Pratibha's Wednesday Morning Blog

Tuesday, 15 October 2013

catch-up class - 16th October

Hi everyone,

Today I am enjoying the catch-up class at home. I just came across a video in the age and I love it. It really made my day beautiful. I hope you will love it too...

Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Important Features of Library Websites

Important features of any library websites are:

User friendly interface
The websites interface should be user friendly. It should be easier for users to navigate into different tabs and find desired information. If the website is very complex and user can't find information easily it is unlikely that user will revisit the website or may even get bad impression about library itself.

Secure and reliable
The website should be secure for its patrons to use. If the information provided by patrons for accessing library resources is not secure then the website is not reliable and people don't want to use it.

Informative
Library website should be able to provide all necessary information about library to its patrons. People should get information about what books are available in library, how to become a member, how to borrow/renew books, fines and everything they need to know about using the library.

Blog
Library websites should have different section that informs about the events happening in library and other library related news. That can be done by creating a different blog.

Multiple Language support

It is good to have a website that supports multiple language so that people with non-english background can easily understand its contents.

Why organisations use blogging software?

Many organisation prefer using blogging software because:

They are free
Usually they are for free unless we need very big and professional websites for big businesses.

User-friendly
Websites created using blogger and wordpress are simple and easy to use for the users.

Easily customizable
Easy to change template, color, font and look of the website

Esay to maitain
As the templates in these websites are developed by experts for normal users, they are easy to maintain.

Reliable
As blogger and wordpress are used widely all over the world for personal and business use, they are reliable.

Pros and Cons of free softwares

Pros:
No licensing cost as it's free.
Easy to use
It's easy to manage as we can install free and open source software anywhere.
As anyone can edit the code, it is continuously developing, no need to wait for next release to come if software has some bug.

Cons:
Though it is free, we need to pay for better version
They may come with unnecessary advertisements that is not included in licensed software
Users are in risk of downloading virus while trying to use free software as both are free.
Free software do not come with guarantee, so they can be gone any time
No post download support for free software
Fewer advanced features