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  • IE7 to support more standards

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    IEBlog has an entry about how they are working very diligently on improving the CSS and standards support in IE7 even though IE7 Beta 1 offers nearly nothing for improvements. I wanted to make it clear that we know Beta 1 makes little progress for web developers in improving our standards support, particularly in our…

  • Commenting code guidelines

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    Attention programmers, Ryan Campbell at particletree has posted some really great guidelines for commenting your code. Commenting your code is like cleaning your bathroom–you never want to do it, but it really does create a more pleasant experience for you and your guests. Because I’ve recently adopted a new mantra to use comments frequently and…

  • Google Ranking Factors

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    Trying to get a high page ranking for your website in Google can be challenging, especially if you don’t know what they are looking for. Well, some very smart webmasters have made some educated guesses as to what Google is looking for and have published their Google Ranking Factors – SEO List. There are “over…

  • Gustavus Honor Band Registration Site

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    We recently finished up work on a new registration page for Gustavus Honor Band 2005. This site allows high school band directors to nominate their especially talented music students for an intensive two-day musical experience at Gustavus. Thanks go to Sharon Stevenson for designing the layout of the site and Douglas Nimmo for providing content…

  • Paul Granlund at Last

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    With the help of Jeremy Braband, a former Web Services member who now works for Atomic Playpen, Justin Haaheim, one of our former student workers, and Ryan Rud, our current office pal, we recently put our new Paul Granlund website live. This new site offers biographical information about Granlund as well as information and photographs…

  • eCards

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    We recently updated the Gustavus virtual postcard system. The new system, called Gustavus eCards, has been completely rewritten and includes new features and a cleaner, more user-friendly interface. We’ve added a lot more photos to choose from, each with an html caption. The Admin back-end features convenient picture, category and user management, useful statistics and…

  • A new sidebar

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    Yesterday we added some functionality and dynamic content to the general sidebar of the Gustavus template. This will positively affect all of the pages that have that neat little blue sidebar on them. Some of the changes include: Removed built-in border from images. Added a CSS white border and faux drop-shadow. Updated links and statistics.…

  • News 2.1.1

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    News 2.1.1 is now live. We identified and fixed a small CSS bug from News 2.1.0 that showed up under IE on my Windows XP machine. The problem was that the links in the menubar had not been given a specific width. The idea behind this technique was that they would automatically stretch to the…

  • News 2.1.0

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    I just finished the news 2.1.0 upgrade and put it live. This is the latest upgrade since I finished 2.0.1 in April. For the most part, visitors to sites that use the news software will see no change as nearly all of the updates deal with the administrative side. The biggest improvements affect the new…

  • Nobel online registration

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    If you are thinking about attending the annual Nobel Conference here at Gustavus but haven’t yet registered, we have good news for you. Online registration for this year’s Nobel Conference is now up and ready for use. This is a big step forward for the Nobel Conference because not only is it the first year…