Mobile Web Project

Second Feedburner test

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:15:15 PST

Trying with a non scu.edu email address.

Feedburner test

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:28:52 PST

Testing email subscription from Feedburner.

Reunions mobile site

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:25:19 PST

The Alumni association developed a set of informational pages for the recent Grand Reunion weekend, which included event schedules, faqs, campus map, shuttle and parking information. Providing this information on SCU Mobile is an added convenience for event attendees, and a similar approach would be recommended for other large-scale multi-day events on campus.

Room Reservations added

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:22:16 PST

SCU faculty, staff and students can now make room reservations in the Learning Commons & Library and in Lucas Hall using SCU Mobile. This had previously only provided a view of current availability - that's still provided, but is extended to allow you to reserve an available room using your mobile device.

Webcams added

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:03:31 PST

The two campus webcam views, in the Mission Gardens and the Benson Fountain, are now available in the mobile site. Look for 'SCU Webcams' in the News section. Mobile visitors to the standard webcam page will be presented with the option to switch to the mobile view.

http://m.scu.edu/webcams

Career Center BroncoTrak Job Listings

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:31:21 PST

The mobile site now includes student job listings posted in the Career Center's BroncoTrak system.

Event Calendar design update

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:28:27 PST

The mobile event calendar has been updated to allow users to view events beyond the current day - there are options to advance the daily view forward by day, view a summary of the next 90 days, or view the calendar by calendar month.

Redirecting mobile users from www.scu.edu

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:16:00 PST

We're trying something new in the main www.scu.edu site - if someone accesses the standard SCU site using a mobile device (limited to devices that use Javascript), we're displaying a small dialog box that offers to redirect the visitor to the equivalent content on the mobile site. This is now in place for the SCU home page, press releases, course catalog, directory, campus map, library room reservations, and a few other pages.

If the visitor selects the mobile version, we save that preference in the client's browser (for two weeks). The visitor can switch back to the standard version of the mobile site's content by following a "view standard Web page" link.

Updates to mobile course catalog

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:31:00 PST

We've added a couple of things to the mobile site's course catalog section. The class location text in the class detail view is now linked to the mobile campus map. And a new subcategory has been added to the Catalog section for the SCU Summer Program. This includes an overview of the program, schedule, and lists of classes offered in the various sessions.

Room Reservations

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:25:07 PST

We're working on another new feature for the mobile site; a list of rooms available to reserve for meetings in the new library. Initially this may not offer the ability to actually reserve a room, but will show what's available at the moment.

Mobile Courseavail Search

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:51:50 PST

A search form has been added to the Catalog section of the mobile site. This search form is similar to the "quick search" in Courseavail - you can enter a partial text string, a 5-digit class number, a subject code, or subject and course number, along with a selected term to access course offerings and seats remaining for specific classes.

University library mobile sites

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:58:16 PST

There's an interesting overview available of NC State's mobile initiative for their library.

Caltrain schedule added

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:26:15 PST

A link to the iCaltrain mobile app has been added to the "around scu" menu in the map section of the mobile site. There are likely more opportunities here to expand to include more local transit schedules.

iTunes U added to News

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:15:00 PST

A link to SCU's iTunes U store has been added to the News section of the mobile site.

SCU YouTube channel added

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:36:00 PST

SCU's YouTube channel has been added to the list of resources found in the News section of the mobile site.

Mobile site published

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:35:00 PST

The mobile site is now hosted on the SCU production Web servers, and can be found at either of the following URLs:

http://m.scu.edu

http://mobile.scu.edu

Suggested modifications applied

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:16:22 PST

The mobile homepage images now function as links to the featured articles.
News items include the publication date & time from the RSS feed.
The Directory Quick Reference list items now link to the related organization listing.

Campus Events RSS feed

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:50:42 PST

There are recurring problems with the RSS feed for campus events, where non-standard characters are included in the XML file. This causes errors in the display of the event listing in the mobile site. The RSS feed generator has been modified to exclude an aggregated feed that had been contributing to this problem.

Home page features

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:59:48 PST

The home page features are now queried directly from the blog database rather than selected from the associated RSS feed. This will ensure that the mobile version is in sync with the standard SCU home page. The RSS feed will include all items, regardless of their current featured status.

XSLT for feature phones

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:20:00 PST

The first version of the XSLT for feature phones and other mobile devices has been completed. The application will attempt to detect the user-agent in each request and use switch between the two XSL transformations depending on the capabilities of the device. Our user survey indicated that users would most likely access the mobile site using iPhone or similar devices; the feature phone XSLT will enable access to content for devices with limited screen size and browsers without CSS or Javascript support.