[WEB4LIB] Re: learning to deal with a server

[Gillian Wiseman]

I want to thank everyone who has sent me such excellent advice in the last
day. I am fairly certain I will end up using a windows NT/iis server setup.
I know just enough HTML to get into trouble, but am already learning more
setting up my own hobby site from home. I'll be using dreamweaver for that
end of things.

What the library hopes to do is to create several small pages/sites for
things such as our genealogy society, the friends group, the teen
readers/volunteers club. We will not be running the whole library site
(although that's a goal for the future!). Each site would only be a few
pages, updated maybe monthly. We also have visions of scanning in our local
history photo collection, and of creating an online index to our local
newspaper (at least the obits etc... which we already index as part of our
community module in the library catalog (nobody uses it because it is so
dismal)).

The city IT dept will be helping with initial setup; they'll be my fallback,
and I do have an assistant of sorts. One of our catalogers has a 2 year
degree in computer networking and will be helping me in her "spare time".
Fortunately I can also call on our local/regional library system for advice
and maybe even some training.

Thanks again, and don't stop! I'm sure I'll be asking dumb questions here
for a long time to come.

Gillian Wiseman
Electronic Resources Librarian
Waco-McLennan County Library