web design
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 […]
“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 […]
Hi there, I’m Stephanie and I’m part of the Encore Services department. I started at Innovative as an intern in Product Management, then came back to work in Customer Services in the Digital Resources group and I’ve been here just about 3 years now.
In my spare time, I do some web design and I try […]
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 […]
What is Spotlight? Spotlight is where I will highlight good books from time to time, trying to help you build your own personal design library.
Today’s Spotlight is on Web Standards Creativity, a great book written by Cameron Adams, Mark Boulton, Andy Budd, Andy Clarke, Simon Collison, Jeff Croft, Derek Featherstone, Ian Lloyd, Ethan Marcotte, Dan […]
What is Now Showing? Now Showing is my attempt to shine a beacon into the vast dark wilderness of the web, hopefully guiding you to cool stuff you might not ordinarily find and that I think you might find useful (or just plain cool).
Today’s topics are the addons IE7Pro for Internet Explorer, and Greasekit for […]
What is the Friday Five? Here on random Fridays I will list five (or so) things that I find useful or of interest. Most of the time these will refer to web development or design, but on occasion I may throw a curveball into the mix to keep it interesting.
Today’s topic is “Design Eye for […]
What is Now Showing? Now Showing is my attempt to shine a beacon into the vast dark wilderness of the web, hopefully guiding you to cool stuff you might not ordinarily find and that I think you might find useful (or just plain cool).
Today’s topics are the Firefox Extensions Greasemonkey and Stylish. These bad boy […]
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 […]
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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