WaSP Interviews Lori Packer
On The State of Web Standards Adoption
Interview Conducted for xxth April 2007, by Rob Dickerson of the Education Task Force.
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Hi Lori. Thank you for agreeing to an interview. Could you tell us about yourself?
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I’m the Web Editor in the Office of Communications at the University of Rochester. Working with a team of graphic designers, I’m responsible for the design of the University’s homepage, the second-level “sorting pages,” and the University templates. I’ve also created and help maintain Web sites for central administrative departments like the main News site, the University President’s site, all the way down to the Parking site.
I started here in late 2002, and in Spring 2003 I attended my first HighEdWeb conference. (This was the regional New York conference that later merged with WebDevShare to become HighEdWebDev.) That last year of the New York conference, Jeffrey Zeldman was the keynote speaker, and I drank the Web standards Kool-Aid right then and there. The first
in-house design of the University homepage followed in January 2004, and it was also the first design that had adherence to Web standards as a stated goal.
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