How I Built a Website For $16 in Chocolate laura crossett Internet Librarian 2008 newrambler.net/lisdom/il2008

How I Built a Website

For $16 in Chocolate

laura crossett

Internet Librarian 2008

newrambler.net/lisdom/il2008

Somebody said that it couldn't be done. . .

what I wanted: easy to update standards compliant free RSS good looking did I mention free?

Somebody said that it couldn't be done. But she with a chuckle replied. . .

Somebody said that it couldn't be done.

But she with a chuckle replied. . .

what I had: no money minimal tech skills

what i had: time flexibility freedom

what i had:

time flexibility freedom

That maybe it couldn't, but she would be one Who wouldn't say so till she'd tried.

what i did:

early mock-up

So she buckled right up With a trace of a grin on her face. If she worried, she hid it.

So she buckled right up

With a trace of a grin on her face.

If she worried, she hid it.

what happens if I. . .?

"hmm, I guess that wasn't the right color choice. . ."

got help Twitter, IM, Pay IT Forward

usability testing

She started to sing as she tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and she did it.

She started to sing

as she tackled the thing

That couldn't be done,

and she did it.

what I ended up with:

the web team!

this is not to say there were no problems

Credits: One stanzas of “It Couldn't Be Done” adapted (with a gender change) from a poem by Edgar A. Guest flying machine drawing: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?T001820 Spencer Tracy in “Northwest Passage”: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1551039 Women at work on C-47 Douglas cargo transport: http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179137415 LSW dogs photo by Cindi Trainor http://www.flickr.com/photos/trucolorsfly/2397151892 Thanks to my LSW friends, internet librarians all.

Credits:

One stanzas of “It Couldn't Be Done” adapted (with a gender change) from a poem by Edgar A. Guest

flying machine drawing:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?T001820

Spencer Tracy in “Northwest Passage”:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1551039

Women at work on C-47 Douglas cargo transport:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179137415

LSW dogs photo by Cindi Trainor

http://www.flickr.com/photos/trucolorsfly/2397151892

Thanks to my LSW friends, internet librarians all.