Easy Webtech
- 1. Easy Webtech Devin Burritt, MLIS Assistant Director/Head of Youth Services Wells Public Library
- 2. Goals ● Have a greater understanding of some common tools that can be used in your website ● Learn how to embed a frame into your website and make small alterations to size, color, borders, and margins if necessary
- 3. Pictures ● Flickr(Yahoo) ● Picassa(Google) ● PhotoBucket
- 4. Potential Use for Pictures ● Marketing and publicity of events integrated into your website postings without having to link to a separate page or taking up massive chunks of real estate ● Book displays
- 5. Videos ● Youtube ● Vimeo ● Jing(Screen Capture Videos)
- 6. Potential Uses for Videos ● Create and share videos from events for publicity ● Share relevant videos on your webpage ● Share relevant videos on your blog ● Create tutorials for computer instructions such as how to search for a book on the catalog and integrate the video with text
- 7. Gui Form Creators ● E-mail Me Forms ● Google Documents Form
- 8. Gui Form Creator Uses ● Ill's ● Meeting Room Reservations ● Summer Reading Club Signup ● Book Review Submissions ● Sign Up for Library Cards ● Event Registration ● Surveys
- 9. OPAC ● Specific to ILS ● Millennium Code(replace the IP with your OPAC IP): <form action="http://205.201.213.234/search/X"; name="mainwebcatalog"> <select name="searchtype"> <option value="X">Keyword</option> <option value="t">Title</option> <option value="a">Author</option> <option value="d">Subject</option> </select> <input name="searcharg" type="text" size="25" title="Enter your search query." /> <input class="searchBtn" name="submit" type="submit"value="Search" /> <br /><a href="http://205.201.213.234/search/X" title="External link" target="_blank">more search options</a> </form>
- 10. Online Reference Transactions ● Meebo ○ Trouble with chat from the same IP, but good for those who are away.
- 11. Online Calendar ● Google Calendar
- 12. Potential Uses ● Lists upcoming events ● Track meeting room usage
- 13. Creating a Mobile Site ● Google Sites
- 14. Modifying and Inserting Gadgets/Widgets ● Make sure you are in html view ● No need to understand code, use ctrl+f to find what you are looking for ● If code does not fit in your page or looks wonky, search for width= and heigth= and change the corresponding number values until you get something that fits ● Background colors need changed? Search for RGB= and then find the hex code for the color you would like ○ http://www.javascripter.net/faq/rgbtohex.htm ○ http://download.cnet.com/ColorPic/3001-2191_4- 10123495.html? spi=4619629a04cfb2d1ebec413b647845f4
- 15. Summation ● There are a lot of free tools out there that integrate into an existing website without having to pay a vendor to come in and create it for you.
- 16. Questions? ● Questions? ● Any resources I missed that you use and love?