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mobile

Campus Map–Going Responsive

by Michael Santoroski on October 29, 2012

With the huge growth in smartphones and tablets it is time for our campus map to go responsive. We have embarked on a project with our partner New City Media to replace our Flash based campus map with a new responsive maps based upon HTML5 and CSS3. Here are some screen shot previews:

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New Features of Our Mobile Site–Coming Soon

by Michael Santoroski on April 28, 2011

We are working on add a new (third) row of icons to our mobile home site. Right now they are: Admissions Alumni Majors Awards But, of course this is subject to change. Check out some screen shots below, and hit up the comments link with your feedback. Admissions: Alumni: Majors: Awards:

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jQuery and Mobile Web Development

by Caleb Pierce on February 25, 2010

We use jQuery in most of our web applications for form validation, showing/hiding content, and the like. With the release of our new mobile site, we were faced with a set of challenges specific to mobile applications, and we used jQuery to address a number of them. Heavy Content When developing for the the limited bandwidth [...]

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New Mobile Site Launched!

by Michael Santoroski on February 17, 2010

We officially launched the new mobile website that is optimized for webkit based mobile devices like the iPhone/iPod Touch, Android and Palm Pre/Pixi. Access the site by going to:  i.roanoke.edu New City from Blacksburg, Virginia designed the site and my team of crack student programmers hooked up the backend with some coldfusion and javascript code. [...]

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2010 Mobile Strategy

by Michael Santoroski on February 15, 2010

2010 is going to be a big year for the Roanoke College mobile strategy. Right now we have four initiatives for the year. #1 – New iPhone/Android Home Page Now in “preview” at i.roanoke.edu, our new home page was designed by New City in Blacksburg, Va, who also designed our home page and sports page. [...]

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