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Tips for Setting Up a Web Store

Setting up a retail outlet on the web is not an easy process. There is plenty you need to be aware of when it comes to launching an online store, from the initial site design, to the often-overlooked extras that will have customers knocking down your virtual door.

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Use RSS Feeds to Boost Your Web Traffic

We all know that the content writers are bringing their juice into social media nowadays, as people see Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms as ridiculously fresh, upbeat, and contemporary. Both are competing to be the best in content delivery, making these social networking sites an area for socialization and easier product exchange, a social slash business hub perfect for the growing online market.

Amongst the hustle brought about by too many content delivered in these sites, it is likely that the simple RSS is already forgotten, disabled and dead. But this is a wrong notion. As the RSS feeds are still coming on stronger than ever, and is still treated as one of the supreme in hot‐wiring the many thoughts of the general population brought together.

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Benefits of RSS on a Website

From a viewers perspective, an RSS nourish is a fantastic way to keep up with present details from a particular person, company, or company - and deciding upon up is all that is needed. Details are provided by RSS up-dates, which are available in many ways and on many gadgets, offering quickly obtainable details otherwise skipped through RSS up-dates.

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5 Reasons Why Social Media Buttons Hurt Nonprofit Websites

That little row of social media buttons has become a ubiquitous feature of most websites. After all, it is good to show off that you are social, and that there are channels where you can interact directly with stakeholders.

But is your website header or sidebar the best place to show that off?

Here are five reasons why having social media buttons on your nonprofits website might do more harm than good:

1) They send visitors away from your website




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Reabble Is a Web-Based RSS Reader Made for the Kindle

The Amazon Kindle is a great ereader, but it is not particularly feature-rich. Reabble is a simple little RSS reader optimized to work inside the Kindles experimental browser to make reading articles less of a chore.

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How to embed content from the web to your Google Site

As of December 2017, the new Google Sites lets you embed HTML and JavaScript, as well as other websites. That is a big change from a year ago when the new Google Sites mostly let you share items from Drive, YouTube, and a few other Google sources.

The changes make the new Google Sites an even more useful website and intranet site creation tool.

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Strange allies : Britain, France and the dilemmas of disarmament and security, 1929-1933 / Andrew Webster

Webster, Andrew, (Professor of European history), author




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Digital transformation: challenges and opportunities: 16th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2017, Seoul, South Korea, December 10, 2017: revised selected papers / Wooje Cho [and four others] (eds.)

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The Ecosystem of e-Business: Technologies, Stakeholders, and Connections: 17th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2018, Santa Clara, CA, USA, December 12, 2018, Revised Selected Papers / Jennifer J. Xu, Bin Zhu, Xiao Liu, Michael J. Shaw, Han Zhang, Ming Fan (ed

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U.S. Web Archiving Survey

You are subscribed to Web Archiving News for Library of Congress. This information has recently been updated, and is now available.

10/18/2011 11:50 AM EDT

The National Digital Stewardship Alliance Content Working Group is sponsoring a survey of organizations in the United States who are actively involved in or planning to archive content from the web. The goal of the survey is to better understand the landscape of web archiving activities in the United States, including what organizations or individuals are archiving, what types of web content are being preserved, the tools and services being used, and what type of access is being provided for researchers. The survey will close October 31, 2011.




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Iraq War Web Archive

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12/16/2011 04:20 PM EST

In 2003 the Library of Congress began archiving websites related to the Iraq War. The first phase of the collection, beginning on March 13, 2003 and ending June 30, 2003, is available for researchers. Included in the web archive are U.S. government sites, foreign government sites, public policy and political advocacy groups, educational organizations, religious organizations, support groups for military personnel, anti-war groups, sites that target children, and news sources.




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Indian General Elections 2009 Web Archive released

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01/19/2012 04:26 PM EST

This new web archive from the Library of Congress is a selected set of 57 web sites documenting the 2009 Indian General Elections, which were held in five phases between April 16 and May 13, 2009. Sites harvested as part of this project include candidate, government, national and state political party web sites.




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LC Web Archives Scheduled Maintenance today

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09/28/2012 09:23 AM EDT

The Library of Congress Web Archives will have a period of downtime today, September 28, from 9:30am ET (for approximately 4 hours) due to scheduled maintenance. We regret the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.




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New LC Web Archives Presentation

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06/24/2013 02:24 PM EDT

The Library of Congress has launched eight web archive collections in a new presentation format, which allows for easier searching alongside other format types. Read more about this and other new features in our recent announcement.




