Tag: hCalendar

  • Calendar Events in Google Search Results

    Google has recently started showing our calendar events next to many search results at Gustavus. Want to know what’s happening at Gustavus? Search for gustavus. Wondering when the next big game is? Search for gustavus football. Curious about what the SAO has been up to? Search for gustavus student activities. This magic is possible because…

  • How to Find Free Images

    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…

  • College Calendar Redesigned

    One of the oldest, largest, and most important pieces of the Gustavus website, the College Calendar was just rethought, redesigned, reprogrammed, and released.

  • What microformats mean to you

    Recently we’ve highlighted a few instances where we’ve incorporated microformats into web applications and websites (e.g. faculty schedules and the 2006 Nobel Conference site). We’ve even hinted that more microformat-enabled goodies are in the works, yet we’ve only given very cursory overviews as to their purpose, importance, and usage. Rather than embark on our own…

  • 2006 Nobel Conference Website

    The 2006 Nobel Conference website, featuring an original design by Jerry Nowell, is now live. The cool feature on this year’s Nobel Conference website is the slick implementation of the hCalendar microformat on the Conference’s schedule page and the hCard microformat on the presenter pages and schedule page. This will allow software that can recognize…