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Upcoming changes to the university events calendar

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Something big is happening to the university Events Calendar.
A little bit ago Rob Vrabel mentioned we were working on the events calendar and I would like to confirm that we are and we have some great things in store.
We will be running down all the new features in detail closer to launch but here are [...]

Web site request bookmarklet

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

All Web site requests come in through our wcs[at]wayne.edu email account. Recently we’ve been testing a ticket system called Tender to keep track of all these emails. It has worked well but still has not solved the true issue we are facing so we are not going to continue using it.
The issue comes down to [...]

Linking to buildings on the campus map just got easier

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

If you use the online Campus Map to directly link to a building you will notice some changes today with the building and category list page. We added some additional information about every building on the map. Check out the old version (left) and the new version (right) above. Here is also run down of [...]

Task of indexing all Wayne State Web sites

Friday, March 20th, 2009

There are a lot of web sites at the university, we are not sure the total number but we know its growing every day. In order to keep the order we have a two fold site index linked from wayne.edu. You can find it on the top right of the page called “A-Z Site Index”.

The [...]

Eateries now available on Campus Map

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

Looking for a place to eat on campus?
Well search no further, check out Wayne State Campus Map for food venues around campus!
If you are not familiar with our campus map, click here

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iCal makes its debut on the events calendar

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

We are proud to announce you can now subscribe to any calendar via iCal or save any individual event in iCal format. This will allow anyone to keep up with university events without having to check site every day. Just subscribe to a category of event you are interested in or a specific calendar.
Subscriptions
You can [...]

Upcoming Feature: Auto Suggest

Monday, January 7th, 2008

We are testing a new feature on the WSU homepage. It is designed to allow for quick access to the most common WSU sites right from the search field.
It works by using the characters typed into the search box on the homepage and comparing them with the site index. It finds the top 5 matches [...]