Books and Bytes: A UWF Libraries Weblog

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Books and BytesA UWF Libraries Weblog

• UWF Library Digital Learning Technology

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Weblog Placement on Site
Click on title link to view blog. Click on RSS
buttons to subscribe to either the content or all
comments.
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Main Navigation Areas
Blog interactive monthly calendar Click to
previous months
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Calendar Usage
For date by date posts, click on the shadowed
dates to see entries in November.
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Blogroll Entries
Blogroll entries link to Library Web pages. Quad
topics About, Research, Find, and Services are
represented.
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Categories
Categories link to posts relating to specific
topics. Visible on the right as a list and under
each post as tags
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Archival Categories
If you click on Special Collections as a
Category, blog entries with the tag Special
Collections are provided as archives.
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Social Bookmarking Links
Social Bookmarking Links at the end of each post
for convenience.
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Social Bookmarks
Stumble Upon
Technorati
Del.icio.us
BlinkBits
Bloglines
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RSS Syndication
RSS Feeds Universal symbol for RSS, four common
feed aggregators, and Help.
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What is a feed?
A feed is a standardized format that allows you
to subscribe to the content with an aggregator.
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Why Care About Feeds?
Time and convenience. Read updates from all of
your favorite Web sites from one Web page.
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How to Subscribe?
Use one of the top four aggregators, or even
Microsoft IE7. Web-based for convenience, many
also have search engines.
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Bloglines Aggregator
Bloglines is one of the news readers you can
easily set up to subscribe to the library blog.
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Bloglines Aggregator
www.bloglines.com Click
register to begin.
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Bloglines Aggregator
Copy the blog url in the box and click subscribe.
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Bloglines Aggregator
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How to View a Comment
To View a comment, click on the Comment link
under any blog entry.
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How to Post a Comment
To post, click on the same area or No
Comments To post, complete all required entries
and Click on Submit Comment.
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Search Blog
Type keywords in search box and click search.
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Future Template Possibilities

• Pages
• Categories
• Flickr Photostream

• RSS Syndication
• Site search engine located in header

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Other Possibilities

• Categories

• Blogroll

• RSS Syndication

• Meta

• Site search engine locate in header

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2008 Books and Bytes Design

• A smart 2-column, blue and gray theme
• Closest to University of West Florida Templates
• Has Sidebar Arrangement where you can drag and
  drop widgets

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Excellent Feature Rich Possibilities

• Calendar
• Blogroll
• Categories
• Site search engine
• RSS Syndication
• Archives

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Submitting Content

• 3 5 paragraphs either in an email or a word
  document
• An image
• A link to where you obtained the image
• Send via email to Stephen or Ray

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Thank You!Questions?
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XML, RSS, and Atom?
RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, and Atom are
eXtended Markup Languages.