Our New Libraries Learn Site is Here!

The Colorado State Library is celebrating the launch of a new website that brings together a wide variety of learning opportunities in one easy-to-use place. Libraries Learn was designed to… (Search hits: 0 in body, 1 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 50)

PDFs and Website Accessibility – Part 2

Does your website have links to download PDF documents? Do you make a really sweet looking event calendar and upload it to your library website as a PDF? Unless authored… (Search hits: 5 in body, 1 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 55)

Lowry Landfill Superfund Site

…Health and Environment (CDPHE) that offer background and analysis on the superfund site. These include: Lowry Landfill Superfund Site Five-Year Review Fact Sheet, 2001 Lowry Landfill Superfund Site Information Update,… (Search hits: 4 in body, 1 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 54)

Colorado INSITE

…are investing in commercial real estate, you will find the new Colorado INSITE website a valuable resource.  Sponsored by the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT), the… (Search hits: 3 in body, 1 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 53)

Alt Text – Website Accessibility – part 3

…to better crawl and rank your website, and provides the written copy that appears in place of an image on a webpage if the image fails to load on a… (Search hits: 3 in body, 1 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 53)

Some of Our Clients

The State Library’s Website Creation & Hosting service provides websites for a number of library organizations, including the sites shown below. Many Colorado Libraries also use our services. To see… (Search hits: 3 in body, 0 in title, 1 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 53)

Meet the COLibraries Community

…Norte Public Library Elbert County Library District – Pines & Plains Libraries Flagler Library Haxtun Public Library Heginbotham Library Ignacio Community Library John C. Fremont Library District (Florence) Julesburg Public… (Search hits: 0 in body, 0 in title, 1 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 50)

New Website for Colorado Watering Restriction Information

…single, centralized website with information on watering restrictions for all Colorado customers.  Simply go to the website, http://www.coh2o.co/, and search by city, county, or zip code to find out your… (Search hits: 3 in body, 1 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 58.89)

Colorado Cottage Foods Act

It is becoming increasingly popular to produce one’s own food or buy products directly from farmers and other producers. Many cities such as Denver now allow residents to keep chickens,… (Search hits: 4 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 49.09)

Updates to the Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act

…Health’s The Attitudes and Behaviors Surveys (TABS) on Health, a survey which reported that entryways were among the places Coloradans most frequently have to deal with secondhand smoke. The updates… (Search hits: 1 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 36.98)

Tips for Avoiding Cyber Scams

…criminals will often hack into users’ accounts – so if a link looks suspicious or unfamiliar, verify it is legitimate before clicking. Internet auction and classified ad sites. These kinds… (Search hits: 10 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 43.82)

December is National Impaired Driving Prevention Month

…Influence of Drugs and Alcohol Traffic Stop Summary Enforcement Period Reports (DUI checkpoints) Colorado Drugged Driving Fact Sheet WEBSITES http://www.noduicolorado.org/ https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/csp/alcohol-drugs https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/csp/traffic-safety-statistics https://www.codot.gov/safety/alcohol-and-impaired-driving https://www.codot.gov/safety/impaired-driving/druggeddriving [added 3 June 2021; was https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/marijuana/driving-and-traveling]… (Search hits: 6 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 41.37)

Mailing Lists 101

…to them with the more generic term mailing list. Why use mailing lists? Each mailing list is a tool that serves a specific community. It can be a bulletin board… (Search hits: 1 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 39.23)

Bag of Tricks – Metaverse

“Augmented Reality (AR) is an interactive experience of a real-world environment whereby the objects that reside in the real-world are “augmented” by computer-generated perceptual information.” – Wikipedia Does augmented reality… (Search hits: 1 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 39.23)

State Website Redesign

Many of Colorado’s state agency websites have recently been redesigned to reflect the new Brand Colorado logos and designs. The State of Colorado’s main homepage, www.colorado.gov, is currently undergoing a… (Search hits: 2 in body, 1 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 57.89)

Descriptive Link Text – Website Accessibility – part 4

…consists of a 101-character link full of numbers, slashes, and text that is not very human-readable (https://www.worldcat.org/title/constructing-accessible-web-sites/oclc/263579159?referer=di&ht=edition). Folks tend to use the entire URL as a link if they think… (Search hits: 3 in body, 1 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 58.89)

Tuberculosis

…Health Sciences. Although tuberculosis isn’t the killer it once was, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment keeps close tabs on the disease in the state. They publish yearly… (Search hits: 1 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 36.98)

Colorado’s National Parks and Monuments

…currently has sixteen sites – what the NPS refers to as parks – in the system, although it is possible another could be added, because earlier this month Governor Polis… (Search hits: 21 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 21)

How and where to get free images for your website

…your site isn’t “fair use,” even if you’re linking to the source. Don’t “hotlink”. Hotlinking is when you use the url of an image on another website and make it… (Search hits: 6 in body, 1 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 56)