Technology Services

Tag: News

  • Webmail Upgrade

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    nsonsteb

    Today, Gustavus Technology Services has upgraded the Gustavus Webmail system newest version. We are currently using Horde IMP 4.1 as our webmail system. Here is a quick list of major changes compared to our last version: Virtual Inbox and Virtual Trash folder. “Empty Spam” menu item. Stationery and form responses. Not necessary to click on…

  • Technology Helpline’s Summer Hours

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    nsonsteb

    The Technology Helpline has officially moved to Summer Hours. We are available from 8am-4:45pm, Monday through Friday. You can still leave voicemail and email at anytime. We will be checking these messages every weekday morning and throughout the daytime hours.

  • May 10th – Last Day for Network Fix Day

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    nsonsteb

    The Technology Helpline’s service – Network Fix Day – will no longer except computers for this school year after May 10th, 2006. We will continue to work on the computers we do have until they are finished. We wish everyone luck with Finals and great end of the school year.

  • User Services/Library Position – HIRED

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    nsonsteb

    We have great news! Jessie Twaddle has accepted the User Services/Library position and will be starting in June. He will be replacing Kathy Spexet.

  • New News is Good News

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    jlencion

    The News page received an upgrade today that incorporates events and announcements from the College Calendar among other feature and usability enhancements. Some of the additional updates are: Accordian-style sliders implemented for story summaries Implemented Lightbox JS on story images Upgraded the algorithm that processes story bodies from the database into XHTML format to use…

  • XHTMLParagraphFormat Version 2

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    jlencion

    UPDATE (Oct 23, 2006): This version of XHTMLParagraphFormat() is out of date. If you wish, you should check out the latest version. Unfortunately, I found a major error in the previously posted XHTMLParagraphFormat() function that caused it to not work properly under many circumstances. However, after doing some more research and testing, I banged out…

  • XHTMLParagraphFormat()

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    jlencion

    UPDATE (Oct 23, 2006): This version of XHTMLParagraphFormat() is out of date. If you wish, you should check out the latest version. While reworking the athletics site, I realized that it was time to improve our less than perfect method for displaying news stories as HTML. The first obvious solution for formatting a chunk of…

  • News 2.1.1

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    jlencion

    News 2.1.1 is now live. We identified and fixed a small CSS bug from News 2.1.0 that showed up under IE on my Windows XP machine. The problem was that the links in the menubar had not been given a specific width. The idea behind this technique was that they would automatically stretch to the…

  • News 2.1.0

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    jlencion

    I just finished the news 2.1.0 upgrade and put it live. This is the latest upgrade since I finished 2.0.1 in April. For the most part, visitors to sites that use the news software will see no change as nearly all of the updates deal with the administrative side. The biggest improvements affect the new…