Check out the new McGill Universities Health Centre Libraries website! A fresh new design launched earlier this year.
http://www.muhclibraries.ca and http://www.bibliothequescusm.ca
The image below shows the earlier site on the left and the newer one on the right, with a more modern, clean look (click to enlarge).
Andornot has hosted MUHC Libraries' books and journals catalogues for many years, as part of our managed hosting service. Both catalogues are stored within an Inmagic Genie system, with a search interface built from the Andornot Starter Kit. Google book covers appear for many records, and the interface is available in both English and French.
In the new site template, the option to search the books and journals catalogues is provided on every page in a band across the middle, along with searches for PubMed, the McGill University Library catalogue, and MUHC's e-journal subscriptions.
For this project, Andornot updated the layout and design of the hosted books and journals catalogues to match the new MUHC Libraries website and co-ordinated with MUHC Library staff so both their new site and the updated catalogue launched at the same time.
Contact us for updates to your catalogue or for help with a redesign of your website or search interface.
The AABC website has re-launched with a new design in honour of Archives Week 2011 and the second anniversary of Memorybc.ca. This project was made possible through NADP funding from Heritage Canada, Library & Archives Canada, and the Canadian Council of Archives. Through an RFP process, the AABC executive selected Andornot to design the new site and migrate the current content.
As part of the mandate of the project, the design incorporates elements of the Memory BC look and feel, with the use of the same header image and colors. The AABC logo was also updated to a more modern style. The structure of the site was re-organized to group pages under 5 main headings and all the content was migrated and reformatted. Older newsletters were converted into PDF’s rather than trying to retain over 900 HTML pages and images.
Old site | |
New Site |
Behind the scenes the site uses the open source Umbraco content management system and is hosted by Andornot. Individual members of the executive and volunteers now have rights to edit specific sections or pages, and to upload documents into a Media Library. The WYSIWYG content editor allows them to easily type in content, or to copy and paste from other programs. No knowledge of HTML is required as stylesheets control the formatting.
The home page is now automatically populated by recent entries from a news blog with an RSS feed. The same approach has been used for positions listed on the Job Board. Umbraco offers a Publish /Unpublish date feature so jobs can automatically be set to disappear after the closing date.
Redesigning and migrating a site with so much content created over many years presented some challenges, and we are very grateful for the responsiveness of the AABC executive to our suggestions and recommendations.
“Our site needed updating for many years. The new site is much more user-friendly and is very easy to edit. Information is easier to find for our members and users, and will allow more control and diverse functionality for the AABC executive and contractors. We really like our new logo and how much the overall look and feel matches MemoryBC.ca. Andornot’s knowledge of the BC archival community helped to make this project run smoothly.” Jane Morrison, AABC President.
Please contact Andornot for more information.
The www.andornot.com website has a new search feature: http://www.andornot.com/search. Check it out! There are some very useful indexes there, and I found myself using them even before I'd finished this project! The Andornot site is there, of course, but also the Inmagic site, Inmagic technical documentation, the Inmagic knowledgebase, Inmagic user forums, and Andornot's Furl link archive (our public bookmark repository for bookmarks we use all the time). We'll add more indexes if and when we think of them. It's just so good to have all that information searchable in one place. I used the dtSearch .NET API to construct a DtSearchHandler class that we can re-use elsewhere. Ted is going to use it for an upcoming project and I'm sure he can improve upon what I did. The whole experience was just a pleasure: I'm always impressed with dtSearch whenever I work with it, and creating this search feature really didn't take long. Next up is some advanced search features, and a way to move through highlighted hits in the cached version of the search result. Whee!
I started to use Microsoft Visio and I just love it. This
article shows why. Visio really makes it easy to create storyboards or wireframes as well as helping visualize what we want to design for our clients. The process can be really fun but it can also get a little addictive.