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Public Policy Topics Web Archive Launched

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06/25/2014 03:38 PM EDT

This collection is a selection of approximately 500 websites containing different viewpoints on a variety of American public policy topics. The sites in the collection were produced by domestic and some foreign political groups, community and religious organizations, advocacy groups, foreign and domestic news sources, independent websites and some government agency websites. The Public Policy Topics Web Archive is an ongoing collecting effort. This release includes sites that were harvested as early as January 2009 continuing through early 2011.




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Brazilian Presidential Election 2010 Web Archive Released

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07/21/2014 09:21 AM EDT

This web archive documents the Brazilian elections, which were held October 3, 2010. The president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was not allowed by law to run for another term, as he had already served two terms. So there was great interest in whether voters supported Lula's candidate (his current Chief of Staff), the candidate of the major opposition party, or even the Green Party candidate running on an environmental platform. The first round was held on October 3rd along with state & federal elections as part of the 2010 general election. Since no presidential candidate received 50 percent of the vote on October 3rd, a runoff was held on October 31st between the two candidates who received the most votes in the first round: Dilma Rousseff, PT-Partido dos Trabalhadores, and José Serra, PSDB-Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira.




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Election 2010 Web Archive Released

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09/26/2014 01:29 PM EDT

The United States Election 2010 Web Archive Archive is a selective collection of approximately 1,250 sites archived between July 2010 and December 2010. This is a collection of Web sites produced by congressional and gubernatorial candidates whose names appeared on ballots for the November 2, 2010 midterm election. In previous United States Election web archive collections the Library of Congress included websites of political parties, government, advocacy groups, bloggers, and other individuals and groups expressing relevant views. The 2010 midterm elections resulted in a shift in the House of Representatives with the Republican Party regaining majority control. Candidate campaign websites for 2010 featured links to (and from) social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and others --- the Library's web archive for Election 2010 typically includes such social media channels in the scope for each website's archiving in order to provide a fuller representation of how candidates presented themselves via the Internet to the electorate. The election took place on November 2, 2010.




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Sri Lankan Presidential and General Elections 2010 Web Archive Released

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11/21/2014 10:33 AM EST

The Library of Congress recently launched a web archive collection documenting the 2010 Sri Lankan Presidential and General Elections. The collection includes a selected set of 28 websites, include candidate, government, national, state and political party websites.




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Timor Leste Collection Web Archive Released

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12/04/2014 11:10 AM EST

The Library of Congress has released a selective collection of approximately 110 websites about the emergence of Timor Leste as an independent country following independence, declared in 2002. Many of the websites contain information about the move to independence, the struggle for self-determination, and post-independence developments. Timor publishes few printed works and the websites reflect an important source. The collection was developed by staff from the Library of Congress Jakarta Office and the Asian Division in Washington, D.C.






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Philippine General Elections 2010 Web Archive released

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03/13/2015 04:42 PM EDT

The Library of Congress has recently launched the Philippine General Elections 2010 Web Archive. The Philippines held its first national-level elections during the American period in 1907; the first presidential elections were held in 1935. The primary parties participating in the May 10, 2010 were Liberal Party, Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban), Lakas-Kampi, National People's Coalition (NPC), Bangon Pilipinas, Bagumbayan, Ang Kapatiran Party, along with independent. The crowded field of personalities and political families the elections led to high turnout that was eased by the introduction of automated systems. There were complaints about the electronic voting and possibilities of election fraud.

This web archive is part of a continuing effort by the Library's Web Archiving project to evaluate, select, collect, catalog, provide access to, and preserve digital materials for future generations of researchers.




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New Web Archive Collections Available

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05/22/2015 10:27 AM EDT

The Library of Congress has recently launched a significant amount of new Web Archive content on its Web site, including the United States Congressional Archive, Burma/Myanmar General Election 2010 Web Archive, Egypt 2008 Web Archive, Laotian General Election 2011 Web Archive, Thai General Election 2011 Web Archive, Vietnamese General Election 2011 Web Archive and the Winter Olympic Games 2002 Web Archive. A number of other collections have migrated to the new interface with this release as well, allowing Web Archives to be searched alongside other Library items. Read more about it on the Signal Blog!




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[ASAP] MAPPS: A Web-Based Tool for Metabolic Pathway Prediction and Network Analysis in the Postgenomic Era

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The Latest Research for Web Designers, April 2020

Although life hasn’t returned to normal yet, the web design and marketing space doesn’t seem to have been too badly disrupted — at least not with all the new research and surveys floating around. And thank goodness for that. If we can maintain some semblance of normalcy, I think we’ll all get through this crisis in good shape.




