WML Tech Updates

I’ve recently made the following changes to the WML website:

• Updated the Google Scholar page, which is in the section on “How do I begin my research?”
• Added a few new images for the rotation at the top of the homepage
• Changed the font and added mention of the Jean & Alexander Heard Library at the top of every page
• Added new database information: SOCRATES (Coming soon: Plunkett Research info and updated descriptions for Business Insights and MarketResearch.com)
• Removed canceled databases: Thomson One Banker, Thomson One Analytics, D&B Key Business Ratios
• Updated the Databases by Subject page and several Research Guides
• Fixed many descriptions that needed an entity instead of a particular character
• Turned many images from pngs to jpgs for quicker page load
• Incorporated the many changes Flo suggested

Things I am still working on for the WML site:

• Redoing the login pages for proxy access
• Fixing the “page not found page” – I’ve asked Suellen if I can use their perl script
• Fixing many pictures
• Imroving search engine results
• Improving the “database of databases” to better manage subject categories of databases and research guide categories (This one is time intensive.)
• Creating a web-based interface for librarians to interact with the database easier, for updating/changing and viewing information
• Improving SQL query statements
• Impriving the CSS for print format
• Creating a BIS form
• Imrpoving functionality of existing forms
• Improving the findability of heavily used pages
• Improving the Contact Us page and make phone numbers more prominent
• Working on adding additional links for the blog page on how to subscribe to various aggregators
• Waiting for BIS PDFs and other information
• Waiting for additional content from people for 2nd level priority items (Due Friday, March 16th)
• Much, much more (but at the time of writing this, I can’t think of what those things are)