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Cool Tools Update for Library Web Sites Computers in Libraries Darlene Fichter [email protected] University of Saskatchewan March 10, 2004

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Cool Tools Update for Library Web Sites

Computers in Libraries

Darlene Fichter [email protected]

University of Saskatchewan

March 10, 2004

Color Scheme Tool - Pixy

www.pixy.cz/apps/barvy/index-en.html

Color blindness and color on screens

Shows the display at millions of colors At 256 colors 3 types of color blindness

http://www.htmlcompendium.org/detail-notes/6cblind-1.htm

Red text on white

Black text on lime green

SWiSH

Inexpensive, and has a free trialA single user license is only $49.95

USD Equips anybody with 10 minutes to

spare with the ability to make simple (and not so simple) flash animations for their sitehttp://www.swishzone.com

SWiSH – animation, movies

Beware of illegal video cassettes

Warning: Addiction zone!

http://www.swishzone.com/movies.php?do=page&action=detailed&link_id=520

FavIcon

Create icon to display Online FavIcon generator

http://www.html-kit.com/e/favicon.cgi Tips and a downloadable icon editor

http://www.chami.com/tips/internet/110599I.html

PDF Explorer

Fast and effective placement in a database file of Filename,

Title, Subject Author and Keywords fields of all the PDF files present in a certain folder or disk.

rtt.planetaclix.pt/

Toolbars

Added functionality at your fingertips

Google toolbar

Search Search histories See page ranks Stop pop up ads

http://toolbar.google.com/ Internet Explorer

Merriam-Webster Toolbar or Lookup Button

Adds a search box to your browser for quick and easy lookups

No need to type—just highlight a word on a Web page and click

Results display in a new browser window so you don't lose your page

Internet Explorer

www.merriam-webster.com/toolbar/

Shop-a-holics?

E-Bay toolbar Alerts just before auction ends Search

http://pages.ebay.com/ebay_toolbar/

Internet Explorer

Netscape 4.xx

Unix file permissions

JavaScript tool www.lights.ca/~scott/chmod.html

Web developers toolbar

Adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser Features

Off/on for java, JavaScript Controls for forms, styles, outlines, validation

Download it from: http://chrispederick.myacen.com/work/

firebird/webdeveloper/

Mozilla

Mozilla Firebird

fValidate - JavaScript form validation Validate many different data types (zip, cazip) Disable Submit and/or Reset button(s) upon

successful validation Prompt user with optional confirm message before

sending Twenty-Nine predefined error notification modes Meaningful error messages to the user, per field Custom error message on a field-by-field basis

www.peterbailey.net/fValidate

Example

sHTMLc

Save HTML code Show the HTML code on your web

page Cut and paste the code. Press a button

and voila! Perfect for adding code snippets in a Web

Style guide Tell people how to link to your site

hjem.get2net.dk/fec/shtmlc/shtmlc.html

Hiveware Enkoder form

Online web form for protecting your email from spam email-harvesting robots

Encrypt your email address and convert the result to a self evaluating JavaScript

http://hiveware.com/enkoder_form.php

Layout-o-Matic from inknoise

CSS layouts cross-browser compatible

One, two or three column layouts View and pick up your multi-column

CSS layout starter kit http://www.inknoise.com/experimental/

layoutomatic.php 4.x browsers

List-o-Matic

Create CSS menus Type in labels Choose a list style Create it, save it, add it to your CSS

style sheet, change colorshttp://www.accessify.com/tools-and-

wizards/list-o-matic/list-o-matic.asp

Examples

Browser.cam

Paste URLs into our Capture Wizard Select the browsers and operating

systems you want to check Hourly $10.00 - Up to 10 URL's in unlimited

browsers Monthly $ 39.95 Unlimited use

Payment

Brower Cam

www.browsercam.com

Firdamatic™

Design tool for uninspired webloggers Online tableless layout generator 2 or 3 column layout

www.wannabegirl.org/firdamatic/

Bloglines

server-based RSS aggregation system

blogs and newsfeed services

www.bloglines.com

ieSpell

ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage

Adds to same dictionary as other office programs

www.iespell.com

FURL

Click and save what you’re viewing Create your own topics to store items

under Annotate or “clip” part

www.furl.net

Questions?

Tools from the Internet Librarian 2002http://www.lights.ca/talks/