Technology Services

Year: 2005

  • Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox

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    jlencion

    Patrick H. Lauke at Get Tooled Up outlines how Mozilla Firefox can be used in conjunction with the Web Developer Toolbar to carry out a preliminary accessibility review. Although awareness of web accessibility has steadily increased in recent years, many web developers are still uncertain about how to evaluate their sites. The relative complexity of…

  • IE7 to support more standards

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    jlencion

    IEBlog has an entry about how they are working very diligently on improving the CSS and standards support in IE7 even though IE7 Beta 1 offers nearly nothing for improvements. I wanted to make it clear that we know Beta 1 makes little progress for web developers in improving our standards support, particularly in our…

  • Commenting code guidelines

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    jlencion

    Attention programmers, Ryan Campbell at particletree has posted some really great guidelines for commenting your code. Commenting your code is like cleaning your bathroom–you never want to do it, but it really does create a more pleasant experience for you and your guests. Because I’ve recently adopted a new mantra to use comments frequently and…

  • Google Ranking Factors

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    jlencion

    Trying to get a high page ranking for your website in Google can be challenging, especially if you don’t know what they are looking for. Well, some very smart webmasters have made some educated guesses as to what Google is looking for and have published their Google Ranking Factors – SEO List. There are “over…

  • Gustavus Honor Band Registration Site

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    rrud

    We recently finished up work on a new registration page for Gustavus Honor Band 2005. This site allows high school band directors to nominate their especially talented music students for an intensive two-day musical experience at Gustavus. Thanks go to Sharon Stevenson for designing the layout of the site and Douglas Nimmo for providing content…

  • New LDAP servers

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    doachs

    Since our old master ldap server decided to kick the bucket yesterday, we had to scramble a little bit and push out a new ldap setup a little faster than we had planed. However in the end, I think it turned out to be a good thing. We now have 3 ldap servers running on…

  • Paul Granlund at Last

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    jlencion

    With the help of Jeremy Braband, a former Web Services member who now works for Atomic Playpen, Justin Haaheim, one of our former student workers, and Ryan Rud, our current office pal, we recently put our new Paul Granlund website live. This new site offers biographical information about Granlund as well as information and photographs…

  • eCards

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    rrud

    We recently updated the Gustavus virtual postcard system. The new system, called Gustavus eCards, has been completely rewritten and includes new features and a cleaner, more user-friendly interface. We’ve added a lot more photos to choose from, each with an html caption. The Admin back-end features convenient picture, category and user management, useful statistics and…

  • iplanet .htaccess and Safari

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    doachs

    For some strange reason we were having a problem with Safari users getting to some of our secure web pages. It turns out that our iplanet web server was not properly reading some of the information in the .htaccess file. We had a line in there for AuthName that had quotes around the value as…

  • A new sidebar

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    jlencion

    Yesterday we added some functionality and dynamic content to the general sidebar of the Gustavus template. This will positively affect all of the pages that have that neat little blue sidebar on them. Some of the changes include: Removed built-in border from images. Added a CSS white border and faux drop-shadow. Updated links and statistics.…