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One Site Fits All: Making Your Library’s Web Site Ready for Wireless

Learn how to implement web standards to make your library's website accessible, optimized for wireless devices, and user-friendly. Explore the benefits of XHTML, semantic markup, and transformable layouts for a better browsing experience. Get started today!

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One Site Fits All: Making Your Library’s Web Site Ready for Wireless

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  1. One Site Fits All:Making Your Library’s Web Site Ready for Wireless

  2. Why Do We Need Standards? • “Browser War”: Microsoft and Netscape • Proprietary HTML code leading to pages that say “best viewed with…” or “optimized for…” • Wireless portals, “printer friendly” pages

  3. What Are Web Standards? • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines • HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.1 • CSS1, CSS2 • Any other W3C technologies

  4. HTML versus XHTML What does XHTML look like? First a non-standards-based HTML page, then a standards-based XHTML page.

  5. Sample HTML:

  6. HTML The HTML page: -- is overly complicated and messy -- where is the page’s content?

  7. Sample XHTML:

  8. XHTML The standards-based page: -- has a clear, logical structure.-- has readable content in code layout. -- has semantic markup and enhanced content. -- is friendly to assistive software.

  9. Logical Structure • <div id=“sitemast”> • <div id=“content”> • <div id=“navigation”> • <div id=“footer”>

  10. Semantic Markup – Enhanced Content • Headlines • Block quotes • Paragraphs • Lists • Citations • Acronyms • Abbreviations • Title attributes

  11. Design Philosophy: • User centered, not designer centered. • Transformable pages optimize for users and user agents. • HTML code is minimal and semantic. • Documents are structured and ordered logically. • Layout (CSS) is contained in a separate file.

  12. Transformability with PC Browsers W. Frank Steely Library <library.nku.edu> • First the “Default” layout; • Then the “ADA” layout; • Finally, the “Print Preview.”

  13. Home Page

  14. Second Level Page

  15. “View”  “Use Style”

  16. Same Page, New Layout

  17. Scroll Down

  18. Print Preview

  19. We Have Seen: • Multiple style sheets for ADA purposes. • Access keys defined. • Text not represented by graphics. • Logical document structure. • Printer friendly pages.

  20. Transformability for Wireless Media type = “handheld” • Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) • Cell Phones

  21. PDA:about a year old

  22. PDA:about six months old

  23. PDA:about six months old

  24. Cell Phones Year old 3 months old

  25. Getting Started Use better browsers: • Mozilla 1.3+ <www.mozilla.org> • Opera 7+ <www.opera.com> • Safari 1.2+ (Mac) <www.apple.com/safari/>

  26. Bibliography Before you build, read: • Bickner: Web Design on a Shoestring • Clark: Designing Accessible Websites • Meyer: Eric Meyer on CSS • Pilgrim: www.diveintoaccessibility.org • Zeldman: Designing with Web Standards

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