Website Wednesday

The Website Wednesday meeting is intended for anyone who maintains, edits, designs, or develops websites at Princeton University. No technical background is necessary to benefit from this event.

The meeting is held one Wednesday per month during the academic year.

Please vote on the meeting topics so we can plan presentations that most interest you.

Upcoming Meetings

Meetings are held in Frist Campus Center room 330 and on Zoom. See our Event details at my.princeton.edu for RSVP and Zoom information.

  • October 20, 2021
  • November 17, 2021
  • December 15, 2021
  • January 19, 2022
  • February 16, 2022
  • March 16, 2022
  • April 20, 2022
  • May 18, 2022
  • June 15, 2022

 

Past Meetings

September 15, 2021

  • What's New in Site Builder version 2 and Call For Topics

June 16, 2021

  • Publications in the Princeton Site Builder version 2 - Michael Muzzie, Web Development Services

May 19, 2021

  • No meeting held

April 21, 2021

  • Building Effective Resource Libraries in Sitebuilder v2 - Robert Ivan, Jessica Monaco, and Byron Veale of Web Development Services

March 17, 2021

  • Design and Layout Features of the new Princeton Site Builder (Drupal) - Jessica Monaco, Web Development Services

February 17, 2021 

  • Writing for the Web: Creating a Unifying Voice Across Campus (includes the Princeton Editorial Style Guide) - Denise Valenti and Julie Clack, Office of Communications

January 20, 2021

  • No meeting held

December 16, 2020

  • No meeting held

November 18, 2020

  • Website Wednesday x Social Media (Jessica Leontarakis and Maddy Pryor, Office of Communications)

October 14, 2020

  • Case Study: The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (John Cloys, Web Services Manager, SPIA)

September 16, 2020

  • Introducing the new Site Builder platform (powered by Drupal)
  • Call for  Website Wednesday Topics (Jill Moraca, Web Development Services, OIT)

 

    Archive

    June 17, 2020

    • Virtual Commencement Events - Panel of speakers - take a tour of various virtual events held by the University, hear how they were made, and lessons learned.

    May 20, 2020

    • No meeting held

    April 15, 2020

    • Accessibility 2020: Making it Normal & Not Scary (John Jameson, OIT)

    March 18, 2020

    • Publishing Important Content to Websites (Jill Moraca, OIT)

    February 19, 2020

    • Audience-focused Content and Design (Jessica Monaco, Web Development Services, OIT)

    January 15, 2020

    • Setting Website Goals (Jill Moraca, OIT)

    December 18, 2019

    • Which webform tool should I use? (Ash Hadap, Sushma Mendu, and Jill Moraca, OIT)

    November 13, 2019

    • Website Case Studies (Jill Moraca and Tonya Gibson, OIT)

    October 16, 2019

    • The Usability Lab (Susan Spraragen and Tonya Gibson, OIT)

    September 18, 2019

    • What's new at Web Development Services, Top 5 Website Tune-up Tips, and Call for Topics (Jill Moraca, Web Development Services, OIT)

    June 19, 2019

    • Drupal's CSS Injector (Lingyan He, Jessica Monaco, and Joanne Tunney; Web Development Services, OIT)

    May 15, 2019

    • Design Trends (Jessica Monaco, Web Development Services, OIT)

    April 17, 2019

    • Webform Best Practices (Jill Moraca, Web Development Services, OIT)

    March 20, 2019

    • Google Analytics (Christian Knoebel, Office of Communications and Jill Moraca, Office of Information Technology)

    February 20, 2019

    • Cancelled due to snow

    January 16, 2018

    • Accessibility Guidelines and Best Practices (Mary Albert and Damian Sian, User Experience Office, OIT)

    December 19, 2018

    • Princeton's video services, storage, embedding tips, and captioning (David Hopkins, Senior Manager, Video Production Support, OIT)

    November 14, 2018

    • Building libraries of resources (and avoiding long lists of links) (Jill Moraca, Web Development Services, OIT)

    October 17, 2018

    • Ambient Video Best Practices (Danielle Alio, John Jameson, and Ushma Patel of the Office of Communications)

    September 19, 2018

    • Top 5 Website Tune-up Tips
    • Round Table - topics for this year

    June 20, 2018

    • How to choose the right website option for my needs. Which ones are University-supported?

