First week of school...

  1. Fix homepage header
    • Removed target from the link to the VCU homepage
  2. Adjust Sitemap.html
    • Removed all references to port 83 from the sitemap page.
  3. Adjust Rotating Content System
    • Rewrote the javascript that parses the XML for the dynamic content system.
    • Adjusted the XML scheme to match the parsing system.
    • Added PubMed and Lexis Nexis to featured resource.
  4. LinkScan new site
    • Generated a list of third tier pages to be updated.
    • Found problems leading to many 404 errors.
  5. Validate Web Manual Pages
    • Moved style_new.css & print.css from production to staff.
    • Added print.css to generic_navpanel.
    • Fixed header problems on staff site.
    • Created the print icon for web manual pages.
    • Adjusted the footers' copyright to 2007.
    • Made "Staff Web" clickable from the staff header.
  6. Research custom list icons
    • Tested different icons sizes to determine the maximum icon dimensions.
  7. QuickSearch.cfm adjustments
    • Modified QuickSearch.cfm to redirect to catalog.cfm, to generate a better entry link into aleph
  8. Caching Engine
    • I have created a engine in perl that caches a website periodically to avoid slow-down due to outside resources.
    • The system uses md5 hashes to determine whether the files have changed since the last caching.