Office of Instructional and Research Technology

WEB DEVELOPMENT

An important component of many research programs at Rutgers is the development of a web site to support the organization and exchange of information and ideas. These web sites may be project-specific or simply to support a particular research group. Rutgers faculty and researchers have many web development resources available to them. The following is a summary of many of those resources.

On-line Guides

University Relations has developed a university-scale web resource at http://toolkit.rutgers.edu. This site contains university web policies, templates, tips and self-guided training material to help users develop web content quickly.

The Office of Information Technology (OIT) maintains a basic guide for web development at the university. The OIT web guide can be found at http://oit.rutgers.edu/websupport.html

Campus web development toolkits (photo galleries, templates, guides, etc.) are available for each campus:

Camden Computing Services: http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/toolkit
Newark Computing Services: http://www.ncs.rutgers.edu/web_dev.html
Newark Office of Campus Communications: http://www.newark.rutgers.edu/oc/
New Brunswick Computing Services: http://toolkit.rutgers.edu/

The Unit Computing Specialist (UCS) Toolkit has a basic guide to web resources.

Training

Campus Computing Services - Education Series
Each Campus Computing Services offers hands-on web development classes through their education series.

Camden - http://edseries.camden.rutgers.edu.
Newark - http://edseries.newark.rutgers.edu.
New Brunswick - http://edseries.rutgers.edu.

IDT
Camden's Instructional Design & Technology office offers regular web development classes at http://idt.camden.rutgers.edu/training.htm.

CTAAR
Center for Teaching Advancement and Assessment Research offers web development classes at http://cat.rutgers.edu/workshops/ws_descr_IT.html

Development Assistance

MSSG
Microcomputer Support Services Group (MSSG) provides professional web and database development services for a fee. MSSG's development team can handle complete projects as well as updates to existing sites.

ADDM
The Application Development and Data Management Team (ADDM) within Administrative Computing is responsible for enterprise-wide application development and data management. If a department has a web-based application that is tied into administrative data, please consult with ADDM.

Hiring a Student Web Developer
Many organizations have advertised for student web programmers through the student site http://studentwork.rutgers.edu. There is a great range of student knowledge when it comes to web development. It helps if you review a student's previous development projects to ensure they are commensurate with your expectations.

Other Resources/Utilities

Email Lists
There are a number of Rutgers email lists available to support for web development. These include:

Web_Announce offers periodic updates to decision-makers and information providers involved in creating the Rutgers web presence.
Web_Developers provides information of value to designers and programmers about the university's presence.
Web_Managers provides tips and tutorials for novice web developers such as administrators and other personnel assigned to manage unit/department web sites.

To subscribe people should either go to the web page that corresponds to the mailing list (for instance https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/web_announce ) or send e-mail to the list-specific join address (web_announce-join@email.rutgers.edu).

Drive Mapping
In order to ease the editing and transferring of files between your desktop and your campus web server, you can link your web documents to a folder on your desktop. Use the on-line guides to help you through the process:

New Brunswick: rci and eden: http://www.nbcs.rutgers.edu/newdocs/samba/
Camden: crab and clam: http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/HELP/Documentation/Windows/S50-4030_dhcp.php