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Off our nut: Squirrelcast

squirrel-mrc   UPDATE: Apparently the week of April 8 is Squirrel Week, and our furry foray into the world of squirrels was recognized by the Washington Post. We’re doing important work here, people. Every year, universities around the country take great pleasure in April Fool’s pranks. And every year, we sit back and watch the madness...

Posted by Beth Fox on April 2, 2013 in Launch, , , , ,

Telling the Vanderbilt Story

story-thumb This was one of those A-HA! projects that come out of nowhere and then takes over your life—but in a good way. Lacy and I were brainstorming about something or other when we had the idea to create a site that focuses on the people at Vanderbilt. Faculty. Staff. Students. Alumni. Not the research they’re...

Posted by Beth Fox on March 19, 2013 in Launch, , , ,

Provost’s presence peps up

provost-thumb When the Provost’s Office approached us about a redesign for their website – one that would be a vibrant academic hub for the university – we were on board. After all, their previous site was a little staid. And the chief academic officer of the university deserves a website that showcases our research and faculty...

Posted by Beth Fox on March 19, 2013 in Launch,

Spring cleaning for Nashville

nashville Ok, not the city of Nashville – it’s great the way it is. But our website that brags about how great Nashville is was in need of some sprucing up. Fun fact: Vanderbilt’s Nashville site was the very first site we moved into our content management system, OmniUpdate, in June of 2010. We’ve come a...

Posted by Beth Fox on March 19, 2013 in Launch, ,

We need a website TODAY: The beauty of my.vanderbilt.edu

myt “I know you guys are really busy, but – I need a website right away. Like, TODAY.” They’re the words that every project manager dreads, and hears about once a week. We understand: Work piles up, deadlines sneak up on you, you plan an entire publication around a website and then forget to ask someone...

Posted by Beth Fox on January 17, 2013 in Info, Launch, ,

Kudos to us!

twitter2012 Pardon us while we take a moment to toot our own horn. Our weekly project, “Our Favorite Tweets of the Week” has been recognized in the Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s (CASE) district competition (along with some of our outstanding colleagues in Public Affairs). “Tweets” was recognized in the social media strategy and execution category. Each...

Posted by Beth Fox on January 10, 2013 in Info, , , , ,

How To Edit Your Slider Images

step5 Sometimes your slider images aren’t big enough to fit in your slider. Other times you may need to resize them so that your left caption box doesn’t block someone’s face. Here’s how to do that. Open and resize your image in Photoshop. Many of our sliders are 650×300, but you should double check your dimensions...

Posted by Beth Fox on August 21, 2012 in Omni Tutorial, WordPress Tutorial, , , ,

Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health launches a new WordPress site

vigh-thumb We love a good partnership, and that’s exactly what we have with the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health. We set up a WordPress install for Kristin Centers from VIGH, and she took it from there, designing her own header and migrating all of her own content. We simply provided any needed help and support along the...

Posted by Beth Fox on May 29, 2012 in Launch,

CNGR joins the Omni community

cngr The Office of Community, Neighborhood and Government Relations has been redesigned and moved into Omni; the new site debuted April 9. This site launch is step one in a four-step process: eventually, the other CNGR sites – The Virtual School, Osher Lifelong Learning and Dyer Observatory – will all be redesigned and moved into one...

Posted by Beth Fox on April 10, 2012 in Launch,

The Blair String Quartet’s new site is music to our ears

blair-string-quartet We launched the updated Blair String Quartet site on March 1, 2012. The previous string quartet site was maintained in Sitemason and had not been redesigned since 2002. The site needed to have an elegant look, a place for individual bios, downloadable hi-res photos and recordings of their performances – and be easy to maintain...

Posted by Beth Fox on March 5, 2012 in Launch, , , ,

U.S.-Japan center moves into my.vanderbilt.edu

japan-thumb When the Center for U.S.-Japan Studies and Cooperation approached us about a new site, we knew my.vanderbilt.edu would be a great fit for them: They’re a small site (fewer than 10 pages) and my.vanderbilt is perfect for smaller departments (such as the French Graduate Studies program). We designed a custom header for them and migrated...

Posted by Beth Fox on November 3, 2011 in Launch, ,

New site for French and Italian: C’est magnifique!

frenchitalthumb When the Department of French and Italian contacted us to move their site from Sitemason to WordPress, we of course said oui! Their timeline was a little more pressing than our schedule allowed, so we set up the WordPress install for them and their webmaster, Veronique, took it from there – she even designed the...

Posted by Beth Fox on November 3, 2011 in Launch, , ,

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