Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 24th, 2004 No Comments »
I just wanted to say after today's flurry of posts that I am sane. It's just that I am catching up on my reading while sitting at the reference desk wishing I were outside digging in my garden (finally, it stopped raining here). I have logged three hours of Saturday reference seeing only one person [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 24th, 2004 No Comments »
What Web Standards Has Taught Me For one thing, web standards has taught me that it is important to keep everyone in mind. Web standards teaches us to follow a set guideline to achieve the best results. If you adhere to those guidelines, you please the majority of the people that view your website. [CSS [...]
Posted in CSS, Usability on Jul 24th, 2004 No Comments »
Print Stylesheets and User Expectations
There is a great post over at Man in Blue about how the behavior created by print stylesheets confound users. The basic idea is that user expect when they print to get the what they are seeing on the screen and when they don't they are puzzled. So there are suggestions [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 24th, 2004 No Comments »
Infolit weblog Just came across a nice infolit blog at http://k-stateinfolit.blogspot.com/ which is K-State InfoLit (Kansas State University), which started up in June. “Keep updated about efforts at Kansas State University to ensure we produce graduates that are information literate and ensure that our faculty and staff are too.” (OK, I came across it because [...]
Posted in Blogging, XML on Jul 24th, 2004 No Comments »
An XML-based Blogging tool So I have spent most of this summer working with a consultant developing an XML-based blogging tool for our library. The project is nearing completion and I can't express my joy in words. I would have to say that this was one of the more difficult projects I have decided to [...]
