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Minutes - 28 April 2004

Present: Hennig (minutes), Duke, Edelman

1. Usability test results

Due to timing constraints, we ended up testing only 6 of the 10 people we wanted to test. We decided this was enough for now, since we got valuable data. We will test a few more people after the page is coded and clickable.

All but one of the students tested liked the new page very much and succesfully used it to find information. We did notice some things that need tweaking. See our written results for details.

Action items:

- Nicole will contact Hecht Designs with any changes needed.
- Darcy will run the test on her mom, just to get the impressions of one more totally "new" user.
- At our next meeting we will brainstorm more ideas related to the two biggest changes we want to make (name of the second drop-down menu, and the possible re-naming of two top-level categories)
- At our next meeting we will discuss ideas for a brown bag lunch for staff to discuss how to use the new home page to market our services more effectively.

 

2. Hiding email addresses to thwart spammers

It was agreed that we would update our Staff Directory pages, which list the email address of every staff member, to remove the "@mit.edu" from each user name and just show it at the top of the column. This would make it a bit less easy for spam-bots to harvest email addresses from those pages.

 

3. Preparing Tip of the Week, Feature Service, Hot Topics

Darcy made templates for these new pages and will contact appropriate web authors on our staff to write content for these in time for the release of the new home page. We'll review them at a future meeting.

Next meeting:

Wednesday, May 5, 2-3:30, Barker Conference Room

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