There are a number of templates you can use (or you can design your own). On the start page you can have up to four columns and a nunmber of browse boxes within each column. You can also add tabs (think tabbed browsing a la firefox, or IE 7) to further customise your page.
In a library setting I think this would be a very useful tool. For example the first screen the user sees on the library pc might include:
- a search box for the library catalogue
- a list of upcoming events (with a search option)
- a list of feeds from the library blog(s)
- todays weather
- todays news headlines
- google search
- link to online databases
- link to ebooks
- podcasts
- youtube
- flickr
- and so much more
As with all this type of thing the hardest part is the setting up - deciding what to put on the page, how to arrange it, and what it should look like. Once those decisions are made it's easy.
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