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Thanks to Covid-19, Website Accessibility Has Never Been More Important

The first global pandemic of the digital era is upon us. We’re living in unprecedented and uncomfortable times. For our senior citizens, these past several weeks have been particularly discomforting. According to the CDC, men and women over the age of 65 are significantly more likely to develop complications from COVID-19. As we seek to […]




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Japanese prints: the collection of Vincent van Gogh / Chris Uhlenbeck, Louis van Tilborgh, Shigeru Oikawa ; translations Dutch-English, Lynne Richards, Diane Webb

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Fever dream: a novel / Samanta Schweblin ; translated by Megan McDowell

Hayden Library - PQ7798.29.C5388 N8313 2017




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Mouthful of birds: stories / Samanta Schweblin ; translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell

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The webcam as an emerging cinematic medium / Paula Albuquerque

Hayden Library - PN1995.A43 2018




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WEBINAR: Extending Child Support Cooperation Requirements: The State Perspective




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Webinar: Learning Together to Prevent Homelessness for Youth and Young Adults with Child Welfare Involvement




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Webinar: Strengthening Principal Preparation Through On-the-Job Training

A key challenge for policymakers is creating a pipeline of principals who are prepared to serve as instructional leaders. Districts often use the assistant principal position as a training ground for new principals. Yet little is known about how to design and implement on-the-job training opportunities that prepare assistant principals to serve as principals.




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REL Webinar: Using Teacher Feedback in School Leader Evaluations

The goal of the webinar is to expand local and state leaders’ knowledge of teacher survey instruments to enhance the evaluation of school leaders.




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Webinar: Preparing Leaders to Make a Difference for Students and Schools

Recognizing that school leaders play a critical role in school performance, states and districts are rethinking how they prepare principals. But this retooling of preparation programs raises a number of important questions: What skills do new principals need? How can we identify aspiring principals with the potential to develop those competencies? And how can we use these insights to improve the training of leaders at all levels of the system, from teacher leaders to principal supervisors?




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Join Us and Partners for a Grantmakers for Education Webinar—Making the Case: Establishing Evidence to Support Practitioners, Strategy, and Outcomes

Interested in learning how to build more evidence into philanthropic practice? Join Mathematica, The Wallace Foundation, and the Afterschool Alliance for a Grantmakers for Education webinar.




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Sign Up for a Free Webinar on Improving Attendance in Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten

Chronic absenteeism is particularly high in the early grades, compared with elementary and middle school. For a young child to succeed and develop a strong foundation for learning, he or she must attend school regularly.




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SSI Youth Solutions Project: Informational Webinar for Applicants on the Call for Policy Proposals

Mathematica is seeking innovative ideas on how to help youth who receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) improve their employment outcomes as they transition to adulthood.




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Q-CCIIT: Measuring the Quality of Caregiver–Child Interactions: Free Webinar for Early Childhood Professionals

Mathematica will launch a groundbreaking new quality measurement observation tool, now available to the early childhood community (including program administrators, professional development providers, researchers, and others) during a webinar.




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Free Webinar: How States, Districts, and REL Mid-Atlantic Partner to Create New Diagnostic Measures Using Existing Data

This webinar highlights three research-to-practice partnerships between state and local policymakers and the Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic to address this challenge, connecting educators and policymakers with researchers who provide analytic support and help education agencies build capacity to conduct their own analyses.




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Pro CSS for high traffic Websites / Antony Kennedy, Inayaili de León

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Save the pixel : the art of simple web design / Ben Hunt

Hunt, Ben (Ben R.)




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Mobile Web 2.0 : developing and delivering services to mobile devices / edited by Syed A. Ahson, Mohammad Ilyas




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Scalability rules : 50 principles for scaling Web sites / Martin L. Abbott, Michael T. Fisher

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The enigma of web interfaces : cultural aspects of web site design / by Linda Lim Mei Luan

Lim, Linda Mei Luan




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Head first mobile web / Lyza Danger Gardner, Jason Grigsby

Gardner, Lyza Danger




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Programming the World Wide Web / Robert W. Sebesta

Sebesta, Robert W




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Sams teach yourself Microsoft Expression web 4 in 24 hours / Morten Rand-Hendriksen

Rand-Hendriksen, Morten




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Learning Web design : a beginner's guide to HTML, graphics, and beyond / Jennifer Niederst

Niederst Robbins, Jennifer




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Web design in a nutshell : a desktop quick reference / Jennifer Niederst

Niederst Robbins, Jennifer




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An integrated approach for content extraction, word segmentation and information presentation from Thai websites / Wigrai Thanadechteemapat

Thanadechteemapat, Wigrai




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Programming the World Wide Web / Robert W. Sebesta, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Sebesta, Robert W., author