Library web development : beyond tips and tricks / Jason Bengtson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bengtson, Jason, author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Library Web sites--Design.

Library Web sites.

Web applications in libraries.

Web site development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 134 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Chicago : ALA Editions, 2019.

Summary:

"Plenty of resources offer you snippets of code and a variety of tutorials can show you the solutions to web development problems. But it's much more valuable (and a better investment of your time!) to learn some core problem-solving skills. This book shares key rules and strategies that will empower you to become a confident coder and web developer, ready to think through whatever complications present themselves. Bengtson, an expert developer, describes 11 challenges typical of a library setting and ones he has faced himself. He then walks you through his thinking, with explorations of alternate approaches, as he works toward a solution. As you follow along, you'll gain wisdom involving scenarios such as integrating a reader app with Dspace; tips when using a public API; troubleshooting a Google Analytics Event hook in a new application; building a database from a collection of CSV files; collecting information from a university's web pages to display in the library website; and moving mass quantities of information to the next page of your app. Armed with the conceptual foundation outlined in this book, you'll be ready to meet the web development challenges you face in your library."--Publisher.

Contents:

The problems we need to solve

Tracking just about anything in the client

Moving data between your web pages

Wrestling same origin policy (or, why won't my app read this data?)

Using FIFOs to extract data without an API

Using sideways development to improve web interfaces

Pulling data from multiple sources for a single interface

Making a mobile-friendly image map

Using server-side scripting to reshape troublesome data

A few last rules to follow.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780838918449

9780838918425

0838918425

9780838918432

0838918433

9780838918302

0838918301

OCLC:

1151008937