We’re redesigning our home page, and we want your help. Here’s our director of communications, Miyoko Chu, to tell you more:
Our web team is embarking on a new project—the redesign of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s home page. We hope you’ll join us for the ride, as many of you did when we redesigned our All About Birds site. Your comments helped shape the new All About Birds, and we’re eager to get your help again, as we build the “virtual front door” to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
It’s a daunting task when you think about it. How can we convey the breadth and depth of all we do in the space of a few web pages—and inspire members, friends, and bird watchers across the hemisphere to take part? We want to share our excitement about the Cornell Lab’s far-reaching work in research, conservation, education, and citizen science—and how we’re making a difference for birds and for people in communities across the hemisphere, thanks to your involvement and support.
But that’s our goal. How about yours? What do you expect to see on a top-notch nonprofit website? What inspires you to keep going back? We hope you’ll share your opinions and point us to your favorite sections or features of other institutional websites.
We hope too, that you’ll share your opinions about the future of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s home page in particular. What would you like to see at birds.cornell.edu?
We welcome your thoughts. Please comment below and/or take a few moments to answer our online survey. Thanks for helping us kick off the planning and vision for the Cornell Lab’s new home page!
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10 Comments
The graphics you used on this page are so delightful. And you might make up cards to sell as a fund raiser.. Clean, fresh, and utterly charming.
Please keep the site as easy to use as possible. When items are hidden in sub-menus, it will turn off many, including me. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. And, keep your “search engine” at a top priority level.
Jay, thanks very much for your suggestions. I hear what you’re saying about the effectiveness of simplicity and the importance of the search engine. At the moment, we are considering a top navigational design that is similar to http://www.allaboutbirds.org. Do the top navigation and associated menus work for you on that site?
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW
It’s the must beautiful site that I never saw before
Really, it’s fantastic one
I like it very much ^_^
It would be great to have a link to “share” items on our Face Book accounts. That would also get your word spread further.
Love what you are doing.
I really like the idea mentioned above about cards. Don’t know what the writer had in mind, but I just saved the enclosed card of the killdeer from the recent mailing. Cooks have recipe cards. And birders have — BIRD Cards! There could be a new one every week for download!
I think birds are pretty.
Would love to see a quick link to a bird song library. For instance, I am about to release a rehabbed saw whet owl and am looking for a sound file of its call. If it stays around, I would love to know how to spot it by sound. For instance I know I have barred owls around here all the time as I hear them on a regular basis. Thanks.
I was disasppointed to see that I could find no informatiopn on any birds I observed in Europe. I have been able to list all my observations in Central and South America as well as Mexico but there is absolutely nothing on other areas of the world?
My wife and are birders and do a lot of travel. We look at a lot of Websites in many fields and to put it simply yours is great. Better than 98% of them. Keep up the good work it makes a great difference.
Jeff & Judy Webster
Rural Harmony, MN
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