LIS450LW - Class Weblog

2003-05-06T13:10:00.000-05:00

The Publications Office Redesign

Old Publications Office Site

New Publications Office Site

2003-05-06T13:03:00.000-05:00

LIS User's Guide

Old User's Guide
New User's Guide

2003-05-06T13:01:00.000-05:00

Here's a link to our presentation website for the urbana-champaign Independent Media Center.

http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/IMC/IMCWebSite/presentation.html

and Old IMC library website
and New IMC library website

2003-05-06T13:00:00.001-05:00

Library History Seminar XI -- Original Version
Library History Seminar XI -- Final Version

---Group 3

2003-05-06T13:00:00.000-05:00

New User's Guide
Old User's Guide

2003-05-06T10:24:00.000-05:00

C-U Storytelling Guild original website.
C-U Storytelling Guild redesign, created by Soo Kyung Ham, Helen Hejny, Christine Kujawa, and Maria Villanueva.

2003-05-05T15:59:00.000-05:00

Azerbaijani Library Development Association Website created by Alexis Burson, Amy Hribar, and Qing Zhao.
Link to the previous AzLa site.
AzLA Design Plan

2003-04-29T14:08:00.000-05:00

For those of you who may be interested, here is a link to my Online Resume and Portfolio.

Cheers,
-Chad

2003-04-29T13:01:00.000-05:00

Here is a link to my (perhaps overlapping) Discovery Presentation on advertising on the web.

--Samantha

2003-04-28T23:12:00.000-05:00

Here is a link to my Discovery Presentation on Meta Tags .
Irene

2003-04-23T07:18:00.000-05:00

Google is a beautiful thing ... check out O'Reilly's book on Google Hacks, things you can do in Google that you didnt know were possible. Here's a list of the hacks covered in the book and some sample hacks.

2003-04-22T12:54:00.000-05:00

Here is the link to my discovery presentation
Neil

2003-04-21T07:29:00.000-05:00

Here's a site with a 3 column layout that demonstrates how to control the spacing, positioning, and size of columns - http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/layouts/3Col_NN4_FMFM.mhtml

2003-04-20T13:38:00.000-05:00

My discovery assignment.
Integrated Web Technologies

Thanks,

Kwangsoo

2003-04-19T13:14:00.000-05:00

Here is a link to my presentation on Web Site Maintenance for April 22, 2003:
Click Here!

Thanks -
Christine Ross

2003-04-15T14:11:00.000-05:00

Sorry 'bout that..here is a link to my PHP MySQL presentation .

-Chad

2003-04-15T12:55:00.000-05:00

My Discovery Presentation

Kathryn

2003-04-15T10:31:00.000-05:00

hello everyone. i am posting my site for the discovery assignment. see that here:

http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~btuttle/photoshop/photoshop_disc.html

i did this very stupidly and i have lots of big images in there that take forever to load. this is very ironic as i'll be showing everyone all about photoshop and how to optimize images, yet i didn't.

anyway, please click on all the links and start letting the images load as soon as you get into class.

sorry about that, "do what i say, not what i do." ;)

2003-04-15T09:44:00.000-05:00

bobby approved resume

2003-04-10T16:41:00.000-05:00

I just wanted to pass this along in case anyone was interested. I just received it from the tourbus listserv, which can be found at: http://www.TOURBUS.com. have a good day!
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More 508 Stuff
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Last week we talked about both section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and sites you can visit to learn how to make your Web pages 508 compliant. I received a BUNCH of email about that post.

Pat writes

Here in NYS, we must adhere to the W3C guidelines for website accessibility. They are SLIGHTLY different than the Section 508 ones. I have lots of links at

http://www.mhric.org/pat/resources.html

on this topic. I have been teaching Website Accessibility for several years now. In fact, it became policy in NYS in December of 2000: a full 6 months before the federal law in June of 2001.

JL adds that

most states have also adopted ADA web site compliance directives.
Consequently most state's web sites, sub-sites, agency sites, must comply with 508 standards.
Since I commonly work with underfunded conservation districts and environmental nonprofits who typically have web work done by volunteers, I have free online workshops on Accessibility and security issues at:

http://www.cyber-sierra.com/workshops/index.htm

The workshops are designed to help do-it-yourself types and beginning web designers get a handle on dealing with 508 compliance.

If you are interested in tools to check your site for 508 compliance, Ihor notes that
The University of Toronto's Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC) and the TRACE Center at the University of Wisconsin have jointly developed "A-Prompt", a web accessibilty verifier
program. It does check for the 16 web design rules you mentioned in your article. See:
http://aprompt.snow.utoronto.ca/

The software is available free of charge.

