[WEB4LIB] libraries managing city web sites

[Daniel Messer]

    Ohhh man, I wish I could say I did. That could be so nifty if a city
turned over its info and documents to the one place in the city that knows
how to catalog, file, and post them to the web in an easy to find manner.
My experience with city websites, especially our city's website, is that
they have a basic understanding of HTML, a basic understanding of web
design, and a basic understanding of FrontPage or some like programme.
Couple these basic understandings with an overworked clerk who hasn't quite
figured out e-mail yet and you've got yourself a recipe for a website so
disastrous it'd make Ms. Finklestein's third grade website project look
like Amazon.com.
    If you reply off list, I humbly request that you cc the e-mail to me as
well. Maybe it'll provide some ideas. Change is a good thing, now you just
have to convince city hall of that.

Dan

Stephen Sweet wrote:

> Does anyone know of any public libraries that host/develop/manage their
> city's web site?
>
> Stephen Sweet
> Systems Analyst & Webmaster
> Hartford Public Library
> Phone: 860 522-4888 x6469
> FAX: 860 722-6900

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Mondai wa
The subject in question...
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Daniel Messer, Technology Instructor
Yakima Valley Regional Library
102 N 3rd St Yakima, WA 98901
(509) 452-8541 x712
dmesser at yvrls.lib.wa.us
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