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College Calendar Gets Better Search
We just launched a major improvement to the way that the College Calendar displays search results which will help visitors find the information they are looking for.
Weather on the Calendar
We have added some weather information to the College Calendar. Hopefully each day's forecasted high and low temperatures will help give event-goers a little more context of what to expect at their events.
Weather for Saint Peter
We switched from a fee-based weather data service to use the freely available weather data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today.
Commission Gustavus 150 Survey
Our goal was to design a survey that allows anybody in the Gustavus community to easily give input on 439 items. The challenge was identifying and implementing a method that would work for as wide of an audience as possible without being overwhelming. Hopefully, we have succeeded.
How the Air Force Responds to Blog Posts
Here's a flowchart that describes the United States Air Force's rules of engagement for blogging, or rather, what their plan is when responding to blog posts.
Get your Gravatars!
We recently enabled some new features involving comments on blogs at Gustavus. One of the coolest features, and the one that could use a little help from you readers, is the addition of Gravatars.
How to Find Free Images
Have you ever been writing a blog post or putting together a website and thought that all it really needs is a couple of decent photos? If you don't have the time or talent to take photos for your pages, you might feel like you are out of luck. On the contrary, there's good news for you--an ocean of free images awaits you on Flickr Creative Commons search.
Calendar Widgets Get Date Links
You may have noticed that a number of Gustavus pages feature calendar widgets that display events from the College Calendar. Today we added a small but hopefully useful feature to these widgets--whenever a date is shown, that date will link to the same date in the College Calendar.
Google Calendar Gets Offline Mode, Docs Attachments, and iPhone and Windows Mobile Sync
Kyle Chambers in the Psychology department kindly writes in with news that Google Calendar recently added a couple of valuable features–offline access and Google Document attachments. Offline Calendar From Google’s FAQ about offline calendar: Calendar keeps you on time, even when you’re not online. Offline Calendar allows you to access your events through your browser […]
Scheduled Maintenance: 5pm February 6, 2009
This evening, beginning at 5pm CST, Technology Services will be performing scheduled maintenance on a group of servers that provide essential functionality to the Gustavus Website. During the scheduled maintenance, portions of the website will be replaced with a friendly message stating the site is currently unavailable and provide some Gustavus-related links. The entire maintenance […]