Posted in Library Systems, Usability on May 30th, 2004 No Comments »
DOCTYPE Dilemmas
Haven't got a clue what a DOCTYPE is or not sure is yours is right? Then you need to check out, Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE! by Jeffrey Zeldman. This article discusses what a DOCTYPE is and why if your (X)HTML page has an incorrect or missing DOCTYPE your pages might not [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on May 30th, 2004 No Comments »
So I survived the SUNYLA conference! Three presentations in three days, plus coordinating the technology needs of the conference. Whew, I am exhausted and happily enjoying my Memorial Day weekend off. The laptop email stations were a big hit, which was awesome. There were a few glitches (like a virus on the computers), but overall it was great. [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on May 27th, 2004 No Comments »
SUNY Librarian's Association Conference
SUNY Cortland (where I work) has been hosting the SUNY Librarian's Association Conference this week. Tomorrow is the last day of the conference and it has been a blast. The only downside I can say about the whole experience is that I am exhausted. Volunteering to be the Technology Coordinator, and presenting [...]
Posted in RSS, Usability on May 22nd, 2004 No Comments »
Sometime last week I discovered this interesting post over at mezzoblue from November of 2003, entitled “Plugging the RSS Usability Hole“. This post discusses just how useful the little orange XML button is to our users and if we need to think about what our users do when they see it. Particularly the non-techie users. [...]
Posted in Blogging on May 22nd, 2004 No Comments »
Resumes are for Dummies.
A perfect article to add to my collection of “How Blogs Can Help Your Career” files, from Brenda Sandburg:
“Forget want ads and recruiters. Bruce MacEwen has a new approach to job hunting: blogging.”
“My motive is to increase my visibility among people interested in the management of big firms,” said [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on May 16th, 2004 No Comments »
Colour Schemes. A designer's 'style' is made up of a number of different factors, though colour plays a large role. Everyone has their own method of coming up with a good colour scheme, which will inevitably affect the results. Technical A 'technical'… [mezzoblue]
This is a very nice article at mezzoblue that discusses creating color schemes [...]
Posted in CSS on May 15th, 2004 No Comments »
An Objective Look at Table Based vs. CSS Based Design
This is a good article that discusses the differences between table-based and CSS-based design. It provides a great overview of the pros and cons of using one type of design or the other. The author describes why many web designers aren't using CSS based design yet. [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on May 13th, 2004 No Comments »
Save the Whales…and LISNews.
LISnews, has been a staple in the library weblog community since 1999. It has been the driving force behind many library weblogs (mine included) which, without the support and continuous work of Blake, probably would have ceased by now. My point: Blake Carver is one of the driving forces behind the [...]
Posted in Ongoing Projects on May 13th, 2004 No Comments »
So the last three weeks have been rather busy. I have to give three presentations in a little less than two weeks, which means that I have been coding like crazy. First, I have pages to finish coding and testing that I am going to show as part of my presentations. I am working on [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on May 11th, 2004 No Comments »
Michael Stephens' post “10 Things A Library Can Do to Boost their Techie Stuff: Without Breaking the Bank” at Tame the Web has some fabulous tips of how your library can implement and make the most of new technologies. There are some real gems here for smaller libraries.
One of the best suggestions in Michael's post is to [...]
