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Blogger Toolbox: 100+ Tools and Themes. WordPress receives a lot of love from the blogging community, but Blogger.com is still a perfectly viable blogging platform for the majority of people. In an effort to help those devoted Blogger users, we've gathered up the best of our lists about tools, themes and shortcuts for your preferred platform. Take a look through and you are sure to find something that will help you, even if you didn't know you were looking for it! Tell us what you think of these and any we might have missed, and let us know about your Blogger blog in the comments. Free Template Resources 5ColumnTemplate.Blogspot.com - This site only offers one template with five variations, but it isn't every day you see a five column theme for any blogging platform, and it is actually pretty clean in presentation. AllBlogTools.com - A collection of over 100 templates from an assortment of a lot of smaller designers.
Blogger-Templates.Blogspot.com - Keeps a small selection of top-notch Blogger themes up and running. Me & My Friends. N.Design Studio. Talis Developer Network. Web 2.0 Directory : eConsultant. Software Development in the Real World: Best of the Best Web 2.0 Web Sites. Zotero - The Next-Generation Research Tool. Ann Arbor District Library. LibX Firefox Extension for Libraries. Web Browser Extensions.
Extending the capabilities of various web browsers so that they are better able to integrate with library content.
Appropriate topics include both new browser extensions, as well as information about how to create them. Bookmarklets are pieces of JavaScript code, packaged and used as browser bookmarks. These should in theory work in any browser that supports JavaScript. NOTE: JavaScript should not be confused with Java. Despite the (intentionally confusing) names, these are two completely different programming languages. Making Bookmarklets Bookmarklets from webreference.com Make Search Bookmarklet Tool from bookmarklets.com Karin Dalziel's instructions on how to create a Firefox search extension for any library using any OPAC by using the ffirefox "Add to search bar" extension.
Library-Related Bookmarklets The most famous bookmarklet, and the one which launched the idea of better browser integration with libraries, is Jon Udell's LibraryLookup. General Bookmarklets Making User Scripts. Home. The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005 (Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog) ProgrammableWeb: Mashups and the Web as Platform. Userscripts.org - Universal Repository.
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