Technology Services

Tag: new features

  • Tweet and Like Blog Posts and Calendar Items

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    jlencion

    Sharing your favorite Gustavus website content with your friends just got a lot easier. Today we added Twitter tweet buttons and Facebook like buttons to blog posts and calendar items.

  • Our New Mobile Website

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    jlencion

    Nobody had even heard of a smartphone when we first got the Internet at my house. Many websites were still designed with a web safe color palette of 216 colors and tiled backgrounds were the cool, new kid on the block. A MIDI and a scrolling marquee gave you street–or at least Internet–cred. In those…

  • Shorter is Still Better

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    jlencion

    In our eternal quest to optimize the Gustavus website, we removed the “academics” part of URLs.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.