But what if you don't want to download any new software? Well, "M"
has dug up a site s/he found to be very helpful - you can check your whole site for compliance:

http://www.cynthiasays.com/

And, of course, don't forget Bobby at

http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp.

And for those of you who don't have a Web site and are wondering why I'm even talking about section 508, here are two comments that might interest you. First, Phillip writes

The U.S. government has a rule that says that any software considered for purchase by the government must have a statement describing how well the software conforms to section 508 guidelines ...

For now, compliance with section 508 is NOT required for the government to purchase your software. The only requirement is that you document how well you comply. Obviously, better compliance is a competitive advantage in getting a government contract. This is slowly changing, however. Although the law
doesn't require compliance, some universities and government bodies are changing their individual policies to requiring compliance before purchasing software.

So what does this have to do with you and me? Well, considering that the government buys a LOT more software than you and I do, the government's [future] requirement that the software it purchases be
508 compliant will probably mean that MOST commercial software programs will soon be 508 compliant.

Finally, Sam adds
I just wanted to write you to thank you for covering section 508 in one of your Tourbus newsletters. As you are already aware from the numerous blind callers you get on Website Wednesday
Nights on WGN radio, there is a large base of blind and visually-impaired computer users who listen to your show. The Internet has proven to be both a godsend and a curse to the disabled community. It has provided access to information that was previously not available to us in a timely or economic fashion,
but the barriers created by emerging technology and incompatible design have also created barriers to this information as well. You don't know how frustrating it is to visit a site in order to obtain information, conduct a transaction or fill out a form, only to be met with these stumbling blocks that shut the door to
the Internet in your face. Of course, this problem lies way beyond the Internet. Much more insidious than access to the web is the problem of access to noncompliant software.
Unfortunately, enough companies still do not feel obligated to use programming
techniques to render their software accessible to assistive technologies. And of course going beyond the computer are all the stand-alone digital devices, DVD players, etc. which do not
provide accessible alternatives. It's a shame that accessibility has become such a hot topic only so recently. Of course, CAST and Bobby, along with other accessibility tools and standards, have been around long before Section 508, but oftentimes it takes a law to wake up corporate America and get them to realize that
they need to cater to all of their consumers.

2003-04-08T12:33:00.000-05:00

Presentaion 04.08.03 WYSIWYG web page editors
http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~lakshtnv/LIS450/presentation.htm

2003-04-01T12:56:00.000-06:00

link to discovery presentation:

Internet Filters

2003-03-19T10:45:00.000-06:00

HTML and CSS Resumes-validated

http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~btuttle/resume.html

http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~btuttle/resume_css.html

2003-03-18T12:11:00.000-06:00

here's a link the the storyteller's guild group design plan:

STG Group Design Plan

2003-03-18T10:18:00.000-06:00

CGI for Beginners
Soo's Discovery Assignment

2003-03-17T21:04:00.000-06:00

Here is a link to my Flash Discovery presentation:
http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/dmcmaste/flashdiscovery.html

-Dani

2003-03-17T09:41:00.000-06:00

Here are my HTML and CSS validated Resume.
Tabitha
http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~tbilyeu/Resume2.html
http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~tbilyeu/ResumeLayout.css

2003-03-11T15:23:00.000-06:00

CSS Lab
http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~fennell/threecolumn.html

2003-03-11T12:26:00.000-06:00

Debra's Design & Typography Discovery
Presentation

2003-03-11T11:58:00.000-06:00

Sara's Graphics Discovery Presentation

2003-03-04T11:04:00.000-06:00

Cascading Style Sheets Discovery Assignment

-Lauren

2003-03-04T10:40:00.000-06:00

An Introduction to XForms.

- Qing

2003-02-25T15:51:00.000-06:00

FramesLab

http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~fennell/FramesLab1.html

-Chad

2003-02-25T14:43:00.000-06:00

link to the storyteller's guild needs assessment:
http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/Storytelling_Guild_Web/450LWinterview.htm

2003-02-25T12:29:00.000-06:00

Tips for a Readable Web Page

helen and maria

2003-02-25T12:16:00.000-06:00

Link to Independent Media Center Library Needs Assessment:

http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/fennell/450LW/Needs.Assessment.Interview.doc

2003-02-25T09:54:00.000-06:00

Here is my attempt at frames

2003-02-24T13:17:00.000-06:00

This links to the Group 3 -- Library History Seminar XI -- Needs Assessment paper.

2003-02-23T17:20:00.000-06:00

My validated resume (minus the sordid events of my life--HA!)

