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XHTMLParagraphFormat() Version 3
Version 3 of the previously posted XHTMLParagraphFormat() ColdFusion function has just been released. Thanks to visitor and commenter Christopher Lewis for drawing my attention to a minor bug. Get it while it’s hot: Download XHTMLParagraphFormat() Version 3 I’d love to hear if you end up using this function or if you have any suggestions, fixes, […]
Adobe GoLive CS2 Documentation and Screencasts
Since Ryan has been working hard over the past couple of weeks to develop some rock-solid documentation for GoLive CS2 in the GTS Wiki I wanted to draw your attention to the fact that there are now a number of helpful screencasts to help you get acquainted (or re-acquainted) with some of the most-used and […]
Why we changed the desktops in labs
Have you ever wished that you could stay more informed with what is happening at Gustavus? Have you ever wished that there was an easier and quicker way to access Gustavus events and news? You are in luck Well, if you use a Windows computer or kiosk in one of the labs, you are in […]
Gribly Feature From User Feedback
We received the following feedback today from the five star rating system regarding the new Gribly: “Missing a link to email the class from this list. A few of my faculty have asked where the link to send an email to this group was. We think it would be very functional if that could be […]
Wiki Search Cloud and Blog Aggregation
The GTS Wiki received a couple of new features on its main page recently. Search Cloud Like the previously mentioned search cloud on the main search page, the wiki now sports its own search cloud built from queries within the GTS section of our web tree. We hope that this will not only help visitors […]
Gribly now online!
The Gribly, Gustavus’ campus directory, is available online for the first time since its inception in 1966. This is exciting. We have been given the opportunity to take something that was well done and improve upon it. And I think we have. We’ve taken all the data from the printed version, added a search engine, […]
Faculty Schedules Improved
We recently fixed and improved on our Faculty Schedules pages. Somehow, the CSS file for the site was deleted during the 2005-2006 school year, making the page harder to read and use. We’ve added new CSS and javascript to the site, including a box on the right that keeps track of people you’ve selected to […]
Robots in the Wiki
We made some minor adjustments to our installation of MediaWiki to prevent robots such as Googlebot from indexing irrelevant pages like article edit pages and history pages. Essentially, we prepended a “/w/” to all non-article pages and then used mod_rewrite to remove the /w/ so the pages still work normally. The robots.txt file then prohibits […]
Cool new “Give feedback” and “Send this page” forms
Thanks to all of the hard work of Jeremy Carlson and the wonderful moo.fx, we recently upgraded the “Give feedback” and “Send this page” forms (linked at the tops of every page) from popups to be nicer in-page forms. No More Popups We have never liked popups and are glad to be rid of them. […]
Rate this page
We rolled out a new feature of the Gustavus Template today that allows users to quickly and easily rate every page in the Gustavus Template using the globally recognizable five-stars system. We hope that as people begin to rate the pages they visit, we will be able to improve the bad and highlight the good. […]