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Well, the IUG conference makes us all busier than usual, but it’s an exciting time too. I’m finishing presentations on best practices for WebPAC design, getting started and more with Web Access Log analysis, accessibility, and a showcase of how libraries call attention to their special collections using the WebPAC. Okay, let’s be honest, some […]

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I recently sat with Spenser Thompson from our Marketing department for an interview on customizing the Millennium WebPAC. I like to share what I know from inside the WebPAC; and it sure is different when somebody else is thinking of the questions! I hope you will listen, especially if you are new to customizing your […]

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I didn’t get to post something here for a couple of weeks. I have been busy with a new set of features for Innovative’s AirPAC product. I can’t help but feel like I’m spilling the beans on this, but everybody who sees the new AirPAC on an iPhone gets excited. Several of my colleagues have […]

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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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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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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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