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Video on the homepage

by Whitney Anderson on May 10, 2010

We just launched a new look on the homepage by replacing our large image/flash area with a new video flash piece.  I’m really pleased with the way it turned out.  The concept and design was done in house and then our friends at New City helped us with some tweaks and built it for us.  [...]

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Video is coming soon to our homepage

by Whitney Anderson on March 29, 2010

The Roanoke College homepage has a large flash area that is currently photos and text.   We’ve been thinking about replacing it for some time, but weren’t sure exactly what we wanted to do. Current: We knew that from a content standpoint we wanted to feature our branding and messaging, and we knew that we wanted [...]

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Site Search now hosted by Google

by Michael Santoroski on March 17, 2010

We have used the Google Mini search appliance for the last 4 years, and while we have been generally pleased, we outgrow out document limit of 100,000 about a year ago. When the document limit filled up new documents were getting indexed. We were planning to upgrade it in FY20100, however, I found out Google [...]

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Campus Map

by Whitney Anderson on January 6, 2009

We got the demo of our new campus map yesterday from New City Media.   We really like it.  The zoom in and out works great, the filters work great and overall I think it is very usable.  We have requested one change with the way the it functions when you click on the building names [...]

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Easy, custom flash photo galleries – Slideshow Pro Director to the rescue

by Whitney Anderson on December 11, 2008

So, we’ve been using Slideshow Pro here for a long time, as has probably at least half of the higher ed community.  [Example gallery] It’s been used in conjunction with a web app written by my colleague, Michael.    However, it’s been a real pain to do these galleries. Here’s a few of the problems I’ve [...]

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New site launch – classiccollege.com

by Whitney Anderson on April 18, 2008

We launched classiccollege.com this week. This site is the culmination of our new messaging launch, a mascot contest, and just a chance to to have fun with our work. We are a classic college, but don’t have a mascot. We thought it would be funny to show people what we don’t want for a mascot, [...]

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Roanoke College Mobile

by Michael Santoroski on January 28, 2008

During lunch on Friday we hatched the specifics of a long brewing plan to do a mobile version of the website. It is something I have thought about for 3 – 4 years, but with all the work I have done recently parsing XML files and images, I realized I finally had all the skills [...]

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New Projects

by Michael Santoroski on December 4, 2007

I have been mad at work on a new project called “Maroon Passport.” Basically it is information collection and report generating website. Not very exciting, but somewhat detailed non-the-less. This is going to be a coldfusion / mssql project. I am looking to use some AJAX, but really don’t see anything special going on here. [...]

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