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Financial Aid website launches
Nov. 2, 2010—We recently worked with the Office of Student Financial Aid and Undergraduate Scholarships on redeveloping their website and bringing it into the look and feel of the main Vanderbilt Web presence. The slideshow on the homepage features beautiful photos from our Vanderbilt photographers and highlights key facts and figures about our financial aid program —...
New Web presence for Vandy in Hollywood program
Nov. 1, 2010—What a fun project! We had the privilege of working two Vanderbilt alumni, Chad Gervich and Rich Hull (founders of ViH), on a brand new Web presence for the Vandy in Hollywood organization. “Vandy-In-Hollywood is a professional, alumni-supported organization which provides the valuable guidance and resources that enable Vanderbilt students and alumni to navigate the...
Want to be an email ninja? Master your inbox.
Oct. 29, 2010—View presentation outline and notes.
SustainVU completely overhauls their web presence
Oct. 27, 2010—The Vanderbilt Sustainability and Environmental Management Office (SEMO) unveiled a new look for the SustainVU website on Friday, October 22. “Interest in and the variety of Vanderbilt’s sustainability initiatives has increased exponentially since the creation of the original SustainVU website in 2007,” said Andrea George, SEMO director. “To better accommodate the breadth of these efforts and...
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...
VU Police Department uses WP theme
Oct. 22, 2010—Marty Wright is responsible for the Vanderbilt Police Department website. When it came time to reorganize their website – he decided to download the VU WordPress theme and give it a whirl. He wanted the VUPD site to have the Vanderbilt look – and using the WP theme is a surefire way to achieve that!...
HighEdWeb Conference Notes
Oct. 13, 2010—I’m attending the HighEdWeb Conference in Cincinatti this week … and blogging my session notes on the .eduguru website. Lots of really great sessions … its hard to only pick one in each time slot. View my session notes HTML5 Design Providing more and using less with caching How I learned to worry less and...
digitalVU month is here!
Oct. 1, 2010—With 28 events and counting, there is something for everyone during Vanderbilt’s signature technology month, be you coder, content guru or simply interested user. These events showcase the incredible talent and expertise that exists at Vanderbilt and offer a great opportunity to meet and share ideas with like-minded people from across the institution. The full...
Student Employment website moves into Omni
Sep. 30, 2010—The Office of Student Employment website recently migrated into Omni – it was a pretty straight forward content migration. The navigation remained the same and all pages were moved over pretty much as is — just in the new design.
Parents and Family Programs redesigns their website
Sep. 30, 2010—Before: Dreamweaver, manually maintained pages After: WordPress. Online editing of pages, no software required; menus automatically updated when new pages added; A previously hard to maintain map that listed all of the Parents and Family Board members is now powered by a google spreadsheet. We added a news and announcements blog, fun polls for the...
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...