Previous Rice Web Forums

The Rice Web Forum is co-sponsored by Public Affairs and Web Services with the idea of providing an information-sharing venue for campus web site creators and maintainers. Previous topics included:

2009

October 30, 2009 - Web Sites and Students& Usability
by Michael Rog, Student Activities

September 11, 2009 - Web Sites, Rice Standard, & Usability
by Jennifer Ongoco, Web Developer, Public Affairs and Sean Rieger, Web Development Director of Public Affairs

March 12, 2009 - Accomplishing Work with Your Website
 J.D. Leonard, Student Association Director of Technology, & Rebecca Wrynn, Assistant Director of Student Judicial Program

February 13, 2009 - Your Website as a Promotion Tool
Natalie Weber, Rice Dance Theatre Webmistress

2008

November 14, 2008 - Creating a Marketing Campaign using Web and Print Vehicles
Donald Soward, Brown School of Engineering Senior Web/Graphic Designer

October 10, 2008 - Redesigning the Fondren Library Website with Plone
Jeff Koffler, Fondren Library Web Developer

February 22, 2008 - Accessibility for Your Web Site
Dave Katten, Web Services
Is your web site accessible? Learn about W3C guidelines and how making your web site accessible to people with various abilities can also increase your site's usability.

2007

November 9, 2007 - RSS feed (what is it, how to get it/read it, how to send it)
Krystal Bivens, Eddie Heard, and Jeff Frey, Web Services
Bonus: bring your laptop to set up your own RSS reader and add RSS feeds to it during this session.

September 28, 2007 - New Rice Identity Standards and the Web
Public Affairs Associate Director for Web Development Sean Rieger, and Web Services Manager Jeff Frey will share their ideas on implementing the new Rice identity standards on web pages and how Public Affairs, individual departments, and Web Services plan to proceed with site design revisions.

April 20, 2007 - Surveys on the Web
David Stagg, Graphic and Web Designer & Jeff Frey, Web Services

February 8, 2007 - Getting There - The Transformation of the Rice.edu web site
Suzanne Gschwind, Public Affairs

2006

November 3, 2006 - Writing for the Web
Dawna Jarvis, Public Affairs

September 21, 2006 - Utilizing the Web for Courses and Collaborations - OWL-Space
Angela Rabuck, Educational Technologies

April 28, 2006 - Creating College Web Sites
Stephen Rooke (Hanszen) and James Jirtle (Brown)

April 13, 2006 - Designing for a Broad Audience
David Stagg (RMC and Recreation Center web sites)

March 24, 2006 - Plone and How it is used in Connexions
Dr. Ross Reedstrom

2005

November 17, 2005 - Using Personas, Previewing the New Rice Portal and New Rice Home page design, Web Design Tips and Tricks, Rice Web Forum Charter
 Carlyn Chatfield, Jeff Frey, and Suzanne Stehr Gschwind.