[WEB4LIB] how to get it all done

[Araby Y Greene]

Glasshaus publishes some good readable books in their "Tools of the
Trade" series about databases, CSS, web forms, CMS, and
Dreamweaver/Contribute. 

I would recommend:
Auld, Chris, et al. Practical Database Design for the Web. Glasshaus,
2002. 1-904151-20-5. 
In spite of the 2002 pub. Date, this book is generic enough to be very
useful. It's a good database and platform neutral intro to SQL.

Anything by Scott Mitchell (4GuysFromRolla.com fame) on ASP or ASP.Net
is well written, understandable, and proofread.

-araby
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-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Karen Davis
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 11:05 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] how to get it all done

Unfortunately, all I know how to do is create stand-alone web pages. I
can see that I'm going to be swamped if I continue this way. I don't
have a content management system for staff to use (e.g. Contribute).
Each new set of pages I consider creating is now making me *cringe*. Too
much repetitive work! How can I do all this as efficiently as possible?
I

I've recommended Contribute 3 to help distribute the content maintenance
work among department staff (who are willing ot do it), but am told
there are security issues which make it unfeasible, since we don't have
an in-house staging server (just ftp to an ISP). 

You all know a great deal more than I do, so, if you could suggest how I
should recommend that this be set up to run efficiently, I would be
grateful! What do I need?

Thanks again very much for your advice.

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Current tools and setup for the web site: 
* Dreamweaver MX 2004, Photoshop 6
* one user account at an ISP with ftp connection
* Forms handled with a Perl script (maintained by a techie as necessary,
not me)
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Karen Davis, Coordinator
Center for Community Networking & 
Web Administrator
Lawrence Public Library
707 Vermont Street
Lawrence, KS 66044
785.843.3833 ext. 104

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