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Creating a Power Web Site: Html, Tables, Imagemaps, Frames, and Forms |  | Authors: Gail Junion-Metz, Brad Stephens
Publisher: Neal-Schuman Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $125.00
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2651334
Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/Dsk
Pages: 199
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.6 x 0.6
ISBN: 1555703232
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.72
EAN: 9781555703233
ASIN: 1555703232
Publication Date: November 1998
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Product Description
Designed for people who have already created a basic Website for their library, but want to turn it into a high-end one, this easy-to-follow manual contains numerous library examples and practical exercises that help make Websites more appealing, efficient, and interactive. It teaches how to create tables, arrange content more effectively, get more feedback from patrons, and add imagemap graphics which will allow patrons to connect to information in other parts of the Website by clicking on pictures. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the tools needed to quickly create features on the Website. This package details how to improve Webpages by: learning HTML tags (from those that identify documents and affect text displays to ones that create lists, hypertext links and graphics displays); creating imagemap graphics with Map This! and adding them to HTML documents; creating tables; using frames to create more effective pages; using forms to get feedback from patrons (including sample interlibrary loan, reserve, library card and purchase request forms); understanding forms and CGI basics using PERL; creating a feedback form (including security issues); and creating database search forms (including a local genealogy database and search form). The CD-ROM includes a Map This! freeware programme, and PERL Interpreter (with versions for LINUX, UNIX, Windows and Mac), HTML documents for all sample forms, and PERL code for all sample forms. Appendices include a user-friendly glossary of "techie terms", a bibliography, a list of HTML equivalent characters, an HTML "cheat sheet", a list of hexadecimal colours, and a summary of advanced PERL.
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 This book helped us create a stimulating website June 28, 1999
Mark E. Morelli (Cuyahoga Falls, OH USA)
A few years ago, my staff was stuck in the midst of a long stage of growing pains. Most of us had been weaned in the era of the typewriter, and we were still getting accustomed to having an online catalogue. Then came the deluge of instantly accessed electronic media. Nexus Lexus. The Web. CD ROM. Well, we managed to keep somewhat abreast of what was coming out, and in between directing patrons to dusty volumes of John Dos Passos and showing them how to access documents at this dot-com and that dot-org, we decided that our library system needed a web site. Our is a small to medium sized Ohio city and so we had a very good idea of who our clientele would be. But of course we did not possess programming savvy. "Creating a Power Web Site," to put it simply, gave us an extremely readable, rich resource that enables us to speak with authority when we work with our programmers to create what we are convinced is a stimulating and inviting web site. We recommend it.
 Not helpful and overpriced February 16, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I don't usually review books, but I was compelled to write about this one and my disappointment. A staff member purchased this book for my use. The authors in the intro make it sound like librarians are being dragged kicking and screaming into the information age and that this book will make it less painful. The book is intended to provide help in updating your web site - not creating one. Title is misleading in my opinion. The content is disjointed, there are no examples of how your code will look, there are even some tags that I have never seen used on any web page. Plus, I have already found one typo. The price is outrageous even with the CD (which is not very useful). Don't buy this book if you need to learn how to create or update web sites!
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