Launch
New Vanderbilt News site launched; new video player available campus-wide
Jun. 21, 2010—Keeping up with the latest news from Vanderbilt is now easier than ever. The redesigned Vanderbilt News website launched June 14, featuring a dramatic new look, a robust new back end and features that are available for all Vanderbilt departments. New features and technology available Video is a focal point of the new site, showcasing...
Chancellor website migrated
Jun. 17, 2010—The Chancellor’s site was pretty quickly migrated into the new Vanderbilt look, as it runs on WordPress. We simply swapped out the theme – did a quick check to be sure everything was working correctly, and it was live and updated. You gotta love content management systems and swapping out themes :)
YouTube Channel Branding Begins
Jun. 16, 2010—In an effort to try to brand the various YouTube channels that are in existence across the Vanderbilt community – today we updated the look of the main Vanderbilt YouTube channel and the Athletics channel. The Medical Center is finalizing their banner and will be updating their channel soon. With these three, we have the...
Crisis Communication – the 2010 Nashville Flood website
Jun. 5, 2010—The flood website has been a continually changing resource for the Vanderbilt community. In it’s earliest form, it was a very plain single HTML page that we built on Sunday, May 2. (18,600 unique pageviews that day). There were only a few of us who had dependable internet and phones that day; for those of...
Vanderbilt WordPress Theme Released
Jun. 4, 2010—The Vanderbilt WordPress Theme has a control panel that will allow you set many options. I’d suggest installing it – putting in a few pages and posts so you can have some content pre-populated – and then turn on and off options in the control pane that is accessible via the VANDERBILT BRAND menu at...
People Finder redesigned
Jun. 2, 2010—We collaborated with MIS (Management Information Systems) on this minimalistic redesign. At this time, it wasn’t possible to update any of the functionality of People Finder, but we could apply a new look (reskinning is the word we used). All of the data display areas (search results, individual record display, departmental display, etc.) use the...
University Calendar redesigned
May. 18, 2010—The University Calendar is all up-to-date (get it?) with a look that matches the just-launched homepage. We changed the homepage to show all of today’s events (previously, it just showed highlighted events, with an option to view all – confusing). We didn’t change the functionality or the back end of the Calendar – the data...
Logins page
May. 18, 2010—As part of the new website – we expanded upon an old student web applications page that listed the top login pages students used. We merged that into a new logins page which houses the most commonly used logins for students, faculty and staff. The mini-nav-bar at the top allows users to click on an...
Vanderbilt Brand Bar
May. 18, 2010—The Vanderbilt Brand Bar gives departments a quick and easy way to incorporate the Vanderbilt look into their site. With just one simple line of code, you can update your site to include the Vanderbilt wordmark – used correctly (no need to worry if you’re meeting the Graphics Standards Guidelines) – and the required link...
New Vanderbilt website launched
May. 17, 2010—Vanderbilt launched a new homepage on the evening of May 17, focusing on making key resources easier to find while continuing to showcase the institution’s dynamic academic, research, patient care and campus life offerings. Take a closer look at the changes » “The Web and our usage of it have evolved dramatically since we last...
Disciplines and Majors database and site launched
May. 17, 2010—A frequent request of prospective students and many across the campus was to have a centralized source of all disciplines and majors available for students at Vanderbilt. Rather than start from scratch, we approached the Vanderbilt Institutional Research Group (VIRG) to see if we could collaborate with them on creating such a tool. VIRG already...
Provost website migrated
May. 17, 2010—The Provost site was previously maintained manually. We moved all the content into WordPress, applied the Vanderbilt WordPress theme, and went live.