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Texas A&M University Web Group

We are a grassroots organization of campus web types interested in helping each other. Join the UWEB list-serve for the latest conversation or follow us on Twitter too.

What We Offer

Campus Projects and Applications - Things you have that you can share.

Meetings

List of Proposed Meetings and Talks

Notes from 5-15-09 Meeting - a lot of good information on this page including links to other sources

General Information

• UWeb Listserv - getting a post rejected? check here for more info
• Jobs - List Web Jobs available @ TAMU
• Facebook Group We are on Facebook
• Twitter We are on Twitter
• Added Twitter listing
• TAMU-UWEB sign up and look around and see what you think
• Category:Events - all still relevant?
• UXBookClub College Station from Wendy Wolfington's listserv post
• Texas A&M ProComm

What We're Planning

Nominations for Steering Commitee

Anyone interested and willing to serve on the uWeb Steering Committee, edit this page and put your name here.

• Erick Beck (ex officio)
• Kendra Beasley, College of Science (whatever you need...random task-master)
• Wendy Wolfington, Texas A&M AgriLife Information Technology Dept
• Robert Stackhouse
• Brady Creel, Texas A&M at Qatar
• Rob Williams, Texas A&M Department of Entomology
• Craig Thompson, Texas A&M Information Technology CIS Communications and Marketing
• Donald St. Martin, College of Engineering
• Jennifer Le Grevellec, Transportation Services
• Monty Dickerson, Texas A&M, College of Liberal Arts

To Do

• Feel free to move any previous but still accurate/relevant links/information up above the 2008 line, that's mostly to mark taking a fresh look at the information here
• fix the search on this wiki to use the campus Google Search Appliance?

2008 and previous information

Welcome to the Texas A&M University Web Group website. We are a grassroots organization of campus webmasters interested in helping each other. Here you will find resources to help people who work with websites at Texas A&M learn about and work with the web, including sharing tips and links with other users. More about us...

Need information on the Brand Council, university web templates, or style guidelines? The CMS, Portal, and Template FAQ might help clarify things.

Upcoming Events See also Category:Events Notes from Past Events Notes from 5-15-09 Meeting - Friday, May 15 @ 9:00AM General Services Complex Rm 101A. Programmers Forum - Tuesday, July 24, 2008 @ 6:00PM Coffee Station - 2nd Floor. Robert Stackhouse, William Smith, and Karl Katzke will be talking about Test-Driven-Development and the different unit testing software packages available for different languages. No RSVP required. Come, enjoy coffee and a good talk with discussion afterwards. CMS Showcase - February 26 , 2008- March 2. U-WEB has invited several CMS vendors to come and discuss their products with our campus webmasters for educational purposes. CIS Presentation: Electronic access methods at Texas A&M - held February 7th, 2007 at the MSC. Presentation slides now available at CIS's IT Professionals site. Look for the Authentication and Authorization Services Presentation (PPT) topic.

Resources

This is a giant compilation of useful reading from around the web. Subjects will include everything from programming-related resources to color theory for designers.

• Resources - Old Resources home page
• Wiki Help
• UWeb Listserv

And for those really difficult days...

• Web Design Humor

New Webmaster Resources

• Quick Start - A list of tools and tips for new webmasters.
• Official Branding Guide - University guidelines for font, color, paper, layout, etc.

Technical References

• Web Markup - HTML, CSS, XHTML, XML, Microformats
• Programming Languages - PHP, Perl, Python, C#, RubyOnRails
• Client-Server Communication - JSON
• Database Servers - MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Oracle
• Web Servers - Linux (Apache, ligHTTPd), Windows, IIS
• Standards - Accessibility, Campus Web Standards, 508, w3c
• Content management - CMS, Wiki

Web Design

The web doesn't have to be ugly.

• Color - Color Pickers, Web Palettes
• Design - CSS Hints, Design Howtos, Design Galleries, Fonts, Layout
• Tools - Photoshop, Dreamweaver

Content

A cool website is *nothing* without content and good management.

• Writing - Writing for the web, Research, Digital Asset Management
• Project Management - Planning, Project Management Software
• Making Sure You Don't Suck - Testing, Problems

Projects

Information on things we want our campus to have. If you are interested in adding a or want to get people involved on an idea, add it here, and share.

• UWeb Projects
• TAMU Calendar
• TAMU Photos
• TAMU Discussion Forums

Todo

Everyone:

• Edit some Stubs and flesh out the articles.
• Find a red link and at least flesh it out.
• Redirect basic topics that are Categories, like Javascript and HTML, to the Category page for that topic.

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Quote of the Day: "The student web space really should be set up more like facebook, or myspace, or something pre-configured rather than 'here's your quota on the unix server; have fun'" -- Stephanie Leary

Other Quote of the Day: "It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe

Other Other Quote of the Day: "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi