{"id":446,"date":"2009-06-15T14:17:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T14:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/dls\/?p=446"},"modified":"2017-02-24T15:38:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T21:38:21","slug":"the-big-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2009\/06\/15\/the-big-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"The big reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_447\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-447\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/06\/idlhomeold.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-447  \" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/06\/idlhomeold.jpg\" alt=\"before\" width=\"280\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/06\/idlhomeold.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/06\/idlhomeold-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">before<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Welcome to the <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Iowa Digital Library home page<\/a> version 2.0! We hope you enjoy the newly redesigned site as much as we do. The old page dated all the way back to 2006, making it 21 in dog years, and virtually ancient in digital library years. Designed in response to our rapid growth since then, the new site features improved scalability and browsability, allowing quicker and easier access to our ever-increasing number of digitized artifacts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Special thanks to digital library graduate fellow\u00a0Angela Murillo for spending much of last semester contributing to the project, and also to our colleagues in the Applications &amp; Web Services department for assisting with design and functionality, to our colleagues at other institutions whose work\u00a0inspired us, and to the users who provided us with valuable feedback. Please keep the comments and suggestions coming by filling out our user survey or e-mailing us at <a href=\"mailto:thestudio@uiowa.edu\">thestudio@uiowa.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_445\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-445\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/06\/chaublog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-445\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/06\/chaublog.jpg\" alt=\"after!\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/06\/chaublog.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/06\/chaublog-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">after!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Iowa Digital Library home page version 2.0! We hope you enjoy the newly redesigned site as much as we do. The old page dated all the way back to 2006, making it 21 in dog years, and virtually ancient in digital library years. Designed in response to our rapid growth since then,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2009\/06\/15\/the-big-reveal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The big reveal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4966,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/4966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}