Week Eight:

REQUIRED READING NOTES

HTML Tutorial
http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/

• This website provided good examples on HTML and how to create my own webpage. 
• HTML - defined as the markup language for describing web documents.
• Stands for Hyper Text Markup Language -> a set of markup tags.
• HTML documents are described by HTML tags
• There were many easy to understand explanations and descriptions of HTML tags and the text that appears in webpage content.
• There have been many versions of HTML since 1991.
• The quiz was a helpful tool also for remembering various parts of the HTML process.
• many components such as how to italicize, how to break, how to create links, etc. were featured in the quiz
• The most helpful page on this site was the HTML Examples tab

HTML Cheatsheet
http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/02/html_cheatsheet/

• This webpage is definitely very handy as it contains the most common HTML tags available as well as the proper syntax to create them.
• I have printed this source out and plan to refer to it whenever I am in need of creating HTML.
• This information is also pertinent for when I will utilize libguides as a librarian.

Web Development with SAS by Example (3rd Ed.)
Chapter 2 - Introduction to HTML
books.google.com

• This chapter in this book is also an introduction to the hypertext markup language as well as formatting using style sheets.
• All markup languages use tags to annotate the document content.
• In HTML, there is a short list of standard tags that must be learned.
• Writing HTML can be tedious, as there is a lot repetition.
• The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the standard body responsible for using a stricter and cleaner reformulation known as Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
• XHTML is a family of current and future document types and modules that reproduce, subset, and extend HTML 4. 
• It must also conform to a Document Type Definition (DTD) for XML-based Webpages.
• Web browsers use the markup tags to determine how to display the document.
• This chapter examines the use of style sheets to create a uniform appearance for a Web site by separating the page content from the presentation.
• it also simplifies Web page maintenance.

"Beyond HTML: Developing and Re-Imagining Library Web Guides in a Content Management System"
by Doug Goans, Guy Leach, and Teri M.Vogel
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2234d9w2

• This is a case study that developed to report on the content management system designed to manage 30 web-based research guides developed by the subject liaison librarians at the Georgia State University Library
• Web development librarians with assistance from the web programmer designed a system using MySQL and ASP.
• liaison team gave input on the system through rigorous testing and assisted with the design of the templates that control the layout of the content on the guides.
• This paper as intended to contribute to a small, but growing collection of CMS (content management system) case studies.
• covers technical, functional, and managerial developments of a CMS while addressing the practical user factors that might get lost in the process.
• Web guides were diverse on visual levels. 
• each librarian used different colors, fonts, and layout designs.
• there was a lack of training among the librarians to address various web page and site-building skills
• A survey was conducted to note observations on web development, particularly to shift away from a static HTML content delivery system.
• In a CMS, the content is disconnected from the layout and design elements of the page.
• content may be defined variously in however the organization chooses.

• Some libraries adopt CMS technology because they want to reduce the 'gatekeeper' effect by eliminating barriers that limit library staff from contributing to the website.
• The continuation of this case study becomes a little foreign to me, as I continued to read, I wasn't sure what the most important aspects of the paper were pertinent to me as as student.

Thoughts 

All of the readings for this week provide very detailed information on HTML. This information seems useful as librarians are going to be expected to have new technological skills as the Library 2.0 continues to expand. I know that personally, in my placement this semester, I am required to learn the inner-workings of LibGuides. My classmate Mychele and I are required to learn how to edit and access HTML and other web-based information in order to correctly submit Libguides. HTML is definitely one of the most important aspects of Technology and information technologies.