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OverviewCool Tools Update For Library Web Sites
Darlene FichterUniversity of Saskatchewan
Frank CervoneNorthwestern University
November 15, 2004
Cool Tools
Third year – Highlight new tools each time– Check our site for past presentations
Types of Tools– Server– Client side– Web based– Inexpensive or open source
Crafty Syntax Help Chat
http://www.craftysyntax.com/CSLH/A multi-user, multi-operator, multi-
department live Help support chat system that allows the operators of the websites to monitor their visitors as they are browsing the site and proactively open a chat session with the visitor
Zoom In: Bookbinding's, Maps and Photos
CSS and JavaScriptCompatibility
– cross browser support for newer browsers with good implementations of CSS
http://persistent.info/archives/2004/05/08/magnifier
The Rasterbator
Create huge rasterized imagesCover a library wall with:
– New program or service– Winning photo
http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
Open ClipArt Library
http://clipart.freedesktop.org/Public domain clipart library
Dimensionizer
Menu plugin for Mac OS X that allows you to find out the dimensions of an image with one click
http://automaticlabs.com/products/dimensionizer
Height, width
Online Image Editor
Free editor if you’re in a bind and need to work on a couple of images
Downside: annoying ads and you’ll need to maneuver around them to use controls
http://www.myimager.com/
3D Flash Animator
http://www.3dfa.com/Create animations, interactive components
for sophisticated website interfaces and arcade-style games
Multimedia
Serious Magic– Do-it-Yourself Video– $199.95 basic product for web training videos
http://www.seriousmagic.com
Wink
http://www.debugmode.com/wink/Tutorial/presentation creation software
– Primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software
– Creates Flash files– Demo file
For Developers
HTML text editor that you can add to your applications
Has powerful WSIWYG toolset like Word toolbar
Free, Open SourceInternet Explorer 5.5+ and Gecko browser
(Mozilla / Netscape) compatibility XHTML 1.0 support
http://www.fckeditor.net/
FCK editor
Server side– ASP.Net – ASP – ColdFusion – PHP – Java
osTicket
http://www.osticket.com/Open source, problem tracking system
Handy Lookup Tools
HTTP Headers– Verify that the correct MIME type (the Content-
type: line) is being sent for each file type – Is your web server dishing up UTF-8 when
you’re character set is charset=iso-8859-1 – http://www.delorie.com/web/headers.html
What is my IP?– http://whatismyip.com/
META Tag Analyzer
http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer/Critique and advice on web page META
tags
Access: Web Browser, PDA, …
Lynx viewer
http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.htmlUse for testing web site accessibility
Lynx on Windows
http://csant.info/lynx.htmA version of Lynx that runs directly on the
Windows platform
Spurl – Social Bookmark and Research Tool
Thumbnail, Internet Archive,
who links to them?
http://www.spurl.net/
SubEthaEdit
Edit the same document, live, in real time, together with everyone in your group
Mac OS XCost: $35.00
http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/
WebNote
http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/“Sticky note” note taking application
Primo PDF
Download and install Microsoft ®– Windows® 98– Windows ME, – Windows 2000 – Windows NT®– Windows XP®
A minimum of 30 MB of available disk space
Convert from Word, Excel, PowerPointhttp://www.primopdf.com
Font Comparison Utility
http://www.howardesign.com/exp/fonts/compare.html
NXPowerLite
http://www.nxpowerlite.com/index.phpReduces the size of a Powerpoint
presentation
Tools that Keep You Smiling
Your own library “ELF” Consolidate your library accounts Get email notices before items are due Receive email alerts on overdues and
holds Receive text message alerts for holds
http://www.libraryelf.com/
Translation Wizard
http://www.faganfinder.com/translate/Let’s get international!
More Cool Tools ?
Choose Cool Tools in Darlene’s furl bookmark service
www.furl.net/members/fichter/
Subscribe to Darlene’s RSS feed for the Cool Tools topic
Link on her home page - http://library.usask.ca/~fichter