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Vanderbilt Nurse revitalized with WordPress!
Nov. 11, 2010—Vanderbilt Nurse magazine has launched a new WordPress site, focusing on news around the school. It also includes feeds from their Facebook, Twitter and Flickr accounts – information specific to the School of Nursing. We went with WordPress for them because it offers robust tagging – an important feature in such a news-heavy site. The...
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...
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...
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
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...
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!
OAK website collaboration
Jun. 24, 2010—OAK – Online Access to Knowledge – is using our templates and lookin’ good doing it. We helped Cindy Franco (from the Library) with information architecture and usability, and also helped integrate the Vanderbilt design elements with the Blackboard system.