New Jersey

• Visual appeal- bar on top, trapezoid with headings, site search box, BIG margins

• Link in text plus purple blob link

• A lot information well conveyed

• News feed is dynamic– 10 newspaper stories rotate through

• Logos for catalog, Center for Book, Find Library, across bottom

New Jersey

• Good use of white space and margins

• Second level for sidebar with links

• Third level for docs (statistics, e.g.), hover menus from sidebar visible from the second level

North Carolina

North Carolina

• Wide margins

• Slide show center, six pictures and message (connect, collect, empower, etc.)

• 2 sentence mission

• Link for state librarian welcome

• Service list, left; news on right

• Logos for links at bottom

NC, second level

• Page shows link for Services to libraries

• Links on left, Services by division

Third level, Library Devt

• Links for information, files, docs

• Related links for every page on left

• Looks like heavy duty programming challenge

Illinois

Illinois CyberDriveIllinois

• Secretary of State/State Librarian site

• Big blue margins all around

• Left column is static picture and info

• Center for who, what we have, what we do, what’s new

• Search box, center bottom

• Right column for calendar, enews, other

Illinois Library Development

• Illinois big WebJunction presence

• Keeps information for librarians off the state portal

Georgia Public Lib Service

Georgia Public Libraries

• Very text oriented

• Nice tabs on left for Public, Kids, Libraries, Trustees

• Much narrower focus than most State Library websites

Vermont

Vermont

• Banner with book

• Text driven, goes to all edges of page

• News on right

• Long mission

• Search box in upper right is good

• No dynamic elements

• Need to scroll down to see full page

Tab for general users

• Vermont.gov information

• Vermont Library directory?

• Databases (on left in column)

• No marketing of VT libraries

• All sites taken from favorite webpages on http://vtdolweb.wetpaint.com/

• All viewed June 29, 2009