CampusVersed Archive

Search Engine

By
Garrett
Published: June 5, 2009Posted in: CampusVersed, Internet & Technology, WebsitesTags: , , , , , , , ,
Search Engine

Hey everyone!

So I’m getting back into the development of the main site and have been toying around with some search engine and spider ideas. Any of my technical users out there know of a good, linux-compatible, database driven search engine?

For the non-technical users, what features would you be interested in when looking for a search engine?

Leave comments or send an email to webmaster [at] campusversed [dot] com if you have any ideas or suggestions.

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New Layout

By
Garrett
Published: June 1, 2009Posted in: CampusVersed, Internet & Technology, WebsitesTags: , , ,
New Layout

Hey there! Just a short post to let you all know that we found a much better theme for the site. Now you can read things a little better. As always, we value our users’ input so I’m putting up a poll.

Happy Summer by the way! I think everyone is out of school by now.. or starting for the summer.

Do you like the new theme?

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One Week, Three Days – And Counting

By
Garrett
Published: May 10, 2009Posted in: CampusVersedTags: , , , , ,
One Week, Three Days – And Counting

Hey everyone,

So, the work on the site is reaching its 1.5 week mark. This seems like a short period of time. However, when you consider how few hours of sleep I’ve gotten it is a while. And, if you consider how my normal procrastination time has been shifted to what I like to call productination time it becomes epic. I just looked it up and someone has already claimed that word, which disappoints me. So here’s some quick news for you:

  • Site is still not ready for Internet Explorer
    • Macs are better anyways and whoever uses Internet Explorer on a Mac is literally retarded. Thanks.
  • Final ad banner placement has been decided. Seems fairly unobtrusive to me.
  • Backend for posting pages complete, working on integration now
  • I’m already celebrating over 1,000 views on a site that isn’t live yet. (They’re not me)
  • The under construction page looks awful. I was going to work on it but then decided that time could be spent better updating the actual site.
  • Home page school search box now searches schools more quickly and instantly displays results.
  • Sitemap is self-updating and interactive now (sort of.)
  • Over 10,000 lines of code now.. and counting.
  • Still working on the scripts to post view and comment numbers.
  • Some of the pages were just put on there as blank pages or duplicates as placeholders
  • I’m going on another 30 hours of no sleep. I’ve created the ultimate finals week.

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Welcome!

By
Garrett
Published: May 10, 2009Posted in: Campus Life, CampusVersedTags: , , , , , ,
Welcome!

Hey everyone, I just want to welcome you all to our new blog. This is designed to accompany CampusVersed.com in order to do a little bit of everything. First and foremost, it will give users information when site updates are performed. Perhaps more fun though will be the other media we hope to share including youtube content and the best and worst posts of the week. Enjoy!

And it seemed well-suited that I post the “Honest College Ad” in my first post here.