Web Services

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  • Profile Photos in Search Results

    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.

  • Lazy AuxBox Makes Pages Load 22% Faster, Generate 75% Quicker

    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…

  • Tweet and Like Blog Posts and Calendar Items

    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.

  • 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…

  • Shorter is Still Better

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    In our eternal quest to optimize the Gustavus website, we removed the “academics” part of URLs.

  • Delivering a Faster Website

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    One of the most important parts of user experience on the web is how fast the pages actually load. We have been optimizing the Gustavus website for speed and have achieved some promising results.

  • Customized Calendar Event Listing on the Homepage

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    Have you ever lost something and became frustrated at how long it took you to find it? Finding information on the web can be a disappointing experience if the information is disorganized or presented poorly. We are always trying to help people find what they are looking for on our website as quickly as possible.

  • JPEG, PNG, and GIF: What’s the Difference?

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    We see it all the time–images on the web that are saved in the wrong file formats. Unfortunately, this often worsens the visitor’s experience due to unnecessary compression artifacts in graphics, graininess and reduced colors in photographs, and overall larger than necessary file sizes that place an unneeded burden on browsers, servers, and bandwidth. But…

  • Profiles Are Now Easier to Update

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    We recently overhauled the mechanism that employees use to update their professional profiles, making them more powerful and easier to use.