Laura Wolfram is a recent [2007] of the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies.  She earned her BA in art history from Swarthmore College and her MA in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York.She is the head librarian at an independent K-8 school in San Francisco, California.  

To contact Wolfram, please e-mail lwolfram100[at]qc[dot]cuny[dot]edu.  

This Web site was designed largely with KompoZer, an open-source alternative to Dreamweaver.  Along with Adobe Photoshop, Wolfram also used GimpShop, an open-source graphics editor with a user interface very similar to that of Photoshop, to create and modify the site's images.  

For anyone interested in building their web-design skills, Wolfram recommends the following resources:

• Robbins, J.BN. (2006).  Web design in a nutshell: A desktop quick reference.  Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media.
• Lynch, P.J. & Horton, S. (2001). Web style guide: Basic design principles for creating web sites, 2nd edition.  New Haven: Yale University Press.
• Partch, B. (2004-2005).  CSS Basics: http://www.cssbasics.com/
• Pemberton, S. (2006).  HyperText Markup Language Homepage.  W3C HTML Home Page: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp
• Stock.XCHNG -- the leading free stock photography site.
• WDG: Web Design Group. (2006).  Cascading style sheets.  HTML Help: http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/