Posted in Standards, Web Design/HTML on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has long been the place to go for standards dealing with the web. The problem has been . . . well . . . that the site has always looked . . . old.
They now have a beta for their new site:
So much easier to use and cleaner!
[from W3C [...]
Posted in Digital Libraries, Research, Software, Web Design/HTML on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Research being done in Europe hopes to create KEEP – Keeping Emulation Environments Portable. The goal is to create a universal emulator that can open and play obsolete formats from the 1970s on. Although we normally think of digital documents, this emulator hopes to also allow people to work with multimedia files and games.
[BBC]
Posted in Internet, Software, Trends, Web Design/HTML, XML on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I couldn’t resist this one, even with #10 staring at me. Roy Tennant has pulled together the top ten traits for any techies today. If you’re looking to get into or stay in this field, I’d say he’s hit the nail on the head!
The ability to speak simply and directly about technical topics, either without [...]
Posted in Catalogs, Searching, Software, Trends, Web Design/HTML on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When the North Carolina State University Libraries integrated their library catalog into their website, I was excited. Why do we move our patrons to a different interface just to search our collections?
Now, other libraries are following suit and, thanks to Roy Tennant, I’ve seen the cleanest implementation yet at Villanova University. Only four tabs in the [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Browsers, Handhelds, Standards, Web Design/HTML on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The World Wide Web Consortium has announced a recommendation that will help us create web pages for mobile devices — Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0.
It includes a list of 60 best practices, which are provided at the beginning of the document and discussed further into the document. A definite good read!
[from beSpacific]
Posted in Browsers, Standards, Web Design/HTML on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
XHTML Basic has been updated to version 1.1. From the W3C website:
The XHTML Basic document type includes the minimal set of modules required to be an XHTML host language document type, and in addition it includes images, forms, basic tables, and object support. It is designed for Web clients that do not support the full set of XHTML features; for example, [...]
Posted in Standards, Web Design/HTML on November 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When creating web pages, most of us are stuck with the few, basic fonts that are used across most operating systems. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able to tap into the exact font we want — regardless of what is installed on our users’ computers? It’s possible.
Cascading Style Sheets version 3 has a property [...]
Posted in Blogs/RSS, Money, Web 2.0, Web Design/HTML on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Engagedpatrons.org was created for public libraries to add functionality to their websites that will encourage community interaction. Each service is meant to be easily added to your website – no programming necessary. Currently, they are offering:
Library Events — also includes searching, online registration, email alerts for patrons, RSS feeds
Library Blogs — basic blog functionality, but [...]
Posted in Blogs/RSS, Web 2.0, Web Design/HTML on April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Cheat Sheet Cheat Sheet: Everthing from HTML and CSS to MySQL and Perl to Blogger and WordPress to general web technology. Definitely worth a look.
[from TechEssence.info]
Posted in Standards, Web Design/HTML on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The first draft of HTML version 5 is now available. This is a working draft and is probably a long way from true implementation. However, it does give us an idea of where HTML is headed. There is also a document which defines the differences between versions 4 and 5. It is an excellent document [...]
