http://userslib.com Sun, 11 May 2008 13:13:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some great web site coding advice from the Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) http://userslib.com/2008/05/11/design-coding-rap/ LOLcats is so 2007... Now it's all about the LOL manuscripts! [LOL Manuscripts | via NotCot] http://userslib.com/2008/04/23/i-can-has-manuscripts/ The Future of Books Here's an interesting student project by Kyle Bean (illustrator, designer and maker of 'things') [link | via notcot] Asterick Bookends By Blank Project [link | via swissmiss] Nicholas Jones [via the Design Files | see also] http://userslib.com/2008/04/16/books-art-or-design/ I was talking to some folks today about our library website redesign plans and various web design trends... One of the topics of conversation was the big footer trend. Our web designer described it as kind of a "mullet" (you know, business in front, party in back) because it lets you ... http://userslib.com/2008/04/11/footer-mullet/ The Powerhouse Museum in Australia has just joined the Library of Congress to be the second member of the Commons on Flickr. And BTW - Seb Chan's Powerhouse blog Fresh + New(er) is one of my favorites and a fantastic source for interesting discussions about digital media, access systems, interface design, ... http://userslib.com/2008/04/07/powerhouse-museum-joins-the-commons-on-flickr/ I collect. Here are some of my collections from this week. All are things I found interesting, but don't necessarily feel like writing a whole post about. I usually like to give credit when I link to things I found via other people... but I've been lax in keeping track. ... http://userslib.com/2008/03/27/link-barf/ If you could only have one single feature on your library web page... what would it be? Search, right? Except library searches don't usually work like Google (yet)... That doesn't mean library websites should hide their search boxes, all tucked away in the corner. Here are a few lovelies I thought ... http://userslib.com/2008/03/26/library-web-design-search-box-round-up/ Wise words from Chip Kidd http://userslib.com/2008/03/13/wise-words-from-chip-kidd/ Over at the del.icio.us blog, there's a post about how they've noticed that librarians & educators are using delicious in interesting ways. Over the past year or two, I’ve been delighted to notice educators and librarians embracing Delicious both as a way to share bookmarks with each other and a way ... http://userslib.com/2008/03/13/delicious-noticed-that-librarians-like-delicious/ The University of Michigan Library just released our very own home-grown tagging tools. Now users can tag library web pages, catalog records, image collections, and some of the Scholarly Publishing Office's electronic journals. More access systems will add tagging eventually. Any tag or user can be subscribed to using RSS. ... http://userslib.com/2008/02/29/new-library-tagging-tool/