Web Design for Libraries

by Charles P. Rubenstein

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798216163923
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	08/28/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	24 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	7 - 17 Years

About the Author

Charles P. Rubenstein, MLS, PhD, is professor of information science and engineering at the graduate School of Information and Library Science at Pratt Institute and visiting professor of engineering at the Institute for Research and Technology Transfer, Farmingdale State College (SUNY).
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.

Table 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

Editorial Reviews

Written by an experienced library web page designer and professor of engineering and information science at the Pratt Institute, this book is full of details that will help librarians create library web pages with HTML, CSS, and XML code. . . . For a book on library web design using HTML, CSS, and XML, it is easy to understand. Rubenstein has a relaxed style of writing that takes the intimidation factor out of library web design using code. . . . In summary, this book provides an enormous amount of information. . . . I would recommend that librarians who are on a quest to design library web pages using HTML, CSS, and XML purchase this book.” —Technical Services Quarterly

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