Spice up your Webpage with Web2.0 tools

What is your vision for your webpage?

Like the yellow pages – an occasional reference tool?

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Like Newsweek or other weekly resource, or a daily resource like a newspaper?

There are massive numbers of web 2.0 resources.

http://www.go2web20.net/

Sites I’m currently usingTwitter1. District library news2. Cool websites3. Author birthdays4. Special days5. Public library events6. Links to tutorials about our databases, OPAC ect.7. Stats/odd searches in our catalog

(sogbobsqerpes)Social Oomph – schedule tweetsDelicious – organize linksBritannica Search widget Book Box – face out book display

What does it take to add a widget?No need to fear!

Go to siteFollow directions to create widgetCopy codeInsert into the HTML of your page

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HTML Basics

An HTML tag will always begin with a "less than" sign, like this: <. The tags will end with a "greater than" sign, like this: >. An example would be the tag used to underline text, <u>. You would place this before the text you want to underline. This is called an opening tag, which begins the operation you wish to perform. In order to end the underlining, you must use a closing tag. A closing tag will be the same as the opening tag, but will have a forward slash before the command, like this: </u>.

<u>Welcome to Mrs. Smith’s class</u>

A Few Common TagsBold: <b></b>Italics: <i></i>Center: <center></center>

Engaged Students and Community

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PowerPoint and links available at http://www.dentonisd.org/libraryservices under workshop handouts.