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Vanderbilt Website Theme Updates
Jul. 24, 2017—We are rolling out an update to all Vanderbilt websites over the coming weeks/months, which includes a long-overdue refresh of the Vanderbilt Theme that is used on OmniUpdate and WordPress sites. The refresh includes many style changes to bring sites more closely aligned with the main Vanderbilt website. Vanderbilt Brand Bar The Vanderbilt Brand Bar...
WebComm wins 3 TCPRA awards
Jun. 10, 2017—
vanderbi.lt link shortener
Aug. 9, 2011—Have you seen the new vanderbi.lt shortened links appearing around the interwebs (especially on @VanderbiltU‘s Twitter account?) We recently launched a link shortening service for Vanderbilt: vanderbi.lt. Rather than using a generic shortener like bit.ly or ow.ly – we decided we’d like to have a branded solution that clearly shows that the content is from...
Video: Create a simple image gallery
Aug. 9, 2011—
Video: Write and Publish Posts
Aug. 9, 2011—
How do I get started?
Aug. 9, 2011—Create your account by logging in with your VUnetID and ePassword by clicking on the Create Your Site link on the right. You will receive an email that will contain a link that ACTIVATES your my.vanderbilt.edu account. After activating your account, login here to actually create your my.vanderbilt.edu website (you will also see any existing...
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...
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...
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...
Get to know the GRID … 24 columns that the VU site is built on
May. 28, 2010—The Vanderbilt website backbone is a 24-column grid that is based on Blueprint. Our grid system is a condensed version of the blueprint system (for instance -we did NOT include the push and pull selectors.) The grid is 950px wide, with 24 columns spanning 30px, and a 10px margin between columns. Using a grid system...
Simple Template Files Released
May. 19, 2010—These template files are STATIC html pages. The easiest way to get them is to right click on the pages and view source, and save that as an html file on your machine. You can customize it however you want. Simple second level page template Full featured second level page template (with image slider, flickr...