Gadget junkies everywhere, unite--you have nothing to lose but your bank balance! Here's what I was told when I asked librarians what tools they would bring if they were stranded on a desert island with a high-speed Internet connection. 1. MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE It's one thing to understand how to create a nice Web site from scratch; it's another thing to actually do it that way. "I just taught a FrontPage class last week and was reminded of life before FrontPage" (www.microsoft.com/frontpage/), saidJulie James, technology consultant at the Library of Virginia. "For day-to-day Web development and maintenance, FrontPage 2000 is the best thing since the graphical browser." 2. ZOOMERANG Want to create a library survey, but you're scared off by the price of most survey software? How does free or lowcost hit you? Erik Jul at OCLC wrote, "I love Zoomerang (www.zoomerang.com), a free (or, depending upon the level of service, for-fee) Web-based survey tool. In just minutes the tool enables users to create, execute, manage, and interpret survey data. Easy, fun, and cool." The higher-end version of this software is
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