce Lee