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New site for French and Italian: C’est magnifique!
Nov. 3, 2011—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...
Watch: Web usability design
Nov. 1, 2011—Watch video of Carlos Hooper from VUMC Strategic Marketing speaking Oct. 31 at a DigitalVU month event. Hooper, who holds an MFA in interactive design and teaches at the Art Institute, discusses best practices of UI design. The event was part of DigitalVU month at Vanderbilt, co-coordinated by Medical Center Web and Creative Servicesand University Web Communications with support...
Watch: Blogging best practices
Oct. 31, 2011—Watch video of popular blogger and social media expert Jessica Turner sharing some of the industry’s best blogging practices to create a space that is read, utilized and shared on a regular basis. Turner has much experience working with individuals and companies to create blogs that reflect their personalities, achieve their goals and generate traffic. The event was...
Watch: Using technology to engage students beyond the classroom walls
Oct. 21, 2011—Watch video of an Oct. 20 presentation “Using technology to engage students beyond the classroom walls” with Corbette Doyle and Stephanie Milne. This session provides a hands-on look at Twitter as a tool to encourage students to think critically about course content — before, during and after class ends. To increase faculty comfort with the...
The Ingram Commons … powered by Omni
Oct. 20, 2011—The website for The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons has been redesigned and is now powered by Omni. Front and center of the new site is a YouTube playlist featuring Commons-related videos produced by the fabulous video team at News & Communications. Also new to the site are pages for each of the 10 Houses, with...
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities
Aug. 26, 2011—The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities has a launched a new site – their first design update since 1998! They wanted a fresh look, and wanted to reflect the official Vanderbilt Web presence. They also wanted to showcase their history and their programs, which we did in the header and the photo slideshow....
A new era at Vanderbilt: The College Halls
Aug. 22, 2011—Vanderbilt University is set to begin construction of the next phase of its residential college system – College Halls at Vanderbilt, and as part of that, a new website was needed. Using the architectural renderings of the new buildings as inspiration, we created a site that contains information about the new buildings, plans for the...
Oh say can you see? It’s the new American Studies site!
Jun. 28, 2011—The website for the redesigned American Studies site went live June 21. The site also includes information about the American Studies Sustainability Project, a campus-wide program for the 2011-12 year featuring curriculum, speakers, exhibits etc. They wanted a look that felt like Americana with a touch of Hatch Show Print (Hatch does all their Road...
University Staff Advisory Council motions for new site
Mar. 15, 2011—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...
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Series debuts a redesigned website
Dec. 20, 2010—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.
Check out the brand-new Keegan Traveling Fellowship site
Dec. 3, 2010—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...
Division of Sponsored Research revamped
Nov. 11, 2010—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.