Posts tagged: books

One of the things that we invariably do first with a new client or prospect, is to take a look at their existing web presence (assuming there is one) and use that as a basis for working out what we could do with it. What we generally tend to find is that there’s commonly some kind of corporate site, which may either have specific sections or sub-sites for things like events and forums. Journals, books and other content types are typically stored as separate websites and, depending on the existing supplier, each journal may be hosted as a separate site. If blogs are involved, each of them will usually be hosted separately. There’s also likely to be a division between elibrary sites and ecommerce sites, with the former offering institutional subscription access to online content and the latter offering print sales to end users. Typically most of these sites will be hosted with different platforms, different URLs and have different designs. Continue reading →