    May 16, 2018

    • A discussion about publishing events and archiving them on websites
    • The Timeline (Matt Hood, OIT)
    • Publishing Events on Websites (Jill Moraca, OIT)

    April 18, 2018

    • Case Study: Center for Hellenic Studies Website Redesign - Greg Duncan, Web Project Manager, Center for Hellenic Studies

    March 21, 2018

    • Cancelled due to snow

    February 21, 2018

    • How to keep your website fresh, interesting and relevant to your audience (Jessica Monaco, Manager of Design and Content Strategy, Web Development Services, OIT)

    January 17, 2018

    • Writing for the Web (Jill Moraca)

    December 20, 2017

    • Welcome and announcements
    • What's new in Template System
    • Tags, taxonomies, and meta tags - best practices and strategies (Maritza Cruz and Michelle Scott)

    November 15, 2017

    • Welcome and announcements
    • What's new in Template System
    • Template System - new Tiger theme (Jessica Monaco)

    October 18, 2017

    • Welcome and announcements
    • What's new in Template System
    • Managing users and permissions. Content workflow (drafts, etc.) 
      • Office of Communications - how do they do it? (Christian Knoebel)
      • Demo of Template System roles and publishing. (Byron Veale)

    September 20, 2017

    • Welcome and announcements
    • What's New in the Template System
    • Round Table - topics for this year

    June 21, 2017

    • Welcome and announcements (5 minutes)
    • What's New in the Template System (5 minutes)
    • Communicating effectively with web designers/developers - Michelle Scott, Content Strategist, Web Development Services, OIT (10 minutes)
    • Round table discussions (30 minutes)

    May 17, 2017

    • Welcome and announcements (5 minutes)
    • Website Accessibility - Damian Sian, Senior Web Accessibility Advisor, User Experience Office, OIT)

    April 19, 2017

    • Closed captioning and video production - David Hopkins, Office of Information Technology

    March 15, 2017

    • Photoshop Alternatives 
      • Acorn - Byron Veale, Web Development Services
      • GIMP - Axel Haenssen, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
      • Paint Shop Pro - Charlie Kreitzberg, User Experience Office
      • Pixlr - Andrew Lehman, Project and Technology Consulting Office
      • Aviary + Photography Usage Best Practices - Jessica Monaco, Web Development Services

    February 15, 2017

    • What's New in the Template System - Byron Veale, Web Developer, OIT
    • CSS and Drupal: Best practices and practical tips using the Template System - Michael Muzzie, Manager of Development, and Joanne Tunney, Web Designer, OIT

    January 18, 2017

    • Testing Publications functionality(link is external) on your Template Site.
    • Website Accessibility for Drupal Template System content authors - Damian Sian, Senior Web Accessibility Advisor, User Experience Office, Office of Information Technology - cut short by the fire drill - we'll bring him back!

    December 21, 2016

    • User research 101: What is user research, how to design a test, how to understand the results,and what to do with the results (including a brief show and tell of Usability Hub) - Michelle Scott, Content Strategist, OIT (15 minutes)
    • A case study in user testing - Tonya Gibson, Project Manager, OIT and Joanne Tunney, Web Designer, OIT (10 minutes)
    • User research for the main U website project - Christian Knoebel, Digital Manager, Office of Communications (30 minutes)

    November 16, 2016

    • Behavioral Analysis - how are people using your website what the research shows - Charlie Kreitzberg, Senior User Experience Advisor, OIT

    October 20, 2016

    • What's New in the Website Template System? - Henry Umansky 
    • Intro to the next All Our Ideas topic - Behavioral Analysis - how are people using your website

    September 28, 2016

    • What's New in the Website Template System? - Henry Umansky
    • Continuation of the Content Governance topic
    • Define content governance
    • Office of Communications - presentation and tips - Christian Knoebel

    August 17, 2016

    • What's New in the Website Template System? Learn about "Zippy Iguana" - Henry Umansky, WDS
    • New Theme Design - Learn about Siberian - Joanne Tunney, WDS
    • Round Table Discussion: Content Governance - how you’re your department decide which content goes on the website (and its tone, voice, etc).

    July 27, 2016 Inaugural Meeting

    • Overview and purpose of meeting and solicit topics via All Our Ideas website – Jill Moraca, WDS
    • Getting started with migrating from Roxen to Drupal – Jill Moraca, WDS
    • Changing the look of your Template Site – Joanne Tunney, WDS

    Meeting Notifications

    Meeting Notifications are provided via the Website Wednesday Timeline group.

    To join the group, please email webservices@princeton.edu

    User Experience Community

    Website Wednesday attendees may be interested in the User Experience (UX) community. Learn more about UX and their Design & Dessert sessions.