5000 resources to do just about anything online I love mashable and I can’t possibly summarize everything in this article, but if you are looking for new things to do with your blog/website, or just to have a little fun on the ‘net, do take a look. You can find things such as 30 widgets for a wordpress blog, 70+ podcasting tools, 12+ twitter tools, ...
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Mini presentation on Web 2.0 technologies
Like | robin | Aug 21, 2007 | Design, Libraries, my projects, networking, publishing, Scripting, semantic web, social media, software, Training, web 2.0+, XHTML/XML/CSS
Overview What we are doing IM External (Chat Ref) Internal (Serials, Ref) Blogs Del.icio.us The cataloging del.icio.us page has been up for about a month. We have 7 users linked to this page and we will be in a list of libraries using del.icio.us in Library Journal http://del.icio.us/url/db7b6b3059612ca00876d4a393f3747c Wikis External (FAQs) Internal (Reference, Serials Cataloging) Looking to the future Higher profile web presence Being where ...
what is MARC? a video
Like | robin | Aug 19, 2007 | Libraries, metadata, my projects, software, Training, watch.see.hear
For a little workshop/presentation thing… This video is a little hard to see at youtube but it hopefully shows the connection between MARC and records in OCLC, Voyager, Google books, and more.
creating a e-zine — software choices
Like | robin | Aug 13, 2007 | CMS, Design, my projects, opensource, publishing, software, Training, webdesign, XHTML/XML/CSS
So you want to create an online newsletter, a magazine or e-zine? What should you use?There are many choices, some of which depend on budget size. My budget size= ZERO dollars.My investigation actually began in May with Drupal. These were reviewed as of August 2007. System requirements for most of these (but not all): Apache or IIS server; MySQL or another db server; PHP ; ...
creating a e-zine — lessons learned to date
Like | robin | Aug 12, 2007 | CMS, my art, my projects, opensource, publishing, software, webdesign, XHTML/XML/CSS
1. Have a vision.Check. I had that one a year ago (a regional arts magazine with topics both about art and by artists) 2. Funding.The amount of $ you have to spend will affect everything else 3. Hosting? Find a place to host it.I used some extra webspace I have. 4. A software list of features that you need (and a list of those you ...
MS Expression vs. Dreamweaver
Like | robin | Feb 3, 2007 | Design, software, tools/tips, webdesign, XHTML/XML/CSS
This is a little bit old but still a good short overview of the new MS Expression Web Designer (think a much improved version of FrontPage):http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?p=107
more fun on the web… (open source….)
Like | robin | Nov 30, 2006 | opensource, software
I love alot of the new opensource stuff: check out GIMP instead Photoshop or Fireworkshttp://www.gimp.org/check out NVU instead of Dreamweaver, Frontpage,etc.http://www.nvu.com/index.phpcheck out camstudio instead of camtasia.http://www.camstudio.org/
CMS for bloggers
Like | robin | Sep 19, 2006 | CMS, Design, opensource, software, web 2.0+, webdesign, XHTML/XML/CSS
So, I’m still investigating a CMS (Content Management System) for the libraries web editors. A CMS is just a easy way to get content onto the web, without having to do much in the way of design. Blogger in some senses is a very primitive (primitive because it is limited in what it can do) CMS. Unfortunately, my quick and informal survey of web editors ...