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Vanderbilt on Twitter
Jan. 29, 2010—Interested in Twitter, but not sure where to start? Using Twitter, but feeling overwhelmed by the millions of tweets flowing across the site each day? Have no idea what Twitter is, and wondering what the fuss is all about? A new Web site, http://twitter.vanderbilt.edu, aims to help members of the Vanderbilt community meet each of...
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...
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...