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Honor Scholarships moves to WordPress
Sep. 14, 2011—Previously managed in Dreamweaver, the Office of Honor Scholarships (OHS) website is now maintained in WordPress. OHS was happy with their color scheme and banner image, so we carried those elements over to their new site. New functionality for the site includes being able to easily search all of the scholarship opportunities available; scholarship group...
New Services: Monthly Training and Help Desk
