Month: August 2010
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Blog Post Thumbnails in Search Results
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Good news for Gustavus bloggers, we have taken another step toward making our search engine work a little bit better–blog post thumbnails will now appear next to search results just like profile photos.
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Profile Photos in Search Results
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Wading through search results can be tough when everything looks the same. It takes time to read through the results to find what you are looking for. Zeroing in on search results about a person at Gustavus just got a bit easier–we’ve added profile photos to our search results.
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Lazy AuxBox Makes Pages Load 22% Faster, Generate 75% Quicker
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Many pages on the Gustavus website feature a section of auxiliary content that we like to call the AuxBox–the blue part at the bottom of the page that typically has events, news, and profiles. While we really like having this content on our pages, we noticed it took a fair amount longer for our server…
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Tweet and Like Blog Posts and Calendar Items
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Sharing your favorite Gustavus website content with your friends just got a lot easier. Today we added Twitter tweet buttons and Facebook like buttons to blog posts and calendar items.
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Your Account Page
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There are a lot of important things you need to remember; the location of the secret web page to change your password or configure spam filtering settings shouldn’t be one of them. Thankfully, we just made it a lot easier to find and use these things.
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Our New Mobile Website
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Nobody had even heard of a smartphone when we first got the Internet at my house. Many websites were still designed with a web safe color palette of 216 colors and tiled backgrounds were the cool, new kid on the block. A MIDI and a scrolling marquee gave you street–or at least Internet–cred. In those…