[Web4lib] dreamweaver-screen and css questions

[McHale, Nina]

Hi, all,

I would also much rather pose these kinds of questions here than
anywhere else, and I agree with Jonathan that they're relevant and
welcome. A lot librarians, myself included, have come by web skills
secondarily, and did not have a whole lot of formal training. This makes
it hard to ask for help in other forums out there; for example, I had a
*horrible* experience posting to a non-library academic webmaster list.
I posted a simple code question, and got flamed all over the place--no
one actually answered my question! Maybe it's just because of what we
all do for a living, but I've always enjoyed that fact that EVERY
question gets answered here, and in a civil manner as well. Sure, we get
into it now and again, but I've never been afraid to ask a technical
question here, and I hope everyone else feels the same.

Nina

Nina McHale, MA/MSLS
Web Services Librarian
Auraria Library

Serving the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences
Center-Downtown Campus,
Metropolitan State College
and the Community College of Denver

1100 Lawrence Street
Denver, Colorado 80204
303-556-4729

nina.mchale at cudenver.edu

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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Gorman
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 3:59 PM
Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] dreamweaver-screen and css questions


Actually,

I think this email list can be helpful with CSS questions as well.
After all, it's supposed to be for web stuff for libraries ;).  CSS
certainly fits better than thumbdrives for this list.  There's resources
out there for those who do html/css and other types of development, but
we're more friendly than some of them ;).  I'm also pretty sure we have
enough web/css guru's here that we can answer a good number of
questions.

Of course, they might get a better response for CSS questions on that
list, I don't know how they treat newbies.  The archives/faq are
probably a highly useful source even without going to that list.  I'm
not a member of the CSS list so I can't say for sure what the response
is like.

How effective this list is for those learning Dreamweaver, that's where
I'm a little less sure.  Not that I want to drive anyone away, but
questions about Dreamweaver might get answered a little quicker and more
likely to be accurate if you find a forum, mailing list, or chat group
dedicated to Dreamweaver.  Or if you're confused about the stylesheet
it's generating, posting it like Megan mentioned is probably the best
way to get help.  After all, those without Dreamweaver can still help
with html/css questions.




Jonathan T. Gorman
Research Information Specialist
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
216 Main Library - MC522
1408 West Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217) 244-4688


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