<div dir="ltr">Hi Jennifer,<div>Nice site! I loved your video of the new Read for a Lifetime books. Where did you get the new list? I think I missed a memo, because I haven't seen it anywhere. </div><div>Jane Harper</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 2:27 PM Jennifer Bromann-Bender via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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LRC website</a> from the old Google Sites to the new. It's actually very easy to work with. Anyway, I'm at Princeton High School so I am showing you a HS-focused site. I hope to keep building on my reader advisory but this is a start. Let me know if I can help
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<div>Our principal has asked all of his staff to revamp their web pages as we have been guilty of being stagnant. I think I </div>
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<div dir="ltr">I thought the same thing! Now more than ever I wanted our website to be effective. I just published the first phase of my new site, it took me about 2 days to get it completed. Its nothing fancy, but my goal was a simple, effective, scalable,
and user-friendly site. Our school is about 75% in person, so my first goal was to get a solid foundation in place for the new site, and then to reach out to the in person and remote teachers to see what they think and what I can add/modify to support them
all. <span><a href="https://sites.google.com/itasca10.org/franzenlibrary/home" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/itasca10.org/franzenlibrary/home</a></span>
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a modern look and feel and use responsive design. I moved to Google Sites and am happy with the decision.</div>
<div dir="ltr">- Starting with a strong site map/menu structure as the basis - I took the existing links and information on our site and the new information I wanted to add and basically created an outline/sitemap in a google doc. This helped make it clear
what the main menu items should be before actually starting to build the site. I tried to highlight the core functions of my library (at this point in time) as the main menu items, while keeping in mind the need for growth and change. I tried not to get
too hung up on this though, in the end, if I do need to modify, it won't be hard since its in Google Sites now. </div>
<div dir="ltr">- Steal from others! - As always, the librarian community has so much information. I looked at other school library websites and used them for inspiration to build something that would work specifically for my community. (Shout out to the original
creator of the Bluestem bookshelf idea, I added a Thinglink version to my website, kids saw it today and said, 'That is so cool!', so thanks!!!)</div>
<div dir="ltr">- Simplicity of content - I tried to use images, buttons, and links effectively and to be as concise as possible with blocks of text. My goal was for users to find what they need with a quick glance, I knew that too much information would make
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