1. Overview Cool Tools Update For Library Web Sites Darlene Fichter University of Saskatchewan Frank Cervone Northwestern University November 15, 2004

2. 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

3. Crafty Syntax Help Chat  http://www.craftysyntax.com/CSLH/ 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

5. Zoom In: Bookbinding's, Maps and Photos  CSS and JavaScript  Compatibility –cross browser support for newer browsers with good implementations of CSS http://persistent.info/archives/2004/05/08/magnifier

7. The Rasterbator  Create huge rasterized images  Cover a library wall with: –New program or service –Winning photo http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

9. Open ClipArt Library  http://clipart.freedesktop.org/ http://clipart.freedesktop.org/  Public domain clipart library

10. 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

11. 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/

13. 3D Flash Animator  http://www.3dfa.com/ http://www.3dfa.com/  Create animations, interactive components for sophisticated website interfaces and arcade-style games

15. Multimedia  Serious Magic –Do-it-Yourself Video –$199.95 basic product for web training videos http://www.seriousmagic.com

16. Wink  http://www.debugmode.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 fileDemo file

17. For Developers  HTML text editor that you can add to your applications  Has powerful WSIWYG toolset like Word toolbar  Free, Open Source  Internet Explorer 5.5+ and Gecko browser (Mozilla / Netscape) compatibility  XHTML 1.0 support http://www.fckeditor.net/

19. FCK editor  Server side –ASP.Net –ASP –ColdFusion –PHP –Java

20. osTicket  http://www.osticket.com/ http://www.osticket.com/  Open source, problem tracking system

21. 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.htmlhttp://www.delorie.com/web/headers.html  What is my IP? –http://whatismyip.com/http://whatismyip.com/

22. META Tag Analyzer  http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer/ http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer/  Critique and advice on web page META tags

23. Productivity Tools: mail2web.com http://mail2web.com/

24. Access: Web Browser, PDA, …

25. Lynx viewer  http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html  Use for testing web site accessibility

26. Lynx on Windows  http://csant.info/lynx.htm http://csant.info/lynx.htm  A version of Lynx that runs directly on the Windows platform

27. Spurl – Social Bookmark and Research Tool Thumbnail, Internet Archive, who links to them? http://www.spurl.net/

28. SubEthaEdit  Edit the same document, live, in real time, together with everyone in your group  Mac OS X  Cost: $35.00 http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/

30. WebNote  http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/ http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/  “Sticky note” note taking application

31. 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, PowerPoint http://www.primopdf.com

33. Font Comparison Utility  http://www.howardesign.com/exp/fonts/co mpare.html http://www.howardesign.com/exp/fonts/co mpare.html

34. NXPowerLite  http://www.nxpowerlite.com/index.php http://www.nxpowerlite.com/index.php  Reduces the size of a Powerpoint presentation

35. 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/

37. Translation Wizard  http://www.faganfinder.com/translate/ http://www.faganfinder.com/translate/  Let’s get international!

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39. Integrate Thumbshots  Free or pay service  Free – attribution  Integrate into dynamic pages/search results