Technology Services

Author: jlencion

  • JPEG, PNG, and GIF: What’s the Difference?

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    jlencion

    We see it all the time–images on the web that are saved in the wrong file formats. Unfortunately, this often worsens the visitor’s experience due to unnecessary compression artifacts in graphics, graininess and reduced colors in photographs, and overall larger than necessary file sizes that place an unneeded burden on browsers, servers, and bandwidth. But…

  • Profiles Are Now Easier to Update

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    jlencion

    We recently overhauled the mechanism that employees use to update their professional profiles, making them more powerful and easier to use.

  • A Shorter URL For You

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    jlencion

    We admit that some URLs can get a little out of hand. Thankfully, there is a solution. We can create shorter, easier to remember, redirection URLs for you in a special area of our website called /go/.

  • An Even Easier Way to Give

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    jlencion

    Just in time for the holidays, we made our online giving form even easier to use. This update should save people some time and effort when giving a gift to Gustavus.

  • On Campus Pages Brainstorming

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    jlencion

    Not many pages on the Gustavus website receive as much traffic as the On Campus page–particularly the section designed for students. We have been brainstorming some ideas on how to improve these pages for a while and want to see what you think about what we have in store.

  • The Benefits of Single Sign-On (SSO)

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    jlencion

    Single sign-on (SSO) is a mechanism that consolidates the authentication process of multiple services into one spot. This connection allows users to be logged into multiple services when they sign in to one. If you are asking yourself, “why should I care about single sign-on?” read on.

  • Single Sign-On (SSO) for Gribly, College Calendar, and more

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    jlencion

    As of this afternoon, if you log in to the Gribly, you will also be logged in to the College Calendar, Google Calendar, Moodle, and a bunch of other areas of the Gustavus website.

  • College Calendar Gets Better Search

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    jlencion

    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

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    jlencion

    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

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    jlencion

    We switched from a fee-based weather data service to use the freely available weather data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today.