Friday, January 2, 2009

Minnesota History Timeline: Update II

MnHS's IT manager has purchased a subscription to Dipity and my humble Minnesota History timeline will eventually be embedded on the MnHS website. Right now the Reference Department is putting the TimePieces events into Dipity before it gets embedded. Having a subscription means we will finally get rid of the ads (hurray!), once our payment is received.

As you can see, there are now a LOT more images on the timeline. In the second screenshot, which shows an event when it's been opened, you can see links to such things as:

The IT manager (thank-you, Rose) wrote some HTML code for us, which we just need to copy, paste, and then update with the appropriate link. Anyone clicking on the image itself gets sent back to our Visual Resources Database.

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