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, responsive web design, 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.

Current and Recent Projects

Presently, she works for three Rutgers departments, has done work for two public libraries, and continues to work for several small businesses in New Jersey. She is the webmaster 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 has free courses on the Bible and History and on the Israeli Political System. She is the web manager for American Ethnologist, an anthropology journal website in WordPress with sophisticated photo galleries. Three sites done in WordPress are the Scotch Plains Public Library, Geri Rosman Public Relations, and Connelly-Campion-Wright Insurance Agency. The redesign of the Highland Park Public Library site has received many enthusiastic reviews. Leora does the website for the NASA New Jersey Space Grant Consortium. She recently added a slideshow header to the Rutgers Anthropology Department. She designed a page of resources for property managers and 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.

How She Got Started with Web Building

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.

Teaching Social Media

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