Redesign Help?

[John Creech <John dot Creech at cwu dot EDU>]

Hi.  I need your expert counsel here and find it daunting to throw this to 
the list.  I'd hoped that III would help on this but was told that they'd 
only help if things broke upon implementation.  In May I did a thorough 
redesign of our III Webpac and finally got it up to HTML4 speed with calls 
to style sheets.  See:

http://library.cwu.edu:2082/search/

When I started this in May I browsed alot of Webpacs and settled on the 
Uni. of Washington's design--hey, we work with them in a consortial 
setting; they're right down the road 120 mi., etc.  After a few days of 
attempting to reverse engineer their work I spoke with Mark Kibbey, Head, 
Integrated Library Systems, who was kind and gracious enough to share 
files and etc. with me.

My question, that which makes me fret and lose sleep, concerns my new 
wwwoptions file.  I have tried to make sure that my current wwwoptions 
file on live server port has all elements in my new wwwoptions file at

http://library.cwu.edu:2082/screens/wwwoptions

I essentialy reverse engineered the UW wwwoptions file, tried to make sure 
I had my current elements from my live server port included, and now have 
fingers and paws crossed.  File isn't visually well organized by 
"sub-categories" if you will - like global settings in a group, Innreach 
settings in a group, etc.  But I *think* things are working.

To those who are sooo much better at this than I and who are willing to 
look under the hood - am I doing or not doing something that is going to 
break or otherwise get me into trouble, either w/ my wwwoptions or 
anything else I might've missed?

I'm cold on this as I wasn't able to bring it up in early summer as I'd 
hoped and am now scrambling to bring up other redesigned and/or new Web 
services by start of Fall Quarter...so I'm jumping back to III stuff after 
months away...and know just enuf to be dangerous.  Thanks so much for any 
and all suggestions, observations, comments!!

John Creech
Systems Librarian
Central Washington University Library 
400 E. University Way | Ellensburg, WA 98926 | 
office - 509.963.1081 || fax - 509.963.3684