The home page has been updated again. This time, we have updated the way the latest news releases are displayed in the bottom-right area of the home page. In addition to the news release headline, a short excerpt from the news release is now displayed with the headline.
In addition, we now have the ability to publish these excerpts from our news releases directly to the official College Twitter account, so you can keep up with College news from within your Twitter feed.
Contact information has been added to the lists of course descriptions. Now when you view the list of course descriptions for a specific discipline, a list of faculty members will appear on the left side of the page. The list of faculty members is based on the information provided in the “disciplines taught” section of the employee directory. For instance, if you view the list of biology courses offered at the College, you will also see a list of the faculty members who indicated in their employee directory entries that they teach biology.
The home page of the College Web site has been formatted to allow six static promotional items in the bottom left area, rather than the four that were previously displayed. In addition, the colors of the home page and the list of recent news releases have been improved. Read more…
The contact form used on the Web site now includes the option to choose a general category for inquiries. This enhancement will help reduce the number of e-mail messages that are sent to the wrong recipients. The categories that have been added to the contact form are: Read more…
Throughout the Web site, wherever the physical addresses for any of the College locations appear, those addresses now link to a Mapquest Web page showing where the address is located and allowing users to easily obtain personalized directions.
The style sheets used to control the appearance of the Web site have been improved and enhanced. In addition to some stylistic changes within the style sheets themselves, the content management system (CMS) has been updated to allow these style sheets to be cached, which will help improve the speed and performance of the Web site.
Two new features have been added to the main rotating promotional area on the home page.
Promotional Carousel – A “carousel” has been added to the rotating promotional area on the home page, allowing visitors to scroll through images of the promotional items and click on the images to see enlarged versions of the promotional items.
Promotional Videos – YouTube videos can now be posted in the rotating promotional area.
The search form on the Web site has been improved to provide more accurate results. For easy access, the Web site search form has always been located at the top-right of every Web page.
The help indicators (
) used throughout the Web site on various forms have been updated. Now, rather than popping up each time you move your mouse over the icon, the additional information will only pop up when you actually click on the icon. Once the additional information has popped up, you can click on the red ‘X’ that appears in the top right corner of the information dialog. Check out the Web site contact form for an example.
As always, those users with javascript disabled will still see the additional information below the form fields.
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