‘New features’ Category
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. We hope that this will help users effortlessly glide around the Gustavus website without needing to unnecessarily re-authenticate for each section [...]
College Calendar Gets Better Search
Search can be one of the most effective ways to find what you are looking for. When search is missing or ineffective, combing through a tangled and growing haystack of data can be a veritable nightmare. Thankfully, we just launched a major improvement to the way that the College Calendar displays search results. [...]
Weather on the Calendar
Hot on the heals of yesterday’s announcement of a new weather page and data provider, today 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. College Calendar
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 [...]
College Calendar Redesigned
One of the oldest, largest, and most important pieces of the Gustavus website, the College Calendar was just rethought, redesigned, reprogrammed, and released.
We fixed the back button
Have you ever gone to the Gribly, made a couple of searches, and hit the back button only to return to the page you were at before you even went to the Gribly? That’s not what you expected, right? Frustrated? We hear you. This is a frequent problem in applications designed like the Gribly (i.e. web [...]