Submit KeyMatches for the google search appliance
Jun. 30, 2010—A KeyMatch associates a specific term with a particular result, enabling you to direct users to a result that is especially relevant but that might not appear at the top of the results page. For example, if someone were to search for “event”, we can make sure that the top result for that search will...
OAK website collaboration
Jun. 24, 2010—OAK – Online Access to Knowledge – is using our templates and lookin’ good doing it. We helped Cindy Franco (from the Library) with information architecture and usability, and also helped integrate the Vanderbilt design elements with the Blackboard system.
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...
Get to know the GRID … 24 columns that the VU site is built on
May. 28, 2010—The Vanderbilt website backbone is a 24-column grid that is based on Blueprint. Our grid system is a condensed version of the blueprint system (for instance -we did NOT include the push and pull selectors.) The grid is 950px wide, with 24 columns spanning 30px, and a 10px margin between columns. Using a grid system...
Simple Template Files Released
May. 19, 2010—These template files are STATIC html pages. The easiest way to get them is to right click on the pages and view source, and save that as an html file on your machine. You can customize it however you want. Simple second level page template Full featured second level page template (with image slider, flickr...
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...