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Building HTML Emails
Dec. 18, 2009—Presentation from Lacy Tite – December 2009 digitalVU meeting HTML Emails on Prezi All links mentioned available on delicious »
A to Z launched with tagging, open submission
Dec. 15, 2009—We changed the Site Index from a very, very, very long list of alphabetical links to more use-friendly way to find all the Vanderbilt sites. They’re still there in alphabetical order (hence, A-Z), but broken down by letter for quicker browsing. More significantly, they’re now also broken down by category. We can now tag a...
Commencement launched
Dec. 11, 2009—Vanderbilt University is already gearing up for spring with the launch of its new Web site on all things Commencement. The site features a new look and more information than ever before about the university’s three days of Commencement activities that start with THE PARTY on Wednesday, May 12, 2010, and continue with Senior Day...
Programs for Talented Youth website
Dec. 5, 2009—We worked with Jay Watson in Programs for Talented Youth on this redesign. Jay and the PTY team had a previous design and color scheme that we spring-boarded off from. The site backend is WordPress, with a customized theme. After go-live in December, the PTY team was able to take over management and creation of...
Updated homepage features admissions, video and more
Dec. 2, 2009—The Vanderbilt homepage was updated this week with new features to help visitors more easily find content they seek and to showcase the university’s increasing use of video and social media. “Online communications continue to be of paramount importance to the university and to students, faculty and staff, and in many ways those communications start...
@Vandy – Student Organization Calendar Hub
Nov. 10, 2009—We developed this calendar hub for the Vanderbilt Student Government using a Google spreadsheet as the backend. We’ve got an xsl stylesheet in place to transform the google spreadsheet data into a usable format. The students can enter all required information into the spreadsheet – and the @Vandy page parses the spreadsheet data out and...
Developing applications for Google Android and iPhone
Oct. 21, 2009—Learn the basics of developing applications for Google Android and iPhone in this seminar with School of Engineering faculty Jules White and Doug Schmidt and their students, who are in the midst of developing applications for Vanderbilt and for the public at large. This event is part of DigitalVU month at Vanderbilt.
Email – myVUpreview
Sep. 4, 2009—myVUpreview is an email newsletter that goes out to all Vanderbilt faculty and staff each Monday and Thursday. The email is managed by the Vanderbilt News Service. They wanted to move from a text-only email to an html email – and they needed to be able to quickly and easily build these emails without writing...
Social Media – why it matters and how to use it in your job
Oct. 16, 2008—Listen Now: Presentation from Lacy Tite on Oct. 16: Social Media: why it matters, how it can enrich your life, and ways it might even help you do your job better. We discussed facebook, del.icio.us, twitter, flickr, google apps, netvibes, etc. – what they are and why they’re worth your time. Facebook is more...