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Website overhaul
10:27 PM EDT 6/26/06
This site is wonderful! I am a new library director starting July 1st.

Stumbled upon you when looking for advice how to give some panache to our

web site and an alternative to the $12/mo. web hosting we have now with Yahoo.

My dilemma - we have negotiated a good rate to move our OPAC catalog to the

web with a vendor that is usually found in schools and I can even change

background and icons to coordinate with a more professional web template.

I know how to use Page Plus, basic HTML, and the concept behind CSSs, but

where can I find:

1) templates with more polish and

2) web hosts that won't charge an arm and a leg.

Bonnie Matlow
Re: Website overhaul
12:36 PM EDT 7/17/06 as a reply to Bonnie Matlow.
Bonnie, welcome to WJ! And I apologize for missing this post until now. Some things just slip by me on the busier days.

It sounds like you already have the key ingredient for enhancing your library's web presence --that 'I can do it' attitude. You might get some ideas from the [url http://webjunction.org/forums/click.jspa?searchID=8357&messageID=27187 ]Web Site re-vision[/url] topic in another forum. Or you might want to jump into that conversation and see if you get a response.

I'm still on a learning curve with all this Web development stuff, but I enjoy the ride. I've found the tech books from [url http://www.sitepoint.com/books/cssant1/about.php?SID=85d766ac2abe935dcc6103613fc9cd63 ]SitePoint[/url] to be very helpful in explaining CSS.

Good luck and let us know what you discover. emoticon
Re: Website overhaul
8:34 PM EDT 8/2/06 as a reply to Betha Gutsche.
Also, check out http://engagedpatrons.org for some neat ideas on how to get some Web 2.0 stuff easily up onto your library web site.
Re: Website overhaul
12:13 PM EDT 8/8/06 as a reply to Bonnie Matlow.
Bonnie - you might want to try something like http://www.oswd.org/ for free, open-source web templates. These templates are completely free and some of them are pretty nice. Even if you don't find exactly what you want, you should be able to take one of them and change it around to fit your needs, using the resources that Chrystie posted for you!
Re: Website overhaul
5:00 PM EDT 8/23/06 as a reply to Bonnie Matlow.
I am unsure what templates that you are looking for. If you are looking for a design that has editable regions and non-editable regions, with the non-editable regions being navigation and other items that will not change often. Be aware that if you are using a template, one the template is changed, every page that uses that template will have to be uploaded to the web server, unless you are editing directly on the server.

An alternative to this is SSI (server side includes) if the web server allows this (php, asp, shtml, etc.)

CSS is great for presentation of your site, and also for what is printed from the site. You can seperate screen from print.