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VIEE Builds a Sustainable Website
Mar. 18, 2011—The Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and the Environment (VIEE) focuses on solving the problems of meeting energy demands while controlling and reversing environmental degradation. The Institute wanted an easily updatable website to explain its projects, and Omni was the perfect match. We worked with postdoc Amanda Carrico, administrative director Mike Powell and student Josh Altonji...
Psychological Sciences moves to Omni
Mar. 17, 2011—The Psychological Sciences website comprises information about both the Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Science and the Department of Psychology and Human Development at Peabody College. When we took on this migration into Omni, the previous site had been built on and expanded over the years until it was nearly bursting...
NCAA Certification – live with new Omni site
Mar. 16, 2011—The Division of Administration recently launched a new Omni website for the NCAA Division I certification process. The website includes a self-study document and a form for public comment. The certification program’s purpose is to help ensure integrity in the institution’s athletics operations. Members of the Vanderbilt community involved in the self-study process include coaches,...
University Staff Advisory Council motions for new site
Mar. 15, 2011—The University Staff Advisory Council represents Vanderbilt staff members in university central who are not in a union-eligible jobs. They came to us with the request for a fresh, new look for their website and an easy-to-maintain, centralized database to keep track of their members and committees. We moved them into Omni and created a muted color...
Neuroscience Program + WordPress = New easily maintained website
Mar. 7, 2011—Built almost entirely by the client, this website is the new online home for the Neuroscience program (an interdisciplinary concentration offered to VU undergrads drawing upon a variety of scientific disciplines ranging from molecular biology and biophysics, to computational science and engineering, to the study of behavior and cognition.) Alex Carpenter and Jen Overstreet contacted us...
Web Communications wins CASE Grand Award
Mar. 4, 2011—Huzzah! Vanderbilt Web Communications was recognized by CASE Region III with a Grand Award for the overall university Web presence and an Award of Excellence for the Vanderbilt homepage at the CASE Fusion conference in New Orleans in February. Go team!
Vanderbilt Healthcare Improvement Group goes live with WordPress site
Feb. 28, 2011—The Vanderbilt Healthcare Improvement Group (VHIG) is an interprofessional community of Vanderbilt management, medicine, and nursing students committed to advancing education and student participation in quality improvement in healthcare. The group’s new WordPress website serves as the central location for all information relating to activities of VHIG and includes a blog as well as a...
House Organ magazine launches WordPress site
Feb. 28, 2011—House Organ is the magazine for the staff, faculty, volunteers, and students of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. It is published monthly by the Office of News and Public Affairs of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Previously a manually built website, the site is now housed in WordPress. Issue archives are automatically generated, the jquery slideshow is built...
Vanderbilt Law Review goes live
Feb. 14, 2011—We assisted the Vanderbilt Law Review in updating their existing WordPress site. Prior to their redesign, they were running WordPress with approximately 18 active plugins. We were able to reduce this to only one – while also cleaning up the code and making the site run more efficiently. The Vanderbilt Law Review site is using...
Strategic Initiatives and Assessment launches new Omni site
Feb. 10, 2011—The Office of Strategic Initiatives and Assessment will use its new Omni website to foster collaborative relationships with academic departments to enhance the student living and learning experience. Omni was the perfect CMS for the site because it gives staff members an easy, intuitive way to add content. The RSS sidebar includes news feeds from...
Division of Administration redesigns with Omni
Feb. 10, 2011—The Division of Administration recently switched their content management system from Sitemason to Omni. The new site is built using the Vanderbilt template and makes it easy for staff to update text and add images. Kudos to Anna Letcher in DOA for her hard work in making this happen.
Research News @ Vanderbilt showcases discovery
Feb. 2, 2011—This week brought the long-awaited launch of Vanderbilt’s new online news channel, Research News @ Vanderbilt. The site spans the institution to showcase research from all fields and disciplines with the goal of educating and interesting a broad audience in science and discovery. Development Notes The same backend that powers the Vanderbilt News site powers...