Web Design for Libraries

Having a clear, attractive, and easy-to-navigate website that allows users to quickly find what they want is essential for any organization-including a library. This workbook makes website creation easy-no HTML required.

This book teaches all of the essentials for designing and creating a simple, professional-looking website for any library. By using cut-and-paste templates from familiar software programs, readers can create complex websites in short order-without learning confusing HTML coding. Three final chapters cover using style sheets, address the potential benefits of HTML5, and overview content management system based websites. By using this guidebook as a reference, even those without previous knowledge about web design will possess enough basic information to create a great web page-and, with a little practice, prepare a full library website.

List of contents

Contents

List of Figures

Preface

Chapter 1: Quick Start Web Design

Chapter 2: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

Chapter 3: The HTML Document

Chapter 4: Displaying Text in Your HTML Document

Chapter 5: Images and Linking to other Web Pages

Chapter 6: Basic Style Sheets and Floating Images

Chapter 7: Lists, Lists, and More Lists

Chapter 8: Tables and their Creative Uses

Chapter 9: Forms for Patron Interactivity

Chapter 10: Web Page Navigation, Image Mapping and Marquees

Chapter 11: More Fun with CSS

Chapter 12: XML

Chapter 13: Content Management Systems, Mobile Applications and Things that Go Bump in the Night

Appendix A: HTML Element Syntax

Appendix B: HTML Entity Relationship Characters

Appendix C: Cascading Style Sheets: CSS Properties and Syntax

Index

About the author

Charles P. Rubenstein is Professor of Information Science and Engineering at the Pratt Institute's Graduate School of Information and Library Science. Since 1996, he has developed Web sites for professional societies and educational entities. A distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Engineering Management Society, he has presented tutorials in India, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the United States.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Rubenstein, Rubenstein Charles P.
• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.08.2014
• EAN: 9781610693431
• ISBN: 978-1-61069-343-1
• No. of pages: 348
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 280 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 877 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; COMPUTERS / Information Technology, Library & Information Sciences, Library and information sciences / Museology