Web Design for Libraries - by Charles Rubenstein (Paperback)

About the Book

Having a clear, attractive, and easy-to-navigate website that allows users to quickly find what they want is essential for any organization--including a library. This workbook makes website creation easy--no HTML required.
This book teaches all of the essentials for designing and creating a simple, professional-looking website for any library. By using cut-and-paste templates from familiar software programs, readers can create complex websites in short order--without learning confusing HTML coding. Three final chapters cover using style sheets, address the potential benefits of HTML5, and overview content management system based websites. By using this guidebook as a reference, even those without previous knowledge about web design will possess enough basic information to create a great web page--and, with a little practice, prepare a full library website.

• Offers a basic textbook for short courses or workshops, or a segment of a longer course that would cover advanced tools to create websites
• Supplies a useful resource for readers with little or no programming background as well as for librarians who need to refresh or update their existing knowledge about web design
• Clarifies the benefits and limitations of using commercially available software tools for web design
• Utilizes a fictitious library as an instruction example that underscores key points for readers

Book Synopsis

Having a clear, attractive, and easy-to-navigate website that allows users to quickly find what they want is essential for any organization--including a library. This workbook makes website creation easy--no HTML required.

This book teaches all of the essentials for designing and creating a simple, professional-looking website for any library. By using cut-and-paste templates from familiar software programs, readers can create complex websites in short order--without learning confusing HTML coding. Three final chapters cover using style sheets, address the potential benefits of HTML5, and overview content management system based websites. By using this guidebook as a reference, even those without previous knowledge about web design will possess enough basic information to create a great web page--and, with a little practice, prepare a full library website.

Review Quotes

"Written by an experienced library web page designer and professor of engineering and information science at the Pratt Institute, this book is full of details that will help librarians create library web pages with HTML, CSS, and XML code. . . . For a book on library web design using HTML, CSS, and XML, it is easy to understand. Rubenstein has a relaxed style of writing that takes the intimidation factor out of library web design using code. . . . In summary, this book provides an enormous amount of information. . . . I would recommend that librarians who are on a quest to design library web pages using HTML, CSS, and XML purchase this book." --Technical Services Quarterly

About the Author

Charles P. Rubenstein, MLS, PhD, is professor of information science and engineering at the graduate School of Information and Library Science at Pratt Institute and visiting professor of engineering at the Institute for Research and Technology Transfer, Farmingdale State College (SUNY).