jechols
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3 months ago I'm going to beat this dead horse yet again: we should not standardize our sites beyond very minimal branding. We should make it clear users are on a different application. We should push back against anybody suggesting we standardize vendor sites. We should push back hard and repeatedly.
Making vendor sites look like our main properties is confusing to users and extremely costly to us. Even making in-house sites look like our Drupal site has proven very difficult, and we often have a lot more control there than vendor sites. Long-term costs are routinely overlooked, but when Cosmic (the UO Drupal theme) changes, having to modify half a dozen vendors in ways that are specific to those vendors, and then modify half a dozen local sites on a variety of stacks... it just isn't sustainable.
So while a footer in itself doesn't seem like a big lift, the more things we do, small as they all seem, the more time we spend maintaining all the little pieces.
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MargaretA-UO
As we update the public website, I understand there is a desire for all associated sites to adapt their look and feel to align more closely with the main web site. One thing we haven't done yet which might be a fairly gentle lift is to add a footer to Primo that echoes libweb. This is not urgent, and maybe we want to wait until the New Discovery Experience next year, but wanted to get it on the list. Here's a doc someone wrote up about how to do this, although I'm sure it's more basic than you actually need. Maybe I'll try it myself!
At some point. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RZTD9V8m4bHvLTl10pyFY0XbVJ6tgmsD/edit#heading=h.gjdgxs Thanks. Margaret