experimental CISTI sidebar for Firefox

A sidebar is basically just a regular web page that Firefox will load in a strip along the left-hand side of the main page.  CISTI provides a lot of services, but they are scattered in various different places.  This sidebar provides some quick access to various searches and links in one place.  Once I put together the sidebar page, Steve Anthony packaged it up properly for Firefox.  When you have it installed, you can open it from menu View->Sidebar->CISTI Search, or by hitting ALT-c (on both Windows and Mac).  There are some known bugs - in particular the links in the sidebar don't show up as highlighted. 

Get the sidebar ("Experimental CISTI Research Sidebar") from Steve's Firefox tech page.

As I mentioned, the content is just a regular web page, so you will see an updated version whenever changes are made.

Feel free to provide any feedback or suggestions.

UPDATE 2005-Dec-22: Get the latest sidebar from CISTI Lab.

Comments

[Gianluca Drago]

Good work! I've tryed a similar thing (a Firefox toolbar) for use at my library. If you are interested, you can download it from my personal weblog at: http://everything.no-ip.org/mb/
Please note it is still to be finished.

Goodbye,
Gianluca