Crash course in Web design for libraries

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Auteur:

Rubenstein, Charles P.

Informations de publication:

Westport, CT : Libraries Unlimited, 2006.

Format de document:

Livres

Série:

Crash course

Description matérielle:

xx, 196 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Terme de vedette-matière:

Library Web sites -- Design -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Web sites -- Design -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN):

9781591583660

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This stand alone workbook is intended for individuals with an interest in developing professional-looking websites without having to learn HTML language. Using a typical Microsoft Windows environment with cut and paste templates and examples, the book helps users learn and understand some of the benefits and limitations of commercially available software. It will be a handy reference for busy librarians who need to refresh their memories when they make additions, deletions, or add new material to their websites. It may also be used as a handout when presenting a workshop on Web design.

If your library has little, if any, technical support, and you have little, if any programming background, this stand-alone workbook will help you create a simple yet professional-looking website. Using a typical Microsoft Windows environment with cut and paste templates and examples, you will learn to understand some of the benefits and limitations of using commercially available software tools. (http://www.redroselibrary.com/)

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"Rubenstein, a professor at the Pratt Institute's Graduate School of Information and Library Science, has put together a book that is intended to be a user-friendly workbook for individuals who have no programming background but have an interest in the rapid development of professional looking Web sites. Instead of gathering examples from other libraries, he created mythical Red Rose Library. Each chapter takes the reader through the process of developing Red Rose's Web pages, from the basics of HTML to adding images, links, and forms. Numerous screen shots provide visual assistance. Although most of the instructions are fairly easy to follow, some elements of the design process are not for the faint of heart, and the author suggests getting help from a computer professional or a high-school student. A demonstration Web site is at http://www.redroselibrary.com."--"Dawson, Jennifer" Copyright 2007 Booklist

