Summer Reading Finale

Don’t forget -- SUMMER READING PARTY AT PIONEER WATERLAND PARK on Friday, August 15, 1997 sponsored by NOLA Regional Library system and your local public library for Summer Readers. The park is located at 10661 Kile Road, Chardon, Ohio -- phone 216-285-0909 or 216-951-7507 -- and is open from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. rain or shine. Bring the entire family. Special admission price of $5.95 for each family member -- Children under 40" tall admitted FREE. Food is available at the park or pack a picnic lunch. For special admission price, you must bring a flyer (available from your local library) or write "NOLA" on a piece of paper and hand it to the person at the gate. There are 110 prizes to be raffled starting at 2:00 p.m. including a ten speed mountain bike and three Cleveland Indian tickets to the August 17 game.

Items submitted by: Judi Burdette - 09/11/98 08:32 AM

New Frontpage Beta Looking Good

Microsoft has released a new beta version of it's popular HTML authoring tool; Frontpage. You can download the beta or send in a request for the CDROM. I have played with the program a little bit and am fairly impressed. One of the great new features for library folk will be Themes. Similar to functionality found in NetObjects Fusion, Themes are stylized formats and templates where headers, buttons and graphic splashes all follow a thematic look. This makes it easy for non-designers to create great looking sites. There is support now for Dynamic HTML, Style Sheets and some new WebBot-type components. One note; because we are hosting so many member's sites on the NOLA webserver, we will not be adding the FP98 server extensions until they get out of beta. This will limit some of the functionality, but in the meantime, you can begin to play with the program and get a feel for it. I installed it along side my FP97 and both coexist and work fine.

Netscape Fires Back at Microsoft With 700 Push Channels

Netscape yesterday announced the release of it's long awaited Netcaster product for providing "push" technologies. Tightly integrated with the new Communicator 4 suite, Netcaster automatically gathers information according to a user's preferences. Check out a full article here.

Advanced Webmastering Class Slated for September 18th

NOLA is pleased to offer a new advanced level to our popular Webmastering class. The first session will be on Sept 18 at the Girard Free Library. Sign up here. If you already registered for the Aug 21 offering, you will be automatically registered for the Sept 18th. We will contact you to work out scheduling conflicts.

Items submitted by: Kenneth S. Bell - 09/11/98 08:32 AM
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