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Step 1. Create a draft web page.
This will be the web page that will be called by the active desktop in Step 2.
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Use any html editor, or text editor to create your web page. This isn't intended to be a web tutorial, so I am assuming that you already know how to do mark-up or have a library webmaster who can create a basic page. |
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The web page html file must be uploaded to a web server, i.e. the same server as your library web site. However it is not necessary to link to this page from anywhere. |
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The hardest part is getting consensus on what are the important points to include on the page. Don't think of this as a regular page on your web-site. More like signage that you would put up near your reference computers. For example: Here is our ref pod blog web page. |
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Leave enough "empty" space so that you can come back later and add the .RSS scripts to call your blog posting. |
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OPTIONAL: Add a "client pull" to your web page so that it refreshes every couple of minutes. That way if you add a posting to your blog, the web page will automatically refresh itself and the latest postings will display.
Example: <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="180[; charset=iso-8859-1" url="www2.potsdam.edu/hebertm/refpod_template">
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