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Admissions, reimagined and simplified
Simplify. Simplify. Simplify. That was the overarching theme of many of our discussions with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions when imagining a new Web presence. Let’s step back and make things easier for the user. Focus on the key MESSAGES that UoA wants to get out there about Vanderbilt. What are the key ACTIONS we...... KEEP READING »
Launch, admissions, jquery, mysql, news, omni, php, social media, wordpress, youtube
Posted by Lacy Tite
January 27, 2012
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vanderbi.lt link shortener
Have you seen the new vanderbi.lt shortened links appearing around the interwebs (especially on @VanderbiltU‘s Twitter account?) We recently launched a link shortening service for Vanderbilt: vanderbi.lt. Rather than using a generic shortener like bit.ly or ow.ly – we decided we’d like to have a branded solution that clearly shows that the content is from...... KEEP READING »
Psychological Sciences moves to Omni
The Psychological Sciences website comprises information about both the Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Science and the Department of Psychology and Human Development at Peabody College. When we took on this migration into Omni, the previous site had been built on and expanded over the years until it was nearly bursting...... KEEP READING »
University Staff Advisory Council motions for new site
The University Staff Advisory Council represents Vanderbilt staff members in university central who are not in a union-eligible jobs. They came to us with the request for a fresh, new look for their website and an easy-to-maintain, centralized database to keep track of their members and committees. We moved them into Omni and created a muted color...... KEEP READING »
social.vanderbilt.edu – VU social media, all in one place
Having trouble keeping up with all that’s going on at Vanderbilt? Heard of Twitter and Flickr but not sure what they are? Knee deep in social media but looking for a way to pull it all together? A new website, get.social@vanderbilt, helps meet all of these needs by aggregating Vanderbilt’s main social media accounts on Facebook,...... KEEP READING »
Launch, calendar, facebook, flickr, nashville, php, social media, twitter, wordpress, youtube
Posted by Lacy Tite
February 1, 2011
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Traffic and Parking parks their new website
Traffic and Parking approached us about redeveloping their website, and moving it towards a more Vanderbilt branded look while also simplifying some of their daily data processes. We migrated them into Omni, redeveloped their entire events management system into an easy to use, simplifed php/mysql application. Reports can now be generated with the click of...... KEEP READING »
Division of Animal Care migrates from Drupal to Omni
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...... KEEP READING »
Video: Drupal @ Vanderbilt: an overview of current projects
As part of the DigitalVU month-long series on Web technologies here at Vanderbilt, three of Vanderbilt’s drupal developers gave an overview of their recent drupal projects and share tips and tricks they’ve picked up along the way. (For those not already in-the-know, drupal is an open-source web content management system written in the ubiquitous PHP...... KEEP READING »
digitalVU, CMS, digitalvu, digitalvu2010, drupal, php
Posted by Beth Fox
October 28, 2010
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Software Store launched in time for Move In weekend!
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...... KEEP READING »
Department of Political Science launches website
Our work with the Department of Political Science has truly been a pleasure. They’ve been extremely organized and were very invested in building out an informative and useful website for their department. We worked primarily with associate professors Cindy Kam, Josh Clinton and Elizabeth Zechmeister. One thing I appreciated most about working with PSCI: they...... KEEP READING »
Launch, A&S, google calendar, mysql, omni, php, political science
Posted by Lacy Tite
August 20, 2010
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Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions website launches
We worked with CSDI co-director and assistant professor Josh Clinton on migrating the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions website. Previously – this was a site maintained manually with no centralized content management system. Within a two weeks period, we moved the content into Omni, redesigned it with a new color scheme, banner, slider...... KEEP READING »
Launch, A&S, google calendar, mysql, omni, php, political science
Posted by Lacy Tite
August 20, 2010
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myVU gets brand bar, php templates and more!
This was another fairly quick template swap. The old myVU templates were xsl, we moved them over to php, updated some stylesheets, added the VU brandbar, added a new video player that displays videos from the VUCast playlist and launched. We’ll be cleaning up the site over the coming weeks – but our goal was...... KEEP READING »

Using your vunetid for the first time with Omni » 3.20.12
How do you say…new website? A new look for the English Language Center » 2.28.12
Contact Forms Now Available on my.vanderbilt.edu » 2.24.12
Signed, sealed, delivered: Vanderbilt Mail Services makes the move to Omni » 2.23.12
Omni Links and Dependency Manager » 2.7.12
Vanderbilt Facebook Tabs — Add one today! » 1.30.12
How can I import content from another WordPress website? » 12.15.11
OmniUpdate Screencast Tutorials » 11.21.11
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