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Video: Drupal @ Vanderbilt: an overview of current projects
Oct. 28, 2010—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...
Department of Chemistry debuts new site
Oct. 28, 2010—The Department of Chemistry site was redesigned using Omni. The site features videos, a Google calendar, a Prezi graduate student viewbook, a facility tour, and a Current Graduate Student Dashboard with links to commonly accessed resources. A big part of this site’s redesign was rewriting content in a fresher, livelier style. This is something we...
SustainVU completely overhauls their web presence
Oct. 27, 2010—The Vanderbilt Sustainability and Environmental Management Office (SEMO) unveiled a new look for the SustainVU website on Friday, October 22. “Interest in and the variety of Vanderbilt’s sustainability initiatives has increased exponentially since the creation of the original SustainVU website in 2007,” said Andrea George, SEMO director. “To better accommodate the breadth of these efforts and...
Video: Crafting a Professional Digital Identity
Oct. 26, 2010—Presentation for digitalVU month — Social media’s Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, blogs, and so on — give us plenty of opportunities to share our thoughts online. However, these platforms can sometimes make it hard to know just how public our comments are, as a Dartmouth religion professor found out recently when some comments she made on...
Video for HTML Email: Coding Like It’s 1999
Oct. 25, 2010—Presentation for digitalVU month — Tips and tricks for building HTML emails … because it’s definitely not like coding for a website! Suggestions on ways to compensate for the differences between the hundreds of email clients out there, how to track your results, how to use the Vanderbilt listserv to send out your html emails,...
WordPress BLOG theme for Vanderbilt
Oct. 22, 2010—Today we’re releasing a secondary version of the Vanderbilt WordPress Theme – this one is blog-centric. The BLOG THEME has all the same features of the main VU theme – but the homepage, archive pages, navigation and sidebar are geared towards a blog website and not a departmental / information website. It relies heavily on...
VU Police Department uses WP theme
Oct. 22, 2010—Marty Wright is responsible for the Vanderbilt Police Department website. When it came time to reorganize their website – he decided to download the VU WordPress theme and give it a whirl. He wanted the VUPD site to have the Vanderbilt look – and using the WP theme is a surefire way to achieve that!...
digitalVU 2010: Download Presentations
Oct. 21, 2010—October 4, 2010 Mobile App Development at Vanderbilt: VMAT Mobile App Development at Vanderbilt: VMAT Hear the latest from VMAT, Vanderbilt’s student mobile application team. The presentation by VMAT President Zach McCormick will include an overview of the group and the apps it has produced for the university as well as future plans. Have an...
HighEdWeb Conference Notes
Oct. 13, 2010—I’m attending the HighEdWeb Conference in Cincinatti this week … and blogging my session notes on the .eduguru website. Lots of really great sessions … its hard to only pick one in each time slot. View my session notes HTML5 Design Providing more and using less with caching How I learned to worry less and...
digitalVU month is here!
Oct. 1, 2010—With 28 events and counting, there is something for everyone during Vanderbilt’s signature technology month, be you coder, content guru or simply interested user. These events showcase the incredible talent and expertise that exists at Vanderbilt and offer a great opportunity to meet and share ideas with like-minded people from across the institution. The full...
Student Employment website moves into Omni
Sep. 30, 2010—The Office of Student Employment website recently migrated into Omni – it was a pretty straight forward content migration. The navigation remained the same and all pages were moved over pretty much as is — just in the new design.
Parents and Family Programs redesigns their website
Sep. 30, 2010—Before: Dreamweaver, manually maintained pages After: WordPress. Online editing of pages, no software required; menus automatically updated when new pages added; A previously hard to maintain map that listed all of the Parents and Family Board members is now powered by a google spreadsheet. We added a news and announcements blog, fun polls for the...
Find the Green Dots!
Sep. 13, 2010—We worked with Green Dots at Vanderbilt to build a new website that would educate the community about and encourage involvement in the Green Dot movement. A green dot is any behavior, choice, word or attitude that promotes safety for everyone and communicates intolerance for rape, partner violence and stalking. The Green Dots website features...
Using Picnik as a handy (free!) photo editor
Aug. 30, 2010—We have a lot of clients who need to be able to edit images for their websites – picnik to the rescue! For those of you out there who don’t have Photoshop — picnik will allow you to quickly and easily crop, resize, remove red eye, alter exposure, and more … all for free and...