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Vanderbilt Nurse revitalized with WordPress!
Nov. 11, 2010—Vanderbilt Nurse magazine has launched a new WordPress site, focusing on news around the school. It also includes feeds from their Facebook, Twitter and Flickr accounts – information specific to the School of Nursing. We went with WordPress for them because it offers robust tagging – an important feature in such a news-heavy site. The...
New Web presence for Vandy in Hollywood program
Nov. 1, 2010—What a fun project! We had the privilege of working two Vanderbilt alumni, Chad Gervich and Rich Hull (founders of ViH), on a brand new Web presence for the Vandy in Hollywood organization. “Vandy-In-Hollywood is a professional, alumni-supported organization which provides the valuable guidance and resources that enable Vanderbilt students and alumni to navigate the...
SustainVU completely overhauls their web presence
Oct. 27, 2010—The Vanderbilt Sustainability and Environmental Management Office (SEMO) unveiled a new look for the SustainVU website on Friday, October 22. “Interest in and the variety of Vanderbilt’s sustainability initiatives has increased exponentially since the creation of the original SustainVU website in 2007,” said Andrea George, SEMO director. “To better accommodate the breadth of these efforts and...
WordPress BLOG theme for Vanderbilt
Oct. 22, 2010—Today we’re releasing a secondary version of the Vanderbilt WordPress Theme – this one is blog-centric. The BLOG THEME has all the same features of the main VU theme – but the homepage, archive pages, navigation and sidebar are geared towards a blog website and not a departmental / information website. It relies heavily on...
VU Police Department uses WP theme
Oct. 22, 2010—Marty Wright is responsible for the Vanderbilt Police Department website. When it came time to reorganize their website – he decided to download the VU WordPress theme and give it a whirl. He wanted the VUPD site to have the Vanderbilt look – and using the WP theme is a surefire way to achieve that!...
Parents and Family Programs redesigns their website
Sep. 30, 2010—Before: Dreamweaver, manually maintained pages After: WordPress. Online editing of pages, no software required; menus automatically updated when new pages added; A previously hard to maintain map that listed all of the Parents and Family Board members is now powered by a google spreadsheet. We added a news and announcements blog, fun polls for the...
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...
Center for Teaching launches new website
Aug. 8, 2010—Loved working on this site! CFT wanted to combine three separate sites they were maintaining into one with the new CFT website — their existing website, the CFT Podcast and the CFT blog. They had been maintaining the existing site entirely in Dreamweaver and were very happy to start using a content management system. We migrated...
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 :)
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...