tips and tricks

There are many tools for editing your WebPAC html files and putting them in your screens directory. I like to use Dreamweaver, with a few friendly helpers.

Firefox: Rapid previewing of html and style changes.
Web Developers Toolbar: Editing styles and HTML on the fly.
Fangs plug-in: Reality-check of accessibility for screen readers.
Dreamweaver: Looking up style declarations and […]

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Taming Dreamweaver

“Do not use Dreamweaver. It will make a mess of your code.”
We have all heard this warning. You may have heard it just now for the first time, but you are sure to hear it again. And in fact, there is some truth to it. If you use Dreamweaver’s visual editor, it will write HTML […]

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Hello, blog readers. I am the Product Manager for WebPAC at Innovative Interfaces. A quick word on web log analysis. You may have already seen the link on CSDirect, our customer service portal. If not, I would like to call attention to it:

http://csdirect.iii.com/documentation/cir/weblogs.shtm (password required)

Many people here at Innovative worked hard to make […]

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Float Fun

Taking advantage of some CSS, and the <––{toplogo}––> and <––{botlogo}––> tokens (in either WebPAC Pro or the Web OPAC products) we can facilitate a little trick where we create a column that “floats” either to the right or left side of our page.
We can then add whatever content we want to present to our users […]

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This one is for those brave WebPAC Pro people who use the bib_display.html file. This also may be a little advanced if you don’t know much JavaScript, but I think you can still follow along. Now remember these tips and tricks won’t be supported by the help desk, these are meant for those who feel […]

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Most likely you have seen the pager used for multi-page catalog search results in the out-of-the-box Example Set for Innovative’s WebPAC Pro and Web OPAC products. How would you like to jazz that puppy up a little bit? It really isn’t all that hard.
With just a little very simple CSS we’re going to turn this:

Into […]

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