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.
It’s alive… homepage launched!
May. 17, 2010—We are happy to announce the new Vanderbilt homepage launched on the evening of May 17. Many thanks to the readers of the redesign blog who provided invaluable input throughout this process. Take it for a spin, being sure to check out the new second levels, tools, fat footer and megadropdowns, and let us know what...
April digitalVU meeting
Apr. 30, 2010—Anna Belle Leiserson from the Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center talks about what’s new in Web technologies, with topics including HTML5, changes in browsers / OS, Apple vs. Adobe and what it means for us, the mobile Web and Google adding speed to their algorithm. John Brassil from ITS talks about their new streaming delivery platform....
Progress of the migration of news site data
Apr. 30, 2010—We’ve been chugging along on the Vanderbilt News site migration over the past several weeks. Once we finally made the decision that we would definitely be going with WordPress as the backend, we could finally start working out the process for migrating approximately 4,000 pages from the old CMS. It was a 4 step process...
Social media handbook released
Apr. 8, 2010—A new handbook for university faculty and staff wishing to use social media tools such as Facebook or Twitter to promote their program, research or department is now available. The handbook is available online. The handbook, produced by the Office of University Web Communications in the Division of Public Affairs, includes: An overview of how...
Redesign Updates – April 1
Apr. 1, 2010—Thanks so much to everyone who has commented, emailed and called about the ongoing redesign process. We have received invaluable input from students, faculty and staff all across the Vanderbilt community. Last week, we had an evening focus group with several current Vanderbilt students. They did a card sort for the current Students second level...
Peabody Research Office Email Template
Mar. 30, 2010—We assisted Thom Garrison in the Peabody Research Office in creating a template for an email newsletter that goes out to PI’s on possible funding for their research.
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...
Center for Latin American Studies website launched
Mar. 16, 2010—The Center for Latin American Studies wanted to make their site easier to update. They also wanted to have consistency in fonts and page layout. Another item on their wishlist was for a new navigation that would get visitors to their content as quickly and easily as possible. We solved all these problems by migrating...