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  • New Colors

    New Colors

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    The Gustavus website just got a new paint job. Gold and blue were chosen to better highlight our school colors (black and gold) and emphasize our Swedish heritage. With our sesquicentennial approaching, it seemed like perfect timing. This update also brings a small but nice additional feature for those of you running Webkit-based browsers (like…

  • Local Navigation Context Clues

    Local Navigation Context Clues

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    If you’ve been paying close attention to the Gustavus website over the weekend, you’ve probably noticed that we added a subtle but helpful new feature to the Gustavus Template. Now, each page’s local navigation will highlight the page you are currently viewing if it happens to appear in the local navigation. For instance, check out…

  • Introducing fadey banners

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    You asked for it and we delivered. Starting right now, every area of the Gustavus website that has more than one banner got a cool visual effect. All of the banners for each section will cycle with a fadey transition. Our best example at this point is the Religion site–check it out! We hope that…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Gustavus Template Advanced Techniques

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    If you are a web developer at heart and happen to be using the Gustavus Template Container for your Gustavus web pages, today is your lucky day. Harness a little more of the power the Gustavus Template offers by reading up on our new Advanced Techniques. There, you will be able to learn some of…