The 2010-11 edition of the Colorado Mountain College Academic Catalog is easy to flip through, bookmark, share with a friend, even pull a page out. Yet it weighs nothing.
When the current catalog released, it was available on the website only as a PDF download. But the Marketing & Communications Department has found a better way to present the electronic catalog — a “flipping book!”
It looks and acts like a real book, but online. Users can flip the pages, or magnify them with a mouse click. The table of contents stays to the side of every page for easy navigation. Searches highlight words or phrases within the text, and buttons allow you print whatever page you need, or download the whole PDF to your computer. This type of technology was used for last year’s online catalog. But there were many bugs. The new technology creates a more user-friendly publication, with more features.
Go ahead, give the CMC Catalog a flip!