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  • Corpse Flower (Titan Arum) Webcam Vista Sidebar Gadgets

    Corpse Flower (Titan Arum) Webcam Vista Sidebar Gadgets

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    jlencion

    If you have been following the Corpse Flower webcam and are currently running Windows Vista, we have some exciting news for you. We have created a sidebar gadget for each of the three angles featured on our webcam page. Webcam A Webcam B Webcam C Note: to use these gadgets you must be running Windows…

  • Office Hours Now on Schedules

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    jlencion

    After a brief period without office hour information in the schedules, we are very happy to announce the re-addition of office hours and other non-course information (such as department meetings, lunches, and research times) to schedules. We hope that the schedules will be even more informative and useful than ever with this non-course information. Scheduling…

  • Automatic Pull-quotes with Behaviour and CSS

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    jlencion

    Our new favorite toy around here is automatic pull-quotes using Javascript and CSS. We wanted an elegant and aesthetically pleasing way to add interest, gravitas, and improve the scannability of some of our pages, especially when an image is unavailable or inappropriate. After a little digging around, we discovered that Roger Johansson at 456 Berea…

  • Browsing Schedules

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    jlencion

    Starting right now, you can browse through schedules using the handy new “previous week” and “next week” links. If you ever lose your way while browsing, simply use the “this week” link to jump back to the current week. We’ve been planning for this feature for a while and are happy to see it go…

  • Room Schedules

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    jlencion

    After putting the new schedule system live in January, we began to explore new ways that people wanted to see schedules displayed. In GTS we identified that being able to easily see when rooms were scheduled for class would simplify many day-to-day tasks for a number of people. Today, we announce room schedules. Is this…

  • Schedule Quick Links are Back

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    jlencion

    After receiving some helpful comments from our feedback form on the top of every page (yes, we are listening :), we put the quick links back on the list of schedules. These links help you find the information you are looking for by providing a quick jump to each letter in the alphabet. We know…

  • Gribly gets some new features

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    jeremy

    We updated the Gribly with some new features today. The most prominent is paginated search results. In previous versions, results were limited to the first 100 people. Now, the entire search result is made available in shorter, faster rendering pages. Choosing how to search has also changed. We moved the links to Basic and Advanced…

  • A College Calendar face-lift

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    jlencion

    The College Calendar is an important hub of information. It is the centralized source of all events at Gustavus. The calendar received a small but substantial face-lift yesterday to help improve its usability. Here is a rundown of the most important changes. Shorter, smarter URLs Similar to the effort to shorten many of our URLs…

  • New Search Results

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    jlencion

    Along with Google’s announcement of the new Google Custom Search Engine, we are happy to announce that we are using the service for search results on the Gustavus website. Combined with the search cloud that we added in August, we believe that searching for pages on the Gustavus website has never been better. The new…