Week 7 Reading Notes

W3schools: HTML Tutorial

• I already love this site and will permanently bookmark it. The initial example is great for just warming up to HTML and playing around with it (at least a little bit).
• What’s the difference between italicized text and emphasized text? The end result looks the same to me. The same goes for the seemingly lack of different between bold and strong.
• Also, if you want to format your text smaller than normal, this is how you might write it in HTML: <p><small>This text is small.</small></p>
• For fonts, I wonder how many different fonts HTML recognizes. Or if it depends on the website and/or software you’re using?
• I really appreciate the tables of tags and their descriptions—extremely useful.

Wired: Webmonkey HTML Cheatsheet Guide

• Very, very useful. PDF is saved and page is bookmarked. I can’t wait to use these resources when using HTML.

Beyond HTML (Goans, D, Leach, G, Vogel, T M)

• Without creating too much work for web development librarian, would it be possible for various staff members to submit the content they want published on the website to the librarian who’s in charge of the website? That way the content gets published and there is greater consistency in the website? Even when guidelines are written out, there is often plenty of room for confusion or miscommunication.
• Do free Wordpress accounts/websites/blogs count as one type of a CMS because one doesn’t need to know a markup language in order to create content, and once items are uploaded, they are saved in a “library” that is linked to the account?
• Question: Are there effective open source CMS options? Oops—asked the question too soon. Granted, better OS options may have been created between 2005 and now.
• Very important for old websites to be archived once something new is used. I think Barry Chad at CLP (he also teaches Adult Services/Resources) created a page on the interview project he had back in the day, but I don’t think that webpage exists anymore since CLP grew out of their old website.
• If/When CMS options become more popular and effective, how useful will it be for future librarians to learn HTML?