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Texas A&M University Web Group
We are a grassroots organization of campus web types interested in helping each other.
What We Offer
Campus Projects and Applications - Things you have that you can share.
Meetings
List of Proposed Meetings and Talks
- 2009-11 Meeting Plans - Topic TBD, Format TBD, Date TBD.
- 2009-09-04 Meeting Notes (Web Design: Best Practices & CSS)
- 2009-07-10 Meeting Notes (Roby Fitzhenry: Think like a Designer)
- 2009-05-15 Meeting Notes (Stone Soup)
General Information
- Listserv: getting a post rejected? check here for more info
- Jobs: Wiki page listing Web Jobs available @ TAMU
- Facebook Join our group
- Twitter group announcements
- Tweet! Tweet! We are on Twitter - follow us
- Ning sign up, and look around, and see what you think
- Category:Events - what's going on
- UXBookClub College Station from Wendy Wolfington's listserv post
- Ning for Texas A&M ProComm: relate with the Communicators
What We're Planning
Nominations for Steering Commitee
Anyone interested and willing to serve on the uWeb Steering Committee, edit the page and put your name on the list.
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.
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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...
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.
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.
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
