About Leora Wenger

Leora Wenger has worked with computers all her adult life. She self-trained in web design and development, learning HTML, WordPress, PHP, MySQL, Drupal, Javascript, jQuery, ZenCart, Flash and Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Before the web, she did tech support and programming. While working at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, she learned more about computers (and computer scientists) than in the many computer classes she has taken. She has studied art at the Boston Museum School, Boston University School for the Arts and in other institutions.

Presently, she works for Rutgers Jewish Studies, including putting the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival online. The e-learning project for the Rutgers Bildner Center, Jewish Studies Online, is visited by users around the globe and now has free courses on the Bible and History and on the Israeli Political System. Two sites done in WordPress are the Scotch Plains Public Library and Connelly-Campion-Wright Insurance Agency. The redesign of the Highland Park Public Library site has received many enthusiastic reviews. She put online a site map for the accounting firm Wilkin & Guttenplan of East Brunswick, New Jersey. Other sites: New Jersey School of Dental Assisting and Public History Partners.

She began her web career by designing a site for her son's school. She was soon getting requests for more sites! The award-winning website for the Highland Park Environmental Commission is one of her ongoing creations. She wrote an internationally-used homestay application script for a small New York-based business and coordinated translations of web pages into German, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French and Spanish. She did web design and DHTML programming, including pull-down menus, for a startup company. She redesigned a website for the Rutgers University Anthropology Department that was online from 2002-2005.

Leora Wenger has given talks at New Jersey libraries about social media, including a Twitter Research Workshop at the Highland Park Public Library.