Don’t See Any Course Listings?

admin — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:18:17 +0000

UPDATE, Jan 18th 2010: We’ve tracked down the invisible course listings bug to people using Safari 3.2 or earlier. Mac users (or misguided Windows users), please update to Safari 4.0 – which you should be doing anyway to patch up web browser vulnerabilities.

We’re not sure why the course listings aren’t showing up for some people. We have a hunch as to what’s going on, but it doesn’t really make much sense. Please, tell us. It’s the only way we can fix it, because we can’t replicate the bug on our own computers. To help us help you, please e-mail us with the following information and include “Invisible Course Listings” in the subject line, or leave a comment below…

Take a screenshot of what you see at http://www.decal.org/courses/ and paste it into a JPEG and attach it to the e-mail.
What operating system are you using?
What browser are you using?
What ISP are you using?
Can you see every other page on the DeCal website okay? (I’m assuming you can, since you’re reading this?)

E-mail it to decalprogram@gmail.com — thanks.

Our New Digs

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:48:39 +0000

(NOTE: DeCal is a student-run organization that is on vacation for the winter break. You can still e-mail us, but don’t expect a reply for a while.)

But in the meantime, we’ve upgraded the website to be less ugly and dropped support for 800 pixel-wide screen resolutions because our site stats suggest most of you are using modern computers. We’ve also streamlined a lot of the navigation to help you find what you’re looking for, and to make it easier for us to update the website.

Here’s the full changelog:

Site is now less ugly.
Added flickr photostream on the front page.
Added stats on the front page – we estimate the “capacity for students” by adding together all the class size numbers the facilitators give us (though if they leave the field blank, we assume a fairly conservative class size of 15)
Added dropdown menus on the navigation bar.
The “class location” for each course is now a Google Maps link. It usually works pretty well.
Fixed some bugs with filtering for courses… though there are still some other bugs that are difficult to resolve. Some combinations of filters will result in some incorrect displays. It’s a bit worrisome, but I’d say it works well for the most part as long as you’re careful.

Still left to do:

Fix page styles for all the facilitator control panel pages
Streamline the admin control panels on our end
Improve the “Favorite Courses” feature
Fill out the other two FAQs

Got feature requests or suggestions? Let us know.