Here begins a blog for MLIS 7500, Computer Applications for Information Professionals. The primary goal of this work is to examine tools, resources, guidelines, and standards for web usability and how they apply to academic library websites. Topics discussed may reflect a wider range of topics related to web design and academic library websites.
Wow! I agonized for weeks over a name for this blog.
I contemplated to no end puns and the like that I might incorporate into some clever title -- something that might give it a little character. I never did come up with one, but this works.
Titles considered:
Heavy Meta -- If I was only taking a topic more cataloging-oriented! It's definitely fitting, for me.
URLs and Purls -- I've been doing a lot of knitting lately, but URLs didn't seem quite relevant enough to the topic.
Meta Head -- I could have made it work. They're both HTML tags, after all, but that's a bit too technical to reflect the intended subject matter.
Embracing usability?
I got too technical again, but I went with it. I was thinking of the curled braces used in CSS.
