Web Services

Category: Projects

  • Events on the TV

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    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.

  • Did You Mean… Search Suggestions in the Gribly?

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    Finding people in the Gribly just got a lot easier. That’s right, you will now get helpful suggestions that may help you find who you are looking for, especially when you don’t know how to spell someone’s name.

  • New Profiles Browsing Features

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    We just added a few nice features to make browsing the new profiles an easier and richer experience. We hope that these features will encourage visitors to explore the profiles and get to know some of the personalities on campus. You can now browse profiles by department or by tag. We also added a visually…

  • Introducing Profiles

    Introducing Profiles

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    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…

  • Gustavus Website Updates

    Gustavus Website Updates

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    jerry

    We’ve made some noticeable modifications to the Gustavus template recently. The changes were made to address various minor issues, the foremost being usability problems in the “seach/go quickly to…” area of the header. Simple, comprehensive searching Where once we had a “go quickly to…” menu, search box, and search menu, we now have one simple…

  • Fixing broken PNG uploads with MediaWiki

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    Our Technology Services wiki is powered by MediaWiki—the same software that powers Wikipedia. So far, most things have worked relatively well for us. Even a few upgrades have gone pretty smoothly. The problem However, when we moved to a new server last week, we were stuck with a puzzling problem. Any images in PNG format…

  • hCards in the Footer

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    As part of our ongoing quest to incorporate useful microformats throughout the Gustavus website, we have added an hCard to the footer of every page within the Gustavus template. What does this mean? Now, visitors who use hCard aware technologies, such as the Operator extension for Firefox, will be able to add contact information for…

  • One Place to Submit Your News

    One Place to Submit Your News

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    If you have anything you would like to get the word out about, we have crafted a centralized news submission form. Are you looking to sell a puppy or are you helping the disadvantaged? Did you win a fancy award or just get published? Do you know somebody who knows somebody who knows something big?…

  • Office Hours Now on Schedules

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    After a brief period without office hour information in the schedules, we are very happy to announce the re-addition of office hours and other non-course information (such as department meetings, lunches, and research times) to schedules. We hope that the schedules will be even more informative and useful than ever with this non-course information. Scheduling…

  • Browsing Schedules

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    Starting right now, you can browse through schedules using the handy new “previous week” and “next week” links. If you ever lose your way while browsing, simply use the “this week” link to jump back to the current week. We’ve been planning for this feature for a while and are happy to see it go…