2003-02-20T07:46:00.000-06:00

Here is the link to my homepage from which you can see my frames and table-version assignments (see assignment chart at 2/18). The frames assignment works best (or only) in the Internet Explorer Browser.

--Sara

2003-02-19T15:50:00.000-06:00

She Sings! She Dances! She Uses Frames!

Even More Frames!

-Lauren

2003-02-18T21:40:00.000-06:00

That last error message from the validator ...grrrr!

Here's my partial vita.

Amy

2003-02-18T17:50:00.000-06:00

Here's a link that gives some more detail on opening a link into a particular window when creating frames. http://www.techcorps.org/webteacher/winexp/frames/names.html. You need to give a name to each frame and then use targets when creating links to open the link into the frame of your choice. Here's another explanation - http://www.leeds.ac.uk/acom/html/subj_framelink.html

2003-02-18T14:08:00.000-06:00

Who wouldn't want to hire such excellence ?

-Lauren

2003-02-18T13:15:00.000-06:00

Here's my resume.

Cheers,
Chad

2003-02-18T13:14:00.000-06:00

Here is the link to my presentation.
Alexis

2003-02-18T12:59:00.000-06:00

Here is a link to my discovery assignment.

2003-02-18T12:50:00.000-06:00

Here is a link to my Discovery Assignment. http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/kmgriffi/discovery.html

2003-02-17T20:22:00.000-06:00

Here is the link to my w3c validated CV page.

Irene

2003-02-17T20:02:00.000-06:00

Here is my validated
resume.
-Maria

2003-02-17T19:47:00.000-06:00

Here is my W3C validated html RESUME!. (I hope.)

Kathryn

2003-02-17T13:50:00.000-06:00

Please check the W3C validated html page of my resume. Thanks. :-)

-- Qing Zhao

2003-02-16T22:38:00.000-06:00

My w3c Validated resume page is at
http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~sooham/resume.html
-Soo

2003-02-16T18:03:00.000-06:00

For your consideration:
Here is my w3c validated page.

2003-02-15T22:07:00.000-06:00

Here is a link to my W3C validated page:
http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~ross/validated_resume.htm

2003-02-14T10:53:00.000-06:00

Finally!
Here is the link to my w3c validated resume page:
http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~tbilyeu/resume.html
-Tabitha

2003-02-13T16:08:00.000-06:00

Here is the link to my w3c validated resume web page:
http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/ckujawa/lis450lw/kujawaresume.html

-christine

2003-02-12T19:20:00.000-06:00

Here is the link to my lists/resume w3c validated site:

http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/vander/450LW/basicresume.html

--sara

2003-02-11T20:11:00.000-06:00

We were talking about open source in class today and I mentioned a documentart I saw in my 315 (Networking) class.
Here's a link to a web page about it. Revolution OS

2003-02-11T16:43:00.000-06:00

Here are some resources to help understand some of the validation errors that you are getting when running your pages through the W3C validation service. WebMaster World has a forum on common problems- http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/1921.htm, W3C provides some documentation on error messages - http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.html, & http://validator.w3.org/docs/errors.html. The Web Design Group also has a validator that might help you understand some of the error messages that you are getting.

2003-02-11T14:16:00.000-06:00

Howdy all,

Here's the link for my discovery presentation today --

A Brief Overview of Internet Accessibility: http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/a-hribar/450LW/Accessibility.html

As the title suggests, I'll be breifly discussing some things we need to think about in order to make our projects more accessible to all users (in terms of both dis/abilities and technologies). Included at the end of the presentation outline is a list of links to resources for further information.

amy

2003-02-11T12:43:00.000-06:00

Here is the URL for my discovery presentation.

A basic introduction to the Mozilla browser:
http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/kvgonzal/index.html

2003-02-08T06:53:00.000-06:00

Rusty Foster has an interesting article in the USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review, Understanding Information Architecture, on the role of an information architect in web design and the problem of designing a web site so that people can actually find the information that they are looking for in the right format. At the end of the article, there is an interview by Foster about the redesign of NPR's web site. The article was cited in Phil Agre's Red Rock Eater News (RRE) Listserv - a good place to find news about privacy issues, civil liberties, security, the open source movement, politics, etc. An archive is available at http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/

2003-02-05T20:07:00.000-06:00

We've been linked to: Check out The Shifted Librarian & Cold Spring Shops blogs! Jenny Levine, the editor of the Shifted Librarian blog, is a GSLIS grad! Any other GSLIS alum with blogs? Send us a note so we can create a list of GSLIS related sites.