Table des matières

List of Illustrations	p. xiii
Preface	p. xvii
Chapter 1 Quick Start in Web Design	p. 1
Setting up a Web Site Shell Directory	p. 2
Creating a Web Site	p. 3
Using Microsoft's Word to Create Easy Web Pages	p. 5
About File Sizes (Bytes)	p. 5
HTML Page Structure	p. 7
Using the HTML, Title, and Body Tags	p. 7
Creating a Red Rose Newsletter Web Page	p. 10
Adding the Preformat Tag	p. 10
Adding the Paragraph Tag	p. 11
Adding Center, Bold, and Underline Tags	p. 13
Adding the Image Tag	p. 14
Creating Structure with Table Tags	p. 14
Recap of HTML Elements Used in Chapter 1	p. 17
What's Next?	p. 17
Chapter 2 Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)	p. 19
File-Naming Conventions	p. 20
Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)	p. 20
Web Browsers	p. 21
Saving a Web Page from the Internet	p. 24
Web Site Design	p. 25
About Browsers and HTML Standards	p. 27
Document Type Definitions (DTD)	p. 27
Top Ten Library Home Page Links	p. 28
1 Location and Hours of Operation	p. 30
2 Library Staff and Board of Trustees Contact Information	p. 30
3 Calendar of Events (Keep It Current!)	p. 30
4 Your Library Newsletter	p. 30
5 History of Your Library	p. 31
6 List of Departments	p. 31
7 Friends of the Library	p. 31
8 Trips and Special Programs	p. 31
9 FAQs	p. 31
10 Webmaster Contact Information and Copyright	p. 32
Web Page Graphics	p. 32
What's Next?	p. 33
Chapter 3 The HTML Document and Header Information	p. 35
HTML Tags, Elements, and Attributes	p. 36
Well-Formed Markup Tags	p. 37
Basic HTML File Structure	p. 38
HTML Elements and Their Attributes	p. 40
HTML Head Section	p. 40
Document Header Information	p. 41
Document Title Element	p. 41
Your Web Site's Base URL	p. 42
Default Fonts for Your Page	p. 43
Defining Color Values	p. 43
Describing Your Page with Metadata	p. 44
Telling Search Engines "Don't Index This Page"	p. 45
Setting a Freshness Date for Your Page	p. 46
Don't Cache-Get Me the Latest Page	p. 46
Redirecting Your Patrons to a New Web Site	p. 46
Adding an ISBN	p. 47
Your Page's Relationships to Other Documents	p. 47
What's Next?	p. 47
Chapter 4 Displaying Text in Your HTML Document	p. 49
Using Comments	p. 50
The Body of Your HTML Document	p. 51
Document Heading and Block Formatting Elements	p. 55
Forcing Line Breaks	p. 56
Making Text into Paragraphs	p. 57
Horizontal Rules	p. 57
Centering Text	p. 59
Using the Preformat Element for Easy Text Display	p. 59
Representing Quoted Text as a Block	p. 60
Character Formatting	p. 61
Displaying Text in Boldface	p. 62
Italics	p. 62
Changing Font Typefaces	p. 63
It's All About the Fonts	p. 64
Using Multiple Attributes in a Font Tag	p. 67
Special Characters (Entities)	p. 68
Text Format Tricks Enhance Your Web Page	p. 69
What's Next?	p. 70
Chapter 5 Images and Linking to Other Web Pages	p. 71
Graphics and Copyright	p. 71
Clip Art Collections	p. 72
Subscription and Fee-Based, Royalty-Free Clip Art	p. 73
Graphic File Types	p. 76
Lossy and Lossless Image Compression	p. 76
Spicing up Your Web Page with Clip Art	p. 76
Relative and Absolute File Addresses	p. 77
Missing Images and the alt Attribute	p. 78
Sizing Your Images and Multiplying Them	p. 79
Boxing in Your Images	p. 81
Adding White Space Around Your Images	p. 82
Aligning Your Images and Text	p. 83
Hyperlinking: Locally, Globally, and Internally	p. 84
Hypertext and Hypergraphics: Linking to Images and Other Web Pages	p. 84
Relative Links Within a Web Page: The Name Attribute	p. 88
Opening a New Browser Window	p. 88
Adding Your E-mail Address to Your Web Page	p. 89
What's Next?	p. 89
Chapter 6 div, span, Style Sheets, and Floating Images	p. 91
The div and span Elements	p. 92
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)	p. 93
Adding Inline Style Attributes to HTML Elements	p. 93
Using Border Attributes with Horizontal Rules	p. 94
Internal or Embedded Cascading Style Sheets	p. 96
Adding Style-One Page at a Time	p. 97
Changing Multiple Defaults with Style on a Single Page	p. 98
Defining Style Within Elements Using Classes	p. 100
Fully Defined Element Class Method	p. 100
Generic Class Method	p. 101
Other Class Acts	p. 102
Using External Style Sheet Files	p. 103
Updating Our Red Rose Library Home Page	p. 104
Styling Paragraph Indents and Margins	p. 107
Background Images	p. 108
Image Borders	p. 110
Text Boxes and Borders	p. 111
Dropped Caps	p. 112
Floating Images for Newsletter Designs	p. 114
Additional CSS Resources	p. 115
What's Next?	p. 116
Chapter 7 Lists, Lists, and More Lists	p. 117
Three Basic Lists	p. 117
Unordered Lists	p. 118
The List Item	p. 118
Ordered Lists	p. 119
Nesting Lists	p. 120
Definition Lists	p. 123
Creating Lists with Style	p. 125
What's Next?	p. 128
Chapter 8 Tables and Their Creative Uses	p. 129
Building a Table	p. 129
Designing a Calendar	p. 134
Adding Table Captions and Headings	p. 135
Spanning Table Rows and Columns	p. 137
Applying Tables to Red Rose Library Web Pages	p. 139
Using Cascading Style Sheets to Create Tables	p. 143
Style Sheet Table Element Equivalents	p. 144
What's Next?	p. 147
Chapter 9 Forms for Patron Interactivity	p. 149
Creating Web Forms	p. 150
The Form Element	p. 150
The Input Element	p. 151
The Select Element	p. 152
The Textarea Element	p. 154
Adding Color to a Textarea Box Form	p. 155
Action Button Types	p. 156
Server-Side Processing: Making Forms Work with CGI	p. 157
How the CGI Can Work for You	p. 157
Online Surveys	p. 159
Forms Processing Using Simple E-mail Techniques	p. 160
Making It Work with JavaScript: Client-Side Processing	p. 163
Using Forms Graphics in Calendar Pages	p. 164
Sudoku Anyone?	p. 166
What's Next?	p. 166
Chapter 10 Web Page Navigation, Image Mapping, Marquees, and Transitions	p. 169
Web Page Navigation Techniques	p. 170
Image Maps	p. 173
Image Map Area Attributes	p. 174
Adding Navigation to the Red Rose Library Page	p. 178
Marquees	p. 181
Web Page Transitions Using http-equiv Attributes	p. 182
Using http-equiv="refresh"	p. 182
Section 508	p. 183
We Covered a Lot of Things, but Not Everything	p. 184
Index	p. 185

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