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International Resources page launched
Aug. 30, 2010—The International Resources page is a portal of sorts to all things international at Vanderbilt. It as built in Omni, and provides links to international offices at Vanderbilt immigration services and resources information for new faculty, students and staff resources for global travelers upcoming international events
Presentation: Technology in the Classroom
Aug. 27, 2010—Derek Bruff, senior lecturer and assistant director of the Center for Teaching, gave a presentation in the August 27 digitalVU meeting on technology in the classroom—useful not only for those who interact with students, but also for those wanting to learn more about interactive and digital friendly presentations. I think everyone got a little something...
Turner Center for Church Leadership
Aug. 26, 2010—Beautiful stained glass graces the banner on the Turner Center for Church Leadership website. We worked with Michelle Bukowski to build the Omni site – launching in time for the center to advertise its full-tuition scholarship program.
Software Store launched in time for Move In weekend!
Aug. 23, 2010—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...
Department of Political Science launches website
Aug. 20, 2010—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...
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions website launches
Aug. 20, 2010—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...
Research on Individuals, Politics & Society website launch
Aug. 20, 2010—We worked with faculty members Cindy Kam and Elizabeth Zechmeister on migrating the Research on Individuals, Politics & Society 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 images,...
LAPOP goes live
Aug. 20, 2010—We worked with the Latin American Public Opinion Project on migrating their site into Omni. This is a half-Omni, half-Sitemason site. Most of the pages are in Omni — but the datasets and logins remain in Sitemason (with the new look applied). This is the fourth site we’ve worked on with the Department of Political...
VU-EDGE program gets new look
Aug. 18, 2010—We worked with Don Brunson, assistant dean of the Graduate School, to update the look of the Vanderbilt University Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (VU-EDGE) site. We moved the site into Omni and created a custom banner for them. Their old site was all one page, made to look like 13 different pages through div...
Center for Teaching launches new website
Aug. 8, 2010—Loved working on this site! CFT wanted to combine three separate sites they were maintaining into one with the new CFT website — their existing website, the CFT Podcast and the CFT blog. They had been maintaining the existing site entirely in Dreamweaver and were very happy to start using a content management system. We migrated...
Undergraduate Admissions moves into Omni
Aug. 8, 2010—We had a quick turnaround request from Undergraduate Admissions – their webmaster was going on leave and they needed to be in a system that would allow several users to update the site in his absence. With the workflow they needed – several editors, one publisher – we knew Omni was the perfect solution for...
Vanderbilt Center for Nashville Studies gets a website
Aug. 7, 2010—The Vanderbilt Center for Nashville Studies needed a quick turnaround for its website – and our Omni CMS delivered! After 30 minutes of Omni training, Whitney Weeks, the VCNS director, was making updates like a pro.
myVU gets brand bar, php templates and more!
Jul. 22, 2010—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...
Jewish Law Association of Middle Tennessee
Jul. 10, 2010—We created a site for the Jewish Law Association of Middle Tennessee using Omni. We’re very happy with how this turned out, and Phil Ackerman-Lieberman was a dream to work with!
Submit KeyMatches for the google search appliance
Jun. 30, 2010—A KeyMatch associates a specific term with a particular result, enabling you to direct users to a result that is especially relevant but that might not appear at the top of the results page. For example, if someone were to search for “event”, we can make sure that the top result for that search will...