Full Course Listing in Book Swap
11/29/2008 at 05:45 PM
We have recently added a full course listing to Book Swap. This will make it easier to find the books for the courses you are planning on taking this Spring.
For all previous listings, the course closest to the description was tagged with the listing.
We hope to make Book Swap easier to use this coming Spring semester!
Cash or Points?
11/23/2008 at 06:15 PM
If you check TuftsLife as often as I do, (You probably don't), then you might have noticed some recent changes.
We are constantly working on improving the site by adding new features and restoring old details.
Our latest updates have brought about a much larger and more helpful list of restaurants. Now, with just a quick glance, you can see if a restaurant is open or closed (by looking at the door on the list). You can also quickly see which restaurants take points.
We now have over 30 off campus restaurants in the database - and the list keeps growing. We are still trying to get a hold of updated restaurants from all of them.
If you have some menus you want to scan in, or a favorite restaurant -- let us know! Send an e-mail to team@tuftslife.com or join us at our next meeting.
P@$sw0rd
10/29/2008 at 11:43 PM
The new Tuftslife uses user accounts. These users allow people lots more flexibility with their submissions and the way the site operates.
Tuftslife is rapidly approaching 1,500 users, and we just hit our 2.5 month anniversary.
As you can imagine it's hard for all 1,500 people to remember their passwords - and now that is a problem of the past.
Tuftslife stores your password securely, so no one, not even one of the administrators can EVER see it. Unless you show someone of course. In this case, you can log on and you'll now see a change your password option.
This also means we can't find it for you if you forgot it. Another problem of the past. If you put your password in wrong, you will now see a link for forgotten passwords (http://tuftslife.com/password/new), so we can e-mail you a new one. Just remember to change this temporary password back to something you'll remember this time.
It's all in the Details
10/16/2008 at 04:29 PM
There have been many minor changes to TuftsLife recently. On our front page, we added a Tufts Daily news feed to keep you updated with campus news.
We also added a page Cultural Ticket to Boston cosponsored by the TCU Senate. Cultural Ticket has a host of links to plan many fun nights out in Boston.
Also on the front page, we have added a bar at the top to direct you to important links. Right now, we are looking for people to donate blood in the upcoming Red Cross Blood Drive sponsored by the LCS.
Additionally, the pages have been cleaned up for all the users who use Internet Explorer.
Your comments have certainly helped us shape the site over the past month and a half. Please keep the feedback rolling in for further improvements to TuftsLife.
Ride Board and Book Swap
09/25/2008 at 01:12 PM
Book Swap is up and running, albeit too late to sell books for this semester. We hit a snag in getting in a course listing from the university. Ultimately, this meant we had to change our plans for Book Swap. You can start submitting Book Swap listings by logging in and going to http://tuftslife.com/book_listings/new.
Ride Board has been working since we launched the site. However, it was not featured on the top bar of links. That has been fixed. We feel this will bring more people to post rides and to look for ways to save on gas. Post to the Ride Board by going to http://tuftslife.com/ride_requests/new when logged in.
On Campus Dining Menus
09/24/2008 at 08:58 AM
No longer do you have to trudge to Carmichael to see if they are serving your favorite potstickers or the day-old chicken pot pie.
Translation: TuftsLife finally has the on-campus dining menus.
We only have menus currently for Carmichael, but we have the capability to add Dewick menus once we get them from the manager. Expect those soon.
Other Announcements
09/17/2008 at 01:20 AM
On the old Tuftslife, we didn't allow personal announcements. If you lost your coat at Spring Fling, or wanted to find a subletter, it wouldn't be displayed; we wanted to make sure the announcements appealed to the whole campus, and didn't overcrowd the site.
On this new version, we added announcement categories to better filter Research Opportunities, Jobs, Lost and Found, and other options from genuine campus wide announcements.
Today we added a separate place on the home page for some of these more narrow but still useful announcements, under "Other Announcements." We hope this will allow you to find your research and job chances, and also some new lost and found requests, without overcrowding the homepage.
Also, if you ever want to see more announcements, click on (just that) "more announcements."
Who knows, in the not-so-distant future, we may have a small Tuftslife craigslist going on . . .
Join the TuftsLife Team (And Happy One Month Anniversary!)
09/15/2008 at 10:43 AM
With the new TuftsLife launched, we are receiving lots of good criticism. We'd like to invite anyone interested in improving the site to our general interest meeting this Tuesday, September 16 at 9PM. We are still reserving a room, and we will post that once it is all set.
You should attend our meeting if you have ideas for the site or would like to be involved in the behind-the-scenes work.
Web programmers and HTML/CSS gurus are especially needed, but you can attend even if you have no programming experience. Even if you can pick out a better color scheme for our site (we know, it sucks), please attend!
We do need the staff to bring back features from the old site, like book swap and on-campus dining menus. We hope that the new site will spark interest in bringing new members to our organization. Hope to see you tomorrow!
PS: Today marks the one-month anniversary of the new TuftsLife!
My Submissions Page
09/06/2008 at 06:12 PM
The new TuftsLife boasts the ability for users to edit and delete their submissions. However, we have not given you the ability to see all of your previous submissions in one place--until now.
By visiting http://tuftslife.com/submissions, you will see new links on the left. These will bring you to your submissions. From there, you easily modify your submissions or check on a submission's status. As always, please allow 48 hours for TuftsLife moderators to approve any edits you make.
The "submissions" link is now next to your user icon when you are logged in to further emphasize that you can quickly access your submissions.
Restaurants
09/01/2008 at 01:26 AM
We have received a lot of comments about the dining menus included in the site.
We are in the process of updating all of the restaurant hours, information, and menus and will continue to add restaurants in the coming weeks -- is your favorite missing?
We also have heard a number of comments regarding phone numbers and other information. All of this, along with Tufts dining will be back soon too!
Restaurant Missing? Write us a comment about it and we will be sure to add it soon. Better yet, are you interested in helping to grow the list of restaurants on Tuftslife? Join the team . . .
Good or Bad, We'd Like Your Feedback
08/31/2008 at 12:46 PM
The new TuftsLife has kindled emotion in many of you. We have been getting both praise and criticism. All feedback is valuable to us to help make a better web site geared toward the members of the Tufts community.
That's why we are launching a new comment system. Just log in and go to http://tuftslife.com/comments/new to submit a comment directly to us.
We require that you log in so we can contact you back directly. Also, this will eliminate the comment spam we received on the old site. Less spam means more attention to what our users want from the site.
Welcome to the brand new TuftsLife.com!
08/15/2008 at 10:00 AM
The TuftsLife team has been toiling endlessly these last few months to bring you our rejuvenated vision of TuftsLife.
Please read about the new TuftsLife on our welcome page: http://tuftslife.com/welcome. We hope you like what you see.