Category Archives: Guerrilla Gardening the Institutional Web

An operation in stealth upgrades to academic website provision

#152
Course Finder update

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Anthony

An illustrated update on the Guerrilla Gardening Project showing how the new Course Finder’s adoption has meant some more work and many improved features. Continue reading →

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#150
Course Finder Demo App for Iphone

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Anthony

Course Finder Demo App for Iphone Here’s the Iphone & Touch version of the newly spruced Course Finder. The function is far more simple than the conventional web version, just select your award and then locate a course from the … Continue reading →

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#149
Course Finder Demo

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Anthony

Here’s the presentable, standalone variant of the demonstration Course Finder I showed at BathCamp. note: Compatibility View required for IE8, I’m working to fix this now. It’s probably best viewed on this project’s category page. Tested in a handful of … Continue reading →

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#146
Planting courses in the Guerrilla Garden

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Anthony

Prototype growing nicely View the category Guerrilla Gardening for the full story Here’re some screens of the new AJAX driven course finder. I’ll shortly add a hosted example but in the meantime the screens are sufficient to discuss some of … Continue reading →

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#145
Guerilla Gardening, day three – UI refinement

Posted on September 13, 2009 by Anthony

Got content.  Got concept. View the category Guerrilla Gardening for the full story On day one I had a rough plan of how to make the improvements to the Courses UI. How it’ll work The pencil sketch above is a … Continue reading →

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#144
Guerrilla Gardening, day two

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Anthony

View the category Guerrilla Gardening for the full story Adapting the Course page content Any hopes of getting hold of a clean and complete data source of every course’s details were soon dashed. The CMS – which of course thinks … Continue reading →

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#143
Guerilla Gardening, day one

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Anthony

Plot Chosen. The Courses area. View the category Guerrilla Gardening for the full story It’s a high traffic part of the site presenting probably the most important pre-application content we have.  Over the years it’s had gradual improvements, most notably … Continue reading →

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