Donna,
It was changed when they reorganized the web pages to add the advanced
search capability. They added a Simple Search link, an Advanced Search
link, and probably thought it made sense to group the Browse New Books,
Browse By Author, and Browse By Category links together and put it on a
separate page, not realizing that they were causing volunteers to have to
go
through two steps instead of one to get to one of the most used links on
the site.
From other things they did, I'd guess that whoever made the changes was
under pressure to get it out based on a very heavy workload, and he/she
cut
corners by not looking it over one more time before updating the site and
didn't ask for feedback. Of course, that's only my guess, but something
has
to explain why you'd put the Simple Search field twice on the Simple
Search
page and put the Simple Search, Advanced Search, and Browse Books links
twice in a row on other pages. All that happened at the same time.
Hopefully Gustavo/Engineering can find the time to clean the site up a
bit.
We know they're just sitting around twiddling their thumbs when they're
not
reading the bestsellers that Carrie's scanning, right? <Smile> Actually
if
volunteers haven't noticed, Gustavo does a lot of the approvals at night
or
on weekends because of all the other things he has to do at the office.
Either that or he's got a delay built into notifications to make us think
he's overworked and doing approvals when he should be relaxing. <Smile>
Of
course, spending the afternoon at the golf course could explain having to
do
approvals at night, too. <Smile>
HTH
Gerald
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Donna Goodin
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 10:03 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: browsing books
Hi Gerald,
I'm just curious - do you know why it was taken off in the first place?
Take care,
Donna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Hovas" <geraldhovas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 7:06 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: browsing books
It's not exactly what we had before they changed it when they added the
advanced search capability , but it's better. We'll try to get Bookshare
to
put it back among the links which appear on every page. Since this
change
would affect all pages instead of the two which Gustavo regularly
updates,
it may not be quite as easy, but as you can see, Gustavo is willing to do
what he can to remedy the problem.
Gerald
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Carrie Karnos
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 4:22 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: browsing books
There's a Browse New Books link on the home page now. Gerald asked for
it
to be fixed a week ago, and Gustavo promptly changed the screen. It's in
the middle section, not the right-hand section, of the home page.
Carrie
--- Donna Goodin <goodindo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone know why the Browse New Books link was removed from the
home page? Does that bug anyone else as much as it does me? It's not a
big deal, but having to go the extra Click of Browse Books then Browse
new books just seems kind of pointless and silly. I for one much
prefered it the old way.
Thanks,
Donna
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