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Web-based process drives student-donor connection
Each year a substantial number of Gustavus students benefit from the generosity of donors. As a way to show thanks and strengthen connections between students and donors, students are invited to write thank-you letters to the people who made their scholarships possible. These thank-you letters are a critical component to Advancement’s donor strategy. These notes […]
Events on the TV
We recently put a new system live that pulls events from the college calendar to the closed-circuit channel 8 on campus--which includes the television sets in the campus center.
Introducing Profiles
We have just put on the finishing touches on the first version of a new profile system that will allow faculty and staff to create a “professional profile” via their web browsers. We’ve tried to keep the form fairly simple and easy-to-use, supplementing the user-provided information with details gleaned from our master database system. The […]
A web page editor for the rest of us
For the last eight years, Gustavus has been asking web publishers to use GoLive to create, edit and maintain their websites. After countless hours training, supporting, troubleshooting and consoling our friends and coworkers, we’ve decided that the madness has to end. We’ve been exploring web-based content management as means to simplify the site maintenance process. […]
A world of new possibilities
This week, we were able to retire our old web servers and move to a new set. Since a server’s purpose is to serve content at all times, it isn’t something that you can just casually upgrade like you can a personal computer. It takes a great deal of planning, forcing you to consider how […]
Senior Class Gift Website
We’ve been working with the senior class gift committee and have put the 2007 Senior Class Gift website live. You will be able to find all of the information you ever wanted to know about the senior class gift. We tried to make it feel friendly and inviting, so hopefully it comes across that way. […]
Homepage Featured in O’Reilly Book
While browsing for good books, I came across two that looked particularly interesting: Object-Oriented PHP and the recently updated Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Third Edition (AKA “the Polar Bear Book”). Little did we know that while Jerry was mindlessly thumbing through Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld’s Information Architecture he would find the […]
Welcoming Our Newest Member… Ryan Rud
Today, it’s official. Ryan “Rudi” Rud (previously) is the new Web Application Programmer for Web Services! While Ryan has been with us for a few years as a student worker, we are completely thrilled to keep him around here as a full-time administrator for the College. Ryan has been and will continue to be a […]
A little back-end upgrade
If you work in technology, most likely, you are familiar with the feeling that you get when you take something that is old or unreliable and make it modern and robust. For those of you who don’t work in technology, it’s like sitting in front of a fireplace, sipping hot chocolate (or Irish coffee) and […]
A Classics face-lift
The Classics Department recently approached us about redesigning and updating their website. We fully understood that they were a small, but incredibly vibrant department, and we wanted this to be communicated without putting an added strain on time or resources. Back to basics We first examined the information they wanted to make accessible. We came […]