Description
Are your websites bland, outdated, or (worse yet) non-existent? Do you have to muddle through lines of HTML to keep your website up-to-date? Understanding how to create and edit web pages has always been a barrier between librarians and their desire to provide current, useful, and interesting content to patrons. Not anymore! This hands-on workshop will help you discover how quick and easy it is to make a website, course page, or blog more interactive and dynamic with easy to create widgets and gadgets. With no programming skills, little technological knowledge, and no money, you’ll be able to easily embed dynamic, reusable content in your library’s web pages. Learn how Twitter, Facebook, Del.icio.us, and other widgets can help you create a site that you’ll be proud to show your patrons. Stop editing code, and start providing dynamic content.
Start Date
17-3-2010 3:40 PM
widget_and_gadgets_handout.pdf
Widgets and Gadgets: Dynamic Tools for Dynamic Libraries
Are your websites bland, outdated, or (worse yet) non-existent? Do you have to muddle through lines of HTML to keep your website up-to-date? Understanding how to create and edit web pages has always been a barrier between librarians and their desire to provide current, useful, and interesting content to patrons. Not anymore! This hands-on workshop will help you discover how quick and easy it is to make a website, course page, or blog more interactive and dynamic with easy to create widgets and gadgets. With no programming skills, little technological knowledge, and no money, you’ll be able to easily embed dynamic, reusable content in your library’s web pages. Learn how Twitter, Facebook, Del.icio.us, and other widgets can help you create a site that you’ll be proud to show your patrons. Stop editing code, and start providing dynamic content.
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Keywords: Widgets Gadgets Web 2.0 Dynamic Interactive Websites Communication Academic Libraries Public Libraries