Comments on: standards compliant library websites http://www.librarian.net/stax/1722/standards-compliant-library-websites/ putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:14:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Creative Librarian » Web Standards http://www.librarian.net/stax/1722/standards-compliant-library-websites/comment-page-1/#comment-7126 Creative Librarian » Web Standards Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:33:33 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/1722#comment-7126 [...] librarian.net » standards compliant library websites has some good links. I’ve put off posting this until I could put some real thought into it but that doesn’t look like it’ll be happening soon. [...] [...] librarian.net » standards compliant library websites has some good links. I’ve put off posting this until I could put some real thought into it but that doesn’t look like it’ll be happening soon. [...]

]]> By: OPAChyderm » First Mover Disadvantage http://www.librarian.net/stax/1722/standards-compliant-library-websites/comment-page-1/#comment-6657 OPAChyderm » First Mover Disadvantage Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:15:37 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/1722#comment-6657 [...] Standards compliant library websites over at Librarian.net pulls together a few pleas from the sometimes-excellent Web4Lib email list. [...] [...] Standards compliant library websites over at Librarian.net pulls together a few pleas from the sometimes-excellent Web4Lib email list. [...]

]]> By: jessamyn http://www.librarian.net/stax/1722/standards-compliant-library-websites/comment-page-1/#comment-6445 jessamyn Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:55:49 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/1722#comment-6445 I agree with you here, though it has to go hand in hand with a stylebook or something similar for people who are really new to HTML. When HTML got their "CMS" (which was actually just more of a content uploader) people would still use it the same way they wrote Word documents, without really knowing how to make good HTML for images and without knowing how to write for the web, much less be standards-compliant. With a good CMS and some good guidelines, you can make pages compliant *and* keep them that way. I agree with you here, though it has to go hand in hand with a stylebook or something similar for people who are really new to HTML. When HTML got their “CMS” (which was actually just more of a content uploader) people would still use it the same way they wrote Word documents, without really knowing how to make good HTML for images and without knowing how to write for the web, much less be standards-compliant. With a good CMS and some good guidelines, you can make pages compliant *and* keep them that way.

]]> By: mike http://www.librarian.net/stax/1722/standards-compliant-library-websites/comment-page-1/#comment-6375 mike Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:57:35 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/1722#comment-6375 I think CMS is a great way to insure compliant websites. I'm a webmaster at a small college and our librarians who maintain the library site, while dedicated to standards and accessiblity, don't have the expertise to create standards based web pages. If a web professional is not maintaining the site, it's really about giving the folks creating the content the right tools (CMS, Contribute, etc...) and a good site structure. No solution is perfect, but that's seemed to work best in my experience. I think CMS is a great way to insure compliant websites. I’m a webmaster at a small college and our librarians who maintain the library site, while dedicated to standards and accessiblity, don’t have the expertise to create standards based web pages. If a web professional is not maintaining the site, it’s really about giving the folks creating the content the right tools (CMS, Contribute, etc…) and a good site structure. No solution is perfect, but that’s seemed to work best in my experience.

]]> By: Joshua Neds-Fox http://www.librarian.net/stax/1722/standards-compliant-library-websites/comment-page-1/#comment-6322 Joshua Neds-Fox Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:12:01 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/1722#comment-6322 when my library hired me to tackle their ad-hoc website two years ago, i adopted standards compliance as a base value, partly to ensure accessiblity and partly to make sure the site would work in future browsers as well (or better than!) it does in today's. i would venture to say that our site is both compliant <em>and</em> pretty (<a href="http://www.westland.lib.mi.us" rel="nofollow">http://www.westland.lib.mi.us</a>), and fairly easy to maintain. i hard code the site, which is both a blessing and a curse: if i had it to do all over again, and circumstances were different, i'd install a cms and make sure the templates were standards compliant. actually, this is still my plan. i worry a little about the future for my library. the site as is will remain compliant, but someday i may not be here. i constantly proselytise, but i don't know how much gets through to the powers that be, and even if they do remember that we're standards compliant, they probably don't understand the larger implications and they certainly have no idea what's under the hood. will the library continue to see standards compliance as a necessary component? will they hire accordingly? doing the work now to build a back-end that's friendly to non-techie content creators could lock in compliance long after i've left the building. when my library hired me to tackle their ad-hoc website two years ago, i adopted standards compliance as a base value, partly to ensure accessiblity and partly to make sure the site would work in future browsers as well (or better than!) it does in today’s. i would venture to say that our site is both compliant and pretty (http://www.westland.lib.mi.us), and fairly easy to maintain. i hard code the site, which is both a blessing and a curse: if i had it to do all over again, and circumstances were different, i’d install a cms and make sure the templates were standards compliant.

actually, this is still my plan. i worry a little about the future for my library. the site as is will remain compliant, but someday i may not be here. i constantly proselytise, but i don’t know how much gets through to the powers that be, and even if they do remember that we’re standards compliant, they probably don’t understand the larger implications and they certainly have no idea what’s under the hood. will the library continue to see standards compliance as a necessary component? will they hire accordingly? doing the work now to build a back-end that’s friendly to non-techie content creators could lock in compliance long after i’ve left the building.

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