‘New features’ Category
An Even Easier Way to Give
Just in time for the holidays, we made our online giving form even easier to use. This update should save people some time and effort when giving a gift to Gustavus.
On Campus Pages Brainstorming
Not many pages on the Gustavus website receive as much traffic as the On Campus page--particularly the section designed for students. We have been brainstorming some ideas on how to improve these pages for a while and want to see what you think about what we have in store.
Single Sign-On (SSO) for Gribly, College Calendar, and more
As of this afternoon, if you log in to the Gribly, you will also be logged in to the College Calendar, Google Calendar, Moodle, and a bunch of other areas of the Gustavus website.
College Calendar Gets Better Search
We just launched a major improvement to the way that the College Calendar displays search results which will help visitors find the information they are looking for.
Weather on the Calendar
We have added some weather information to the College Calendar. Hopefully each day's forecasted high and low temperatures will help give event-goers a little more context of what to expect at their events.
Calendar Widgets Get Date Links
You may have noticed that a number of Gustavus pages feature calendar widgets that display events from the College Calendar. Today we added a small but hopefully useful feature to these widgets--whenever a date is shown, that date will link to the same date in the College Calendar.
Google Calendar Gets Offline Mode, Docs Attachments, and iPhone and Windows Mobile Sync
Kyle Chambers in the Psychology department kindly writes in with news that Google Calendar recently added a couple of valuable features–offline access and Google Document attachments. Offline Calendar From Google’s FAQ about offline calendar: Calendar keeps you on time, even when you’re not online. Offline Calendar allows you to access your events through your browser without requiring Internet [...]
Improved Default Aux Box
Today we officially say goodbye to the stale “Did You Know” factoids from our website’s Aux Box (the blue column on the right side of many pages that contains extra content) and say hello to some new and improved, always-fresh content. By default, we now pull events from the College Calendar, news, and profiles into [...]
Local Navigation Context Clues
If you've been paying close attention to the Gustavus website over the weekend, you've probably noticed that we added a subtle but helpful new feature to the Gustavus Template. Now, each page's local navigation will highlight the page you are currently viewing if it happens to appear in the local navigation. For instance, check out the Classics Events page.
Religion Theses Search
While the religion department has been posting copies of students’ senior theses on its website for a number of years, we recently added a handy search box to the page. Thanks to a little bit of help from some Google technology, you can now search through all of these academic documents. There’s a lot of good [...]