Build It Once

Build It Once is designed for the staff member faced with the challenge of creating high-quality online exhibitions with limited exhibit experience, technical support and resources. It is a book of practices that will enable users to create web presentations that are straightforward, well designed and potentially award winning.

While online exhibitions vary in complexity, basic tenets apply to the design of fluid, descriptive, and easily navigable displays.Build It Once: A Basic Primer for the Creation of Online Exhibitions explains these principles, as well as the basic structure for a flexible, easy-to-use exhibition format. Procedures describing how to design a simple format; how to create image and text files to populate the presentation; and how to develop handcrafted web pages used to display each item with its descriptive text or metadata are all included in this text. An overview of available technologies that can simplify and shorten the task is also provided.

Build It Once will help readers create a reliable and easily modified exhibition format that follows the best basic standards and practices. Designed for the staff member faced with the challenge of creating high-quality online exhibitions with limited exhibit experience, technical support, and resources, this book of practices will enable even the most neophyte user to create web presentations that are straightforward, well designed, and potentially award winning.

Part 1 Acknowledgments
Part 2 Foreword
Part 3 Introduction
Part 4 Define the Exhibition
Part 5 Select the Equipment
Part 6 Design the Format
Part 7 Create the Structure
Part 8 Identify the Table Components
Part 9 Build the Web Page
Part 10 Advanced Topics
Part 11 Online Exhibition Tutorial
Part 12 Appendix A Leab Exhibition Awards Evaluation Criteria
Part 13 Appendix B Digitization Glossary
Part 14 Appendix C Accessibility Guidelines
Part 15 Bibliography
Part 16 Index
Part 17 About the Author