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social.vanderbilt.edu – VU social media, all in one place
Feb. 1, 2011—Having trouble keeping up with all that’s going on at Vanderbilt? Heard of Twitter and Flickr but not sure what they are? Knee deep in social media but looking for a way to pull it all together? A new website, get.social@vanderbilt, helps meet all of these needs by aggregating Vanderbilt’s main social media accounts on Facebook,...
Traffic and Parking parks their new website
Jan. 26, 2011—Traffic and Parking approached us about redeveloping their website, and moving it towards a more Vanderbilt branded look while also simplifying some of their daily data processes. We migrated them into Omni, redeveloped their entire events management system into an easy to use, simplifed php/mysql application. Reports can now be generated with the click of...
Division of Animal Care migrates from Drupal to Omni
Jan. 4, 2011—The Division of Animal Care approached us about migrating their site from a Drupal installation to Omni. They were hosted with an external vendor and had been working with a third party design and development firm. They had numerous issues both with using Drupal and with authenticating through VUnetID. We moved them in-house onto Vanderbilt’s...
Video: Drupal @ Vanderbilt: an overview of current projects
Oct. 28, 2010—As part of the DigitalVU month-long series on Web technologies here at Vanderbilt, three of Vanderbilt’s drupal developers gave an overview of their recent drupal projects and share tips and tricks they’ve picked up along the way. (For those not already in-the-know, drupal is an open-source web content management system written in the ubiquitous PHP...
Software Store launched in time for Move In weekend!
Aug. 23, 2010—ITS contacted our office for some assistance in trying to simplify their software store options. There are now two stores — and depending upon who you are and how you will pay for the products — you need to go to different stores. There are products that you can buy at both stores; some manufacturers only...
Department of Political Science launches website
Aug. 20, 2010—Our work with the Department of Political Science has truly been a pleasure. They’ve been extremely organized and were very invested in building out an informative and useful website for their department. We worked primarily with associate professors Cindy Kam, Josh Clinton and Elizabeth Zechmeister. One thing I appreciated most about working with PSCI: they...
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions website launches
Aug. 20, 2010—We worked with CSDI co-director and assistant professor Josh Clinton on migrating the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions website. Previously – this was a site maintained manually with no centralized content management system. Within a two weeks period, we moved the content into Omni, redesigned it with a new color scheme, banner, slider...
myVU gets brand bar, php templates and more!
Jul. 22, 2010—This was another fairly quick template swap. The old myVU templates were xsl, we moved them over to php, updated some stylesheets, added the VU brandbar, added a new video player that displays videos from the VUCast playlist and launched. We’ll be cleaning up the site over the coming weeks – but our goal was...
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...
Reunion website launched
Mar. 21, 2010—We assisted DAR Communications in the redesign and development of the Reunion website. The site is a combo of wordpress pages and custom php/mysql scripts. Most of the site content and class pages are in wordpress. The VandyGrams (e-postcards alums can send to each other with classic images from their time at Vanderbilt) and the...
VU Commodores on Twitter launched
Feb. 4, 2010—
Vanderbilt on Twitter
Jan. 29, 2010—Interested in Twitter, but not sure where to start? Using Twitter, but feeling overwhelmed by the millions of tweets flowing across the site each day? Have no idea what Twitter is, and wondering what the fuss is all about? A new Web site, http://twitter.vanderbilt.edu, aims to help members of the Vanderbilt community meet each of...