Technology Services

Category: Web Services

  • Local Navigation Context Clues

    Local Navigation Context Clues

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    jlencion

    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…

  • E-mail Password Policy

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    nsonsteb

    Starting this October 15th, Gustavus Technology Services is requiring that users change their Gustavus e-mail passwords at least once per year. If you have changed your password recently, you do not need to take action at this time. For those of you that received an e-mail from Ethan Sommer on Thursday October 9th regarding your…

  • Review: Web Form Design by Luke Wroblewski

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    jlencion

    There’s a pretty good chance that you will fill out a form today… and tomorrow… and the next day. Forms are everywhere you look–we rely on them for nearly everything from searching for information to ordering some goods to balancing your checkbook.

  • Google Calendar Training

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    nsonsteb

    If you were not able to make it to the Google Calendar Training session on Tuesday, there will be another training session tomorrow, July 24th, 2008, at 3:30pm in Olin 124. For more information, please visit our wiki article. Gustavus’ Google Calendar will enable you to: * Keep track of your schedule using an easy…

  • Campus Electricity Usage

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    jlencion

    We have revamped the campus electricity usage page that Core Services released last March with a new look and a new feature just in time for the National Campus Energy Challenge 2008.

  • Events on the TV

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    jlencion

    We recently put a new system live that pulls events from the college calendar to the closed-circuit channel 8 on campus–which includes the television sets in the campus center.

  • A Work in Progress: Dual-Boot Classroom

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    nsonsteb

    Today, we have put the finishing touches on our first dual-boot computer lab. However, this indeed is a work in progress. Our dual-boot classroom is located in the Olin Technology Center’s teaching computer lab. The lab consists of 9 Mac Mini’s that are running both Mac OSX Tiger and Windows XP. When you sit down…

  • 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…

  • Fixing broken PNG uploads with MediaWiki

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    jlencion

    Our Technology Services wiki is powered by MediaWiki—the same software that powers Wikipedia. So far, most things have worked relatively well for us. Even a few upgrades have gone pretty smoothly. The problem However, when we moved to a new server last week, we were stuck with a puzzling problem. Any images in PNG format…

  • Improved File Not Found Error 404 Page

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    jlencion

    We upgraded our File Not Found Error 404 page today. This upgrade offers three exciting improvements that should help to eliminate confusion, calm nerves, and, in the end, improve the Gustavus website. Here’s a rundown of the three most significant new features: 1. Friendlier, more helpful error message We re-examined the text of the message…