‘wordpress’
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...
School of Engineering now powered by WordPress and Omni
Oct. 26, 2012—Earlier this fall, the School of Engineering launched their new web presence powered by OmniUpdate and WordPress. As part of the move to OU and WP, we also rolled our a brand new look for their site — with a cleaner, streamlined look, simplified navigation. Their homepage includes easily editable content blocks for featured stories...
Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health launches a new WordPress site
May. 29, 2012—We love a good partnership, and that’s exactly what we have with the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health. We set up a WordPress install for Kristin Centers from VIGH, and she took it from there, designing her own header and migrating all of her own content. We simply provided any needed help and support along the...
Health and Wellness move to Omni/WordPress
May. 25, 2012—Earlier this year, we launched a brand new web presence for the Health and Wellness division, which is comprised of four departments: Health Plus, Occupational Health Clinic, Work/Life Connections and the Child and Family Center. Previously five separate websites — we merged the four internal department sites into the overall Health and Wellness site —...
The Blair String Quartet’s new site is music to our ears
Mar. 5, 2012—We launched the updated Blair String Quartet site on March 1, 2012. The previous string quartet site was maintained in Sitemason and had not been redesigned since 2002. The site needed to have an elegant look, a place for individual bios, downloadable hi-res photos and recordings of their performances – and be easy to maintain...
Admissions, reimagined and simplified
Jan. 27, 2012—Simplify. Simplify. Simplify. That was the overarching theme of many of our discussions with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions when imagining a new Web presence. Let’s step back and make things easier for the user. Focus on the key MESSAGES that UoA wants to get out there about Vanderbilt. What are the key ACTIONS we...
Biostatistics site recruiting next generation of researchers
Jan. 5, 2012—The Graduate Program in Biostatistics is a master’s and Ph.D. program housed in the School of Medicine’s Department of Biostatistics and administered by the Graduate School. The program needed a new website to recruit students, provide information for and showcase the work of current faculty and students, and provide information about the field of biostatistics....
Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering launches WordPress site
Nov. 18, 2011—The Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering (ViSE) is an interdisciplinary, trans-institutional center whose mission is the creation, development, implementation, clinical evaluation and commercialization of methods, devices, algorithms, and systems designed to facilitate interventional processes and their outcome. Or in simpler terms, Vanderbilt engineers and doctors are working together on some REALLY cool projects. This...
U.S.-Japan center moves into my.vanderbilt.edu
Nov. 3, 2011—When the Center for U.S.-Japan Studies and Cooperation approached us about a new site, we knew my.vanderbilt.edu would be a great fit for them: They’re a small site (fewer than 10 pages) and my.vanderbilt is perfect for smaller departments (such as the French Graduate Studies program). We designed a custom header for them and migrated...
New site for French and Italian: C’est magnifique!
Nov. 3, 2011—When the Department of French and Italian contacted us to move their site from Sitemason to WordPress, we of course said oui! Their timeline was a little more pressing than our schedule allowed, so we set up the WordPress install for them and their webmaster, Veronique, took it from there – she even designed the...
HighEdWeb Conference Presentation on Vanderbilt news and WordPress
Oct. 27, 2011—Earlier this week, I gave a presentation at the 2011 HighEdWeb Association Conference in Austin, Texas. I presented on how universities might use WordPress as a centralized news presence (highlighting the benefits of centralization), with multiple front doors for various audiences, and used Vanderbilt’s news website (and the merge of many of our content sources)...
Undergrad Psychology + WP = Psyched
Sep. 14, 2011—Working on a new website was a fun summer project for the Undergraduate Psychology program. Now a WordPress site, they can easily maintain their website. Recent news is populated from the Vanderbilt News website stories that have been tagged with psychology. Thanks to Leslie Kirby, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Psychology, for being awesome (oh...