Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 1 - Webmaster Cool Tools

Posted on April 16, 2007
Filed Under Computers in Libraries, Cool tools, Web Design, Web Management |

Darlene Fichter, Frank Cervone, Jeff Wisniewski

Another extremely packed room - I’m sitting on the floor with about 20 other people!

Jeff Wisniewski:
Yahoo pipes - it’s a feed aggregator. You can apply logic to the feeds (ie., filter the feed in various ways), it’s graphical (no coding involved).
- He uses it to pull in feeds for faculty articles - yahoo pipes brings scopus and something else together into a single feed.

Google My Maps

Yahoo Design Pattern Library:
- a design knowledgebase
- full of best practices for web designers… cool

What is my IP?
www.whatismyipaddress.com
- simply tells you what your IP address is

The Rasterbator: takes images and blows them up big so you can make large banners…

Firefox web developer plugin - very cool

Darlene:

zamzar - web based file converter
gliffy - makes charts and flow charts… web based mapping tool
Firefox linkify
Firefox link checker
pixer.us - web based photo image editing tool
trailfire - web tours
Myxter Tones - custom downloadable ring tones
MyBlogLog - shows actual today’s stats… where your readers came from, what they viewed, create reports over time, narrow by just search results, etc. Wow.
Crazy Egg - click trough rates, most interesting - heat map - shows where the action is taking place on our web pages.. (dude, remember this…)
Swivel - data visualization - import data, create visual graphs.
Many Eyes - visualizations of data… some people have loaded gutenberg texts, and have done tag comparisons… wow.

Frank:

google webmaster tools: diagnostics, site statistics, etc… provides error messages that happened, links tab - shows how many links they have from other sites (using Google’s data), also shows where your pages are linked from…

Google site map - there’s a Google SiteMap Builder - it spiders through your site and creates a sitemap, finds link errors, etc.

oswd (open source web design): look at large number of stylesheets and design templates that are open source.

also showed open source clipart and images, and open source stock photography sites

gvisit - visitor map based on Google statistics…

last.fm: cool music site, mentioned the music suggestion tool it has

open source federated searching - dbWiz - Simon Frazer University - uses z39.50

Keystone ILS - federated search, link resolver, portal creation and management, harvesting metadata afrom remote repositories, etc. Hmm…

audience suggestion: grazr - displays rss feeds on your webpage via a widget

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3 Responses to “Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 1 - Webmaster Cool Tools”

  1. FIKSZ :: [ Fiatalos | Könyvtár | Szemlélet ] » Blog archívum » CIL 2007 on April 18th, 2007 3:16 am

    [...] Király eszközök webmestereknek [...]

  2. My (Library) Maps « The Letter Z on April 21st, 2007 6:44 pm

    [...] Maps in on library blogs, usually included in the ubiquitous lists of “Cool Web 2.0 features we just have to use in our library!!!!” I’d like to see more examples, though, of what libraries are [...]

  3. Debi K on October 16th, 2007 2:47 pm

    Thanks for including Gliffy on this list. We welcome any feedback you have based on your use of Gliffy. Thanks again~ debik (at) gliffy (dot) com

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