Best Practices in Web Publishing
Margaret Wong, Web Communications Services
Thu Jan 20, 12-01:00pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Learn about the basics of MIT's web publishing environment. Topics include file naming conventions, folder structures, image formats, file transfer using Dreamweaver MX 2004, and more. Recommended for those who are interested in learning the most efficient and painless way to keep web site files up-to-date.
Contact: Margaret Wong, Web Communications Services, meponine@MIT.EDU
Sponsor: Information Services and Technology
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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Jeff Reed, Team Leader, Web Communications Services
Thu Jan 13, 12-01:00pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in Dreamweaver allow the web publisher to separate content from style and layout. CSS has many powerful properties that can make developing and maintaining a web site faster and easier. This session will cover the basic uses of CSS to control fonts, colors, leading, margins, typefaces, and other aspects of style in a web page.
Contact: Jeff Reed, Team Leader, Web Communications Services, jlreed@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Services and Technology
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Google at MIT: Web Publishers User Group
Suzana Lisanti
Thu Jan 27, 12-01:00pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Learn tips and tricks for using Google to improve your website's search capabilities. Topics covered include: boosting search engine rankings, improving search results, and adding a Google search box to your website.
Contact: Suzana Lisanti, lisanti@MIT.EDU
Sponsor: Information Services and Technology
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Introduction to PHP
Ray He, Mike Robbins
Thu Jan 13, 20, 06-07:30pm, 4-231
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: HTML Recommended
A brief introduction to using the PHP Hypertext Processor.
Contact: Ray He, W20-557, 253-7788, sipb-iap-php@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Information Processing Board
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Making the Most of Your Website
Mark W. Brown , Manager of AMPS Web Development
Tue Jan 11, 12-01:00pm, 9-057
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Are you using the web to your full advantage? For many organizations, the website is a static, underutilized asset. Several MIT departments have created simple, cost-effective tools to make their websites the centerpiece of the organization, shifting work from paper and email to the web. This talk describes web tools built for organizations at MIT in the following models:
• Self publishing, which simplifies the publication process by allowing experts in your organization to update content.
• Community interaction, which builds connections in a community through a process of multipoint communication.
• Information management, which centralizes storage of information from many sources and provides access to the community.
Contact: Mark W. Brown, 9-250, (617) 452-3490, mwbrown@mit.edu
Sponsor: Academic Media Production Services
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Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
Sean Brown, Web Communications Services
Thu Jan 6, 12-01:00pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Learn what RSS is, why it’s an important communication tool, and how to use it. We’ll discuss News Readers and aggregators, using an existing RSS “news feed” on your website, and creating and updating your own news feed.
Contact: Sean Brown, Web Communications Services, smbrown@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Services and Technology
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Why Usability?
Susan Jones, Usability Team
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: none
This four week series presents speakers addressing the issue of why (or why not) making things usable and accessible is important in our work lives, our everyday lives, and our political lives.
Contact: Susan Jones, Usability Team, N42-240L, (617) 253-0877, sbjones@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Services and Technology
User Interface and Elections - Examples from the 2004 Election
Prof. Ted Selker, MIT Media Lab Co-Director CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project
Join us for a lively discussion of how user interface technology played a part in the recent Presidential election. Topics include detecting fraud, ensuring security, reliability, and integrity, and problems of the disenfranchised.
Wed Jan 5, 01:30-03:00pm, 3-133
Web Accessibility for All
Stephanie Norton and Rich Caloggero, ATIC Lab
Learn to make Web sites more accessible to people with disabilities, more usable overall and more usable by older people. We'll discuss operating system accessibility tools, assistive technologies, and common problems of older web users. Learn how well your site works with a screen reader. Please, bring questions.
Wed Jan 12, 01:30-03:00pm, 3-133
It's the Market, Stupid! A New Look at Design, Usability and Old Age
Joe Coughlin, Director MIT AgeLab, ESD /Director New England UTC
Wed Jan 19, 01:30-03:00pm, 3-133, 3-133
Don't Make Me Think - POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER
Steve Krug Author of "Don't Make Me Think"
FOR NEW TIME AND DATE GO TO: http://web.mit.edu/ist/usability.
Steve Krug was a little-known but highly respected usability consultant until he wrote Don't Make Me Think. This book, written with wit and much common sense, is a product of more than a decade of user advocacy with companies like Apple, Netscape, AOL, BarnesandNoble.com and others.
Wed Jan 26, 01:30-03:00pm, 3-133
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