Archive for August, 2006
Wiki Search Cloud and Blog Aggregation
The GTS Wiki received a couple of new features on its main page recently. Search Cloud Like the previously mentioned search cloud on the main search page, the wiki now sports its own search cloud built from queries within the GTS section of our web tree. We hope that this will not only help visitors […]
Gribly now online!
The Gribly, Gustavus’ campus directory, is available online for the first time since its inception in 1966. This is exciting. We have been given the opportunity to take something that was well done and improve upon it. And I think we have. We’ve taken all the data from the printed version, added a search engine, […]
Christmas in Christ Chapel Tickets
Registration for “Christmas in Christ Chapel 2006: An American Odyssey” can now be completed online. Services are scheduled for various times from Dec. 1 through Dec. 3, 2006. More information about the event will be made available on the Christmas in Christ Chapel website.
Faculty Schedules Improved
We recently fixed and improved on our Faculty Schedules pages. Somehow, the CSS file for the site was deleted during the 2005-2006 school year, making the page harder to read and use. We’ve added new CSS and javascript to the site, including a box on the right that keeps track of people you’ve selected to […]
Homecoming and Family Weekend Registration
Online registration is now available for this year’s Homecoming and Family Weekend events. Both will allow you to register for the Neal & Leandra concert and the Diversity Center Banquet on Saturday, October 7.
Robots in the Wiki
We made some minor adjustments to our installation of MediaWiki to prevent robots such as Googlebot from indexing irrelevant pages like article edit pages and history pages. Essentially, we prepended a “/w/” to all non-article pages and then used mod_rewrite to remove the /w/ so the pages still work normally. The robots.txt file then prohibits […]
Search Cloud
Today we added a search cloud to the Search Gustavus page. We hope that this will help you find what you are looking for a little bit quicker. The search cloud is set to display the top 62 search terms from the past month. Why 62? Because Gustavus was founded in 1862. We’re number nerds […]
2006 Nobel Conference Website
The 2006 Nobel Conference website, featuring an original design by Jerry Nowell, is now live. The cool feature on this year’s Nobel Conference website is the slick implementation of the hCalendar microformat on the Conference’s schedule page and the hCard microformat on the presenter pages and schedule page. This will allow software that can recognize […]