What skills do I need to tailor Neuroinfo to my needs?
Changing the look of the web pages can be done easily with any html editor. We recommend Dreamweaver from Macromedia. Skills in graphic design are also desirable and can have a dramatic impact on the enthusiasm surrounding your site. Since Neuroinfo provides a simple interface to the SQL database, no database expertise is needed. The Neuroinfo database is seeded with the most common categories likely to be used, including: staining technique, tissue, species, and section plane. New categories can be easily added from the administrative interface, and new items can be added to a category at any time. An innovative feature allows for the combination of redundant entries, so that a structure with several different names can be found with a single search of the database (for example, the word “putamen” can be combined with “lenticular nucleus” and “basal ganglia”). A basic facility with a computer is all that is needed to set up your own custom database.