2003-02-04T18:57:00.000-06:00

So what are your favorite librarian and nonlibrarian related blogs? I saw some listed but I think they may be buried in all the test messages. Does anyone at GSLIS have a blog? Check out some of these sites to find new blogs - blo.gs: most watched blogs, BlogStreet's Top 100, blogging ecosystem, Technorati's Top 100

Ps. feel free to change the design template ...experiment away.....

2003-02-04T18:54:00.000-06:00

From Lynn Hanson:

I strongly recommend that the course incorporate information from Jon Gunderson's course, "Designing Universally Accessible Web Resources." I've completed the course and found it a very valuable eye-opener about an aspect of web design that is essential but too often overlooked. For more information see http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/courses

The next web-based class will be offered Feb 18-April 24.

2003-02-04T17:20:00.000-06:00

Test link to our group site: AzLA group

2003-02-04T13:34:00.000-06:00

Hey Chad, that URL doesn't work.

2003-02-04T13:33:00.000-06:00

this is a test by Soo, UIUC

2003-02-04T13:29:00.000-06:00

Test 2 test UIUC Library

2003-02-04T13:28:00.003-06:00

Here is my message. Check out this fun website of one of the best russian designers:

2003-02-04T13:28:00.002-06:00

Here's a shameless promotion of our local community website- Community Issues Forum. This semester we will hold a deliberative forum on the role of media in American society. Sign-up for the ListServe to receive updates about upcoming events!

2003-02-04T13:28:00.001-06:00

Are you a lipstick librarian?

2003-02-04T13:28:00.000-06:00

Linking again here

2003-02-04T13:27:00.005-06:00

I slept until 10:00 and made Dutch Almond cookies this morning. I had a spinach salad for breakfast. Pretty exciting...

2003-02-04T13:27:00.004-06:00

test Hi!

2003-02-04T13:27:00.003-06:00

This is blog

2003-02-04T13:27:00.002-06:00

Hello fellow bloggers!

2003-02-04T13:27:00.001-06:00

Here's the test to see what this is all about.
Let's link you to some damn page

2003-02-04T13:27:00.000-06:00

Hi, this is a test by Soo,

2003-02-04T13:26:00.006-06:00

trying out the editing....

2003-02-04T13:26:00.005-06:00

Posting test TEST Undergraduate Library

2003-02-04T13:26:00.004-06:00

"In those days, men were real men, women were real women, and small, furry creatures from Alpa Centuri were real small, furry creatures from Alpha Centuri."

2003-02-04T13:26:00.003-06:00

Don't forget to check changes to the syllabus!

2003-02-04T13:26:00.002-06:00

Test Hello uiuc

2003-02-04T13:26:00.001-06:00

Here is one of my favorite library blogs.

2003-02-04T13:26:00.000-06:00

i am typing a message for the blog

2003-02-04T13:25:00.003-06:00

Blog test

2003-02-04T13:25:00.002-06:00

Greetings class members. I am very sleepy.

2003-02-04T13:25:00.001-06:00

Howdy ya'll! This is the BLOG!!!

2003-02-04T13:25:00.000-06:00

Test message

2003-02-04T13:20:00.000-06:00

This is the blog.

2003-01-30T16:32:00.000-06:00

Here's some info about blogging/weblogs:

Here's an article - Blogs Are a Natural for Librarians - http://www.livejournal.com/users/lucy_anne/day/2001/10/04
Here's a Salon article about blogging - http://archive.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2002/05/10/blogs/
Some blogs I look at: Library Stuff, Librarian.net, The Shifted Librarian, LISnews.com, Research Buzz
Here's Google's list of weblogs related to library and information science - http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Libraries/Library_and_Information_Science/Weblogs/?il=1
Peter Scott's list of library related blogs - http://www.libdex.com/weblogs.html
Here's Google's list of all different kinds of weblogs many just for fun!- http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/
Mary Towner created a blog that describes the progress on building construction after taking LIS450LW - http://www.urbanafreelibrary.org/bldgblog.html
Daypop is a current events search engine that looks at the links referenced in weblogs. I look at the Top 40 and the Top Stories to find out what stories people are talking about (the most referenced news stories linked in people's weblogs) - http://www.daypop.com/
AmphetaDesk is a free program that you can install that will gather news from different weblogs and put the stories on one web page that you can scan - http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/

I will add each of you to this blog so you can post some of your favorite sites and weblogs too!

2003-01-30T13:34:00.000-06:00

For those of you who are having password problems

CITES Password Home Page to activate and set your email password.
https://www-apps.cites.uiuc.edu/password/

For password and email questions call (244-7000), email (consult@uiuc.edu), or visit the CITES Help Desk (walk-up and phone hours are M-F 8:30am to 5pm).