10 * (secret track)

dan sandler, wrc '99, web editor ( www, mail )

dan is a senior computer science major and a reasonably active member of will rice college. he is responsible for several campus web projects, among them the WRC website, the Dean of Engineering site, and the owlnet lab report.

he is a college computing associate at will rice, and so will gladly answer computer questions large and small. he is an avid graphic designer and artist, a video game designer, a font and coffee snob, and enjoys writing prose in the third person.

his other, slightly more extensive personal page is here.

amy cooper - student director of o-week

Thanks to Amy for all her help with what was intended to be a 2.5-month project, but turned into a 2.5-week project. She's been more patient than a testy designer really deserves, anyhow. She's quite possibly the most generally together Web client I've worked with at Rice.

 
the o-week coordinators

Mad props to the coordinators. Y'all kick ass, as usual. Thanks for being patient with me about your Zip disks -- I hope you all got them back. (As for those of you who never got any Zips to me, well, ummm, if you can drop them off sometime ... yeah, that would be great ... )

 
prentiss riddle - riceinfo webmaster supreme

Merci beaucoup for help getting up and running with a major site for RiceInfo. It ain't quite so easy!

tools

This website was designed using Macintosh computers running MacOS 8.1. Software included Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, UserLand Frontier, Pixel Spy (by Brian Horling), Alpha 7.0 (by Pete Keleher), and the omnipresent Emacs.

 
production

Pages were mocked up in Illustrator and Alpha; resultant images were chopped up with Photoshop and HTML (including gratuitous JavaScript rollovers) was pumped into Frontier templates. Custom outline renderers were coded in Frontier to handle the special data comprising the pages about the individual colleges.

With CSS-1 stylesheets and Frontier templates in place, copy was entered into Frontier outline elements and rendered as a website to local-disk. From there, HTML was previewed and then uploaded to RUF, the Rice UNIX Facility.

 
design

The text appearing in images on this site was set in Helvetica Neue, a recent consolidation of the fragmented Helvetica family. (Text appears primarily in Helvetica 46 Light Italic and Helvetica 36 Thin Italic.)

Recommended viewing environment includes Netscape Navigator or MS Internet Explorer version 4.0 or greater, and Helvetica (rather than simply Arial). Optimal viewing environment includes at least 16-bit color; Netscape Navigator 4.0, Mozilla, or lynx; MacOS, BeOS, or Linux; and a sense of humor.

All photographs were taken on-location by the author using an Apple QuickTake 150. No squirrels or ramen noodles were harmed during production.