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

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...... KEEP READING »

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Posted by Beth Fox
March 5, 2012
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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 »

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Posted by Lacy Tite
January 27, 2012
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Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering launches WordPress site

The Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering  (ViSE) is an interdisciplinary, trans-institutional center whose mission is the creation, development, implementation, clinical evaluation and commercialization of methods, devices, algorithms, and systems designed to facilitate interventional processes and their outcome. Or in simpler terms, Vanderbilt engineers and doctors are working together on some REALLY cool projects. This...... KEEP READING »

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Posted by Lacy Tite
November 18, 2011
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U.S.-Japan center moves into my.vanderbilt.edu

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...... KEEP READING »

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Posted by Beth Fox
November 3, 2011
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New site for French and Italian: C’est magnifique!

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...... KEEP READING »

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Posted by Beth Fox
November 3, 2011
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HighEdWeb Conference Presentation on Vanderbilt news and WordPress

Earlier this week, I gave a presentation at the 2011 HighEdWeb Association Conference in Austin, Texas. I presented on how universities might use WordPress as a centralized news presence (highlighting the benefits of centralization), with multiple front doors for various audiences, and used Vanderbilt’s news website (and the merge of many of our content sources)...... KEEP READING »

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Posted by Lacy Tite
October 27, 2011
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Undergrad Psychology + WP = Psyched

Working on a new website was a fun summer project for the Undergraduate Psychology program. Now a WordPress site, they can easily maintain their website. Recent news is populated from the Vanderbilt News website stories that have been tagged with psychology. Thanks to Leslie Kirby, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Psychology, for being awesome (oh...... KEEP READING »

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Posted by Lacy Tite
September 14, 2011
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Honor Scholarships moves to WordPress

Previously managed in Dreamweaver, the Office of Honor Scholarships (OHS) website is now maintained in WordPress. OHS was happy with their color scheme and banner image, so we carried those elements over to their new site. New functionality for the site includes being able to easily search all of the scholarship opportunities available; scholarship group...... KEEP READING »

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Posted by Lacy Tite
September 14, 2011
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How do I get the full toolbar to show up in wordpress?

Does the toolbar look like this when you are editing posts and pages? If so – that is the LIMITED toolbar. You will want to go in and update your user profile so that you can use the FULL toolbar. To do that — click on USERS and then YOUR PROFILE in the left column....... KEEP READING »

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Posted by Lacy Tite
September 6, 2011
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How to add pdf, docs, xls files and link to them in wordpress?

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Posted by Lacy Tite
July 6, 2011
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How do I put a youtube / vimeo / flickr / etc video on a wordpress page?

It’s almost too easy. Paste the URL of the youtube or vimeo video onto a new line in the page. When you publish the page — it will put the video player on the page where the URL was. (You will only be able to see the video on the page itself — not within...... KEEP READING »

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Posted by Lacy Tite
July 6, 2011
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New Services: Monthly Training and Help Desk

Monthly Training Sessions University Web Communications now holds monthly training sessions on two university-supported content management systems, OmniUpdate and WordPress. New users will be trained at this time as well as users who need a refresher. Persons interested in learning more about OmniUpdate or WordPress may also attend. Registration is requested so that we can...... KEEP READING »

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Posted by Lacy Tite
June 7, 2011
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