Secret Decoder Ring
Again this semester, I feel like I have lucked out and gotten two secret decoder rings in my cereal box! Both the “What is HTML” and the “Webmonkey HTML Cheat Sheet” were a bit of a tough read. However, these articles will be tremendous resources once it is time for practical application of this knowledge in the form of a lab or assignment. I know that they will serve me well as I learn HTML.
Another clue
This is an amazing world of computers and technology which nearly everyone uses in some fashion on a daily basis to make our work lives or personal lives a little bit easier. “Beyond HTML: Developing and re-imagining library web guides in a content management system” provided great insight to what lead to Gerogia State University’s development and successful implementation of a content management system. It was encouraging to see that what was a seemingly unwieldy and disorganized system was able to be revised and reinvented in to order to increase usage and access not only by contributing staff but also by the end users. Many lessons can be learned from this process; specifically that collaboration is paramount in creating a system that would meet the needs of the library users. My only observation is that while web developers and library personnel worked together and then launched the initial program, most users did not find it to be successful. Therefore, I would recommend that end users be involved on some level in the collaboration process. Perhaps this wouldn’t have delayed the final roll out and personnel as well as end users would have been able to take advantage of the CMS earlier.
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