Library Website Tools

Accessibility
Blog software
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Drupal
FTP
Images, Graphics and Color Resources
Library Content Management System (LCMS)
Link Checking
RSS feed builder widget
Secure Shell client (PuTTY)
Statistics
Templates
Wiki software

Accessibility

• WAVE - Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
  A free web accessibility evaluation tool provided by WebAIM

Drupal
Drupal is an open source content management system that Library web folk may use to create and maintain Library websites. Contact webman if you would like to test drive Drupal.

• Drupal handbooks
• Lullabot - Drupal podcasts, etc.
• Using Drupal - via Safari books online
• Berkeley Drupal Users Group
• Drupal videos on YouTube

FTP (File Transfer Protocol

• WS_FTP Pro (idata) - FTP a file to the Library Web with WS_FTP Pro (get password from webman)
• WS_FTP Pro (odata) - FTP a file from the Library Web to a staff computer with WS_FTP Pro (get password from webman)
• Netscape Composer - FTP a file to the Library Web with Netscape Composer (get password from webman)
• FTP session - Create and save an FTP session with WS_FTP Pro
• WinSCP - How to use
• Download WinSCP (Secure FTP) - Windows XP
• Download WinSCP (Secure FTP) - Windows 2000

Images, Graphics and Color Resources

• Google Image Search
• Image Size Tips and Tricks
• Library Web Graphics Gallery
  Textual category headers, navigation bars, navigation graphics, and bullets that are on the Library Web server and can be used in Library Web documents.
• Color Charts - web safe color charts:
  BigNoseBird.com
  VisiBone Webmaster's Color Laboratory
• UC Berkeley Gateway website colors
• UC Berkeley images
  The UC Berkeley Identity Resources website includes downloadable images of the campus, as well as the UC and UCB Seals.

Link Checking

• Use Verity to find a link on a Library Web page.
• Use Verity to find a word on a Library Web page.
• Use Google to find pages anywhere in the Web world that link to yours.
  (Examples: www.lib.berkeley.edu/BIOS/elec.html, or www.lib.berkeley.edu/BIOS/):
• LinkLint - the Library Web link checker.

Secure Shell client - PuTTY

• PuTTY - How to use
• Download PuTTY - Windows XP
• Download PuTTY - Windows 2000

Statistics

• Google Analytics
• wusage
  Instructions to help you find wusage Library Web Statistics
  wusage Library Web Statistics

Templates

• HTML Templates
  Templates for creating new documents for the Library Web.