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New web presence for the Graduate Department of Religion
Sep. 25, 2014—The Graduate Department of Religion launched a brand new web presence in mid-September (it was previously just a subsection of the Divinity School website — even though GDR is part of the Divinity School and the College of Arts and Science. Having a separate website hopefully helps them clear up some of the confusion about...
Health Professions Advisory Office moves to Omni, gets a new look
Sep. 20, 2014—The Health Professions Advisory Office is part of the College of Arts & Science, and had been maintained through Dreamweaver. We redesigned the site and moved it into Omni, allowing for easier maintenance of the site.
Vanderbilt Women’s Club moves to Omni, gets an updated look
Aug. 22, 2014— The Vanderbilt Women’s Club consists of women who work at or have partners that work at the University or Medical Center, are alumni, or simply have an avid interest in Vanderbilt. Their former site was maintained in Dreamweaver. We moved them to OmniUpdate, allowing them to maintain the site themselves, and we assisted with a...
Academic Strategic Plan public-facing website
Aug. 10, 2014—We worked with the Chancellor’s office on creating the public-facing web presence for the Academic Strategic Plan. It’s a simple website that presents an executive summary of the plan, an organizational chart, and encourages visitors to download a PDF that includes the full text of the Academic Strategic Plan.
A new home for Warren and Moore
Aug. 6, 2014—Vanderbilt’s newest halls of residence opened to students in the fall of 2014. Warren & Moore Colleges house approximately 330 upper class students, and each college is led by a faculty director and two graduate students in residence. Web Communications worked closely with these faculty directors and students to bring the College Halls site to...
OmniUpdate being upgraded to Version 10
Jul. 25, 2014—Hello Omni users! All of our Vanderbilt OmniUpdate accounts are being updated to Version 10 in the coming weeks. What does this mean for you? The backend tool/interface that you use to update your website will have a different look (editing pages) — but your public-facing website will not change at all. Please note that...
CASPAR moves to Omni
Jul. 23, 2014—CASPAR is the College of Arts and Science’s Pre-major Academic Advising Resources office. We redesigned their site to be more in line with other university sites, and to help clarify navigation.
Trademark Licensing moves into OmniUpdate
Mar. 20, 2014—The Office of Trademark Licensing, which ensures that Vanderbilt’s brand identity is properly represented on goods and services, moved into OmniUpdate and went live with a redesign at the end of February. Thanks to Mary Ann Daniel-Kaszuba for being such a great partner on this project!
Federal Relations launches new site in Omni
Feb. 5, 2014—Vanderbilt’s Office of Federal Relations advocates on behalf of federal legislation, regulations and policy that could affect Vanderbilt University. They recently launched a shiny new website, now managed in OmniUpdate. We have consulted with them over the past year on their new social media presences as well — they’ve launched both Twitter and Facebook presences...
OmniUpdate Dependency Manager now enabled for binary files
May. 9, 2013—Now that we’ve enabled the Dependency Manager for binary files, images and documents will be uploaded to the staging server instead of going straight to production. The restore feature will now work for images and documents and additionally, it will keep track of file names, their locations, and revisions. Binary files: Non-text based files such...
Spring cleaning for Nashville
Mar. 19, 2013—Ok, not the city of Nashville – it’s great the way it is. But our website that brags about how great Nashville is was in need of some sprucing up. Fun fact: Vanderbilt’s Nashville site was the very first site we moved into our content management system, OmniUpdate, in June of 2010. We’ve come a...
Blair School of Music moves from Drupal to Omni and WordPress
Nov. 26, 2012—In September, the Blair School of Music migrated their website from Drupal into OmniUpdate and WordPress. Alongside the migration to a new content management system, we also redesigned the site — streamlining navigation and adding in some standard Vanderbilt theme elements to the design (a modified brand bar and footer section — which tie in...