ANLTC Web Development Toolkit

Friday 24th April 2009 at the
Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) Library, Aungier Street, Dublin 2

The course is directed at library staff involved in editing and maintaining library web pages.

Library Web pages present an image of the library and provide valuable information to your users. If you have responsibility for maintaining Library web pages such as websites, subject pages, WebOPACs, blogs, wikis etc. and would benefit from useful tools to help you improve them, then this course is for you. The course will give you the skills to use freely available web based tools which will help you to enhance and develop your web presence.
The course will include hands on practical exercises. Topics to be covered
include: an overview of managing web pages, the top 10 dos and don’ts, practical tips on fonts, colours, separating design and content, using images and getting your pages noticed and used.

The second part of the course will involve practical hands on sessions on Web Development Toolkit which will utilize some of the Firefox suite of extensions for Web Development. Finally the course will include a short session on using Google Analytics on your web pages to gather usage statistics. Course notes and documentation will be distributed on the day.

The course is presented by Neil Andrews, Head of Department, School of Hospitality, DIT, Cathal Brugha St. Dublin 1; Katherine Kenny, Acting Web Administrator, DIT, Aungier St, Dublin 2; Fiachra Mangan, Library Services, DIT, Aungier St, Dublin 2.

The course outline can be viewed at http://www.anltc.ie/anltc200905prog.htm and the application form at http://www.anltc.ie/application200905.htm

Note: Numbers are limited on this course. Closing date for registration is Thursday 2nd April 2009 - so get your application in now so you won't be disappointed. Get approval from your line manager before sending me your application via email.