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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...
Web Communications built a new website for the University Registrar in WordPress, which launched December 28, 2010. It was the first redesign and redevelopment for the site since 1997! Staff had been manually maintaining their website using Dreamweaver. We migrated all of the current pages over to WordPress, cleaned up the navigation and added search functionality...
The Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions recently launched a website using Omni. The site includes Flickr photos from their New Orleans Immersion trip. With the new site, the Cal Turner Program has standardized its websites on the Omni platform, making it easy for support staff to update all sites.Posted by Web Communications on January 4, 2011 in Launch, omni
On December 15, the MLK Series launched a WordPress site with a schedule of events, ways to get involved, and resources to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. King. Event highlights include a city-wide MLK March, Teach-ins, and a keynote speech by civil rights leader Julian Bond.
Partnering with the Undergraduate Admissions office, we updated two of their blogs with the Vanderbilt WordPress theme (blog version). The two blogs are highlighted on the admissions homepage – as well as in the righthand column on each page of the admissions website. The Admissions Office uses these to provide a personal “mouthpiece” for Vanderbilt....Posted by Lacy Tite on December 12, 2010 in Launch, admissions, blogs, wordpress
The redesigned Michael B. Keegan Traveling Fellowship site launched on December 3, 2010. The site features Flickr photo galleries, online journals and itineraries from current and former Fellows. The program awards $15,000 to allow a graduating senior the opportunity to pursue an idea or an issue, about which the student is impassioned, and to do...
The Vanderbilt Export Compliance site debuted its new look on December 3, 2010. The redesign puts news items front and center on homepage, so viewers can easily read the latest policies relating to export compliance. Upcoming seminars and training are featured in the right sidebar. This information-packed, linked-filled site is now streamlined for ease of...Posted by Web Communications on December 3, 2010 in Launch, export compliance, omni
I was recently interviewed by Karine Joly of collegewebeditor.com about using wordpress to create email newsletters. “Now the [myvu preview] email is sent out as an HTML email including thumbnails for top stories – graphical links to social media and recent videos — and other than the initial setup, I am not involved in the...
The commencement website has been updated for the Class of 2011. It’s hard to believe preparations are already in full swing for Commencement in May 2011. This site is built in WordPress – and has the VU Brand Bar at the top… a couple php/mysql functionality bits… small e-commerce section for sales of THE PARTY...
Issues in Critical Investigation (ICI) is an initiative that seeks to stimulate new scholarship in the fields of African Diasporic studies. The new website highlights ICI’s Manuscript Competition, which awards money and the opportunity for a book contract to young scholars.Posted by Web Communications on November 19, 2010 in Launch, omni
We moved the Division of Sponsored Research into our Omni system. The slider on the homepage is a great way to tell the stories of the research that is done here at Vanderbilt.
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...
We’re updating the VU Social Media Directory – please submit your department/office/organizations social media presences. If you are submitting sites for multiple organizations – please submit the form once for each organization you are reporting for.
The VISIT office launched their new website on November 4. More than just a redesign, this website features expanded information about all o the services that VISIT offers to the international community. Their goal was to provide as much information as possible online – not only to help users be more informed, but to also...
We recently worked with the Office of Student Financial Aid and Undergraduate Scholarships on redeveloping their website and bringing it into the look and feel of the main Vanderbilt Web presence. The slideshow on the homepage features beautiful photos from our Vanderbilt photographers and highlights key facts and figures about our financial aid program —...browse topics
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