10 Essential PAC Customizations

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10EssentialPACCustomizations
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Your customers are not comparing your site to
other library sites. How do you measure up
against the sites they go to regularly?
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Can you quickly pick out the professional sites
from the following pairs of sites?
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The first one or the second one?
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The first one or the second one?
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The first one or the second one?
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Internet users make up their minds about the
quality of a website in as little as 1/20th of a
second.
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1. Brand It
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Polaris Public Access Administration Guide 3.3 -
Page 111 See related screencast - changelogo.wmv
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• Blend

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CSS is Scary.
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Where to find the style sheet
BACK IT UP!!!
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The classes you will need to change.
.GradientL2D
.HeaderBranch
Library Branch
.GradientD2L
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Change from
.GradientL2D background-color e6edf4
filterprogidDXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient(
startColorStr'FFFFFF', endColorStr'6487db',
gradientType'1') .GradientD2L
background-color 000084 filterprogidDXImageTr
ansform.Microsoft.Gradient(startColorStr'000084'
, endColorStr'6487db', gradientType'1')
Change to
.GradientL2D background-color FAC866
.GradientD2L background-color FAC866
FAC866 is the color used in this example. Google
find hex color code for tools to find the
correct color if you dont know what code to use
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You might also need to change the color of the
text in the header that gives the library name.
.HeaderBranch color White font-size
16px font-weight bold
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• Now about those tabs

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Where to find the tabs
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tab_right_high.gif
tab_left_high.gif
tab_right.gif
tab_left.gif
TD.NavBar background-color e4e2cc
Same color as high tab
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• Whos Account?

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Where to find the xml file
ltstring strid"PACML_HEADER_1007"gt lt!CDATAMy
Accountgtlt/stringgt
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• The Portal Wars are over.

The Libraries Lost
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ltstring strid"PACML_NAV_LIBRARY_1014"gt lt!CDATA
Catalog Homegtlt/stringgt
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• Your Customers Are Not Looking for

MSNBC
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• Your Customers Are Not Looking for

Weather
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• Your Customers Are Not Looking for

Bestsellers that dont link to your catalog.
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You can turn off MSNBC, Weather and Rotating Book
Jackets in SA. Go to Profiles gt PowerPAC
MSNBC Headlines Enabled - select No.
MSNBC Weather Enable - select No.
Rotating best seller jacket on portal page-
select No.
See related screencast - PortalContent.wmv
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• Now look at all the space you have for your own
  content.

Use It
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Polaris Public Access Administration Guide 3.3 -
Page 124 See related screencast - Homecontent.wmv
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• Availability?

We changed it from this Local Availability 1
(of 1)     System Availability 2 (of 3)    to
this Copies at my library 1 (of 1) Copies
at all branches 2 (of 3)
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See related screencast - AvailabilityLables.wmv
or Polaris Public Access Administration Guide 3.3
Page 157 for instructions to change Availability
text in search results.
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• Librarians What?

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You can turn off Librarians View in SA. Go to
Profiles gt PowerPAC
Librarians (MARC) View Enable - select No.
See related screencast - LibrariansView.wmv
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Im happy to help. Feel free to contact me if
you have any questions, need any help or if you
just want to show me what you have done to make
your PAC more customer friendly.
Christine Pearsonchristinepearson_at_mcldaz.org 602-
652-3062