Over the past few months I have had the privilege to create a new website, https://mppl.org in collaboration with the great people at WebLinx. This was a long project, with as much lead time meeting with internal stakeholders, designers, and looking at our research data. What parts of our old website should go, which should stay? In the end it was easier to let things go, we knew from our stats what pages were never visited, and what links were never clicked. We weeded our website from over 200 pages down to just about 80. Then recategorised everything to find the best fit for it, and this was before we even hired WebLinx or wrote a single line of code. Once we had all of our prep work done it was time to make a design we did a lot of internal design tests, but ultimately decided to let WebLinx create a design that fit our branding. Meeting after meeting we narrowed down the different choices until finally we had one that we felt represented us as a library. Now it was time to turn those drawings into a working website. At this point in the project, most of the library group went silent, it was just WebLinx and me, I provided them the code to our API’s and custom functions, they developed the PHP, HTML, CSS to make our new WordPress site work how we had envisioned. When the process finished and we had our new website, it had been almost a year since we had first started our prep work, but now we could finally unveil it to our patrons, and overall the response was great.