Social networking sites are popping up like rabid bunnies.
Here's more I've discovered this week.
Glogster
Hi5
TinyPic - Photo sharing site
FotoFlexer - Free online photo editing site. Good if you can't afford Photoshop.
See this list of 100 top social networking sites: http://www.100bestsocialnetworksites.com/
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Saturday, June 06, 2009
Library Centennial Slideshow Final
A cool site is Slideshare.net that lets you upload powerpoint files and embed them into Web Pages like Youtube.
Friday, June 05, 2009
Website Redesigned
After 8 years, the Library website has finally been redesigned and updated. The old website featured a blue, green, and teal color scheme to match the Central Library's blue phase of the 1990s. In 2007/2008, the Central Library was renovated to return the original 1970s brown, green neutral colors scheme. Luckily, the City's website already featured an olive greenish scheme that matched. In 2001, a web design firm called Atomic Source was employed by the library to design our blue/green site. This newest revision was done completely inhouse with the help of our talented City IS dept. The IS dept handled the technical details and a team of five Library staff were responsible for the design and layout. As the team of five, or the Furious Five as I like to call us, has more time to develop our skils in fancy, flashy web design, we'll do our best to keep it fresh and modern looking. But it is a work in progress.
One of the challenges has been to present a huge amount of content in an attractive and engaging format. I've often been torn between presenting a slow to load, yet flashy eye-catching graphics filled page versus fast-loading plain old text page. Due to lack of expertise in Flash and fancy web design, I opted for the fast-loading plain old text in many cases. One of the things I've learned is that XHTML for content, CSS for presentation, javascript for action. I'd love to have a more interactive Children's and Teen pages, but it requires flash and javascript. I'm loathe to have too much flash and java on a page because A) it's slows down the page loading and B) technogeeks like myself like to disable java & active scripts in our Firefox browsers to avoid getting potential spyware and viruses. I like to use FireFox's No Script add-on to block those annoying pop-ups and spyware ads but it also renders many of the cool flash and scripted goodies of webpages useless. However technology rapidly changes and perhaps by then there will be a new web technology that allows for fast loading, yet flashy and interactive features.
One of the challenges has been to present a huge amount of content in an attractive and engaging format. I've often been torn between presenting a slow to load, yet flashy eye-catching graphics filled page versus fast-loading plain old text page. Due to lack of expertise in Flash and fancy web design, I opted for the fast-loading plain old text in many cases. One of the things I've learned is that XHTML for content, CSS for presentation, javascript for action. I'd love to have a more interactive Children's and Teen pages, but it requires flash and javascript. I'm loathe to have too much flash and java on a page because A) it's slows down the page loading and B) technogeeks like myself like to disable java & active scripts in our Firefox browsers to avoid getting potential spyware and viruses. I like to use FireFox's No Script add-on to block those annoying pop-ups and spyware ads but it also renders many of the cool flash and scripted goodies of webpages useless. However technology rapidly changes and perhaps by then there will be a new web technology that allows for fast loading, yet flashy and interactive features.
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