Monthly Archives: November 2007

i <3 making webpages

Sometimes I get infatuated with certain webpages I’ve thrown together so I’m going to post about this one. I knew when I saw the WordPress theme Fluid Blue on The Liminal Librarian that I absolutely had to use it for the NPPL site. It is widget friendly and I like the way it [...]

library gameshow!

Scott Jeffries, Reference Librarian at Dallas Baptist University writes,
For four afternoons in November, the Dallas Baptist University Vance Memorial Library hosted their Are You As Smart As A Freshman? event. Patterned after the popular game show Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?, this event had 2nd-4th year students competing for prizes by answering questions [...]

report spam?

Also, who dates emails like that? Out of touch library vendors?

testing QuickTimePostWPP

After learning that my QuickTime embed wasn’t playing nicely with Firefox I tried to write some better code for it. It turns out that WordPress dosn’t play nicely with well formed QT code if under Options –> Writing, the “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” box is checked.
In lieu of deselecting [...]

click-a-story two

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UPDATE: A few people said that the video crashed their browsers. I’ve taken it out of this post and put it on a separate page. I’ll have to sort it out. Any reports would be appreciated!
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Way back in the day at the TFML some YS librarians recorded stories, I put them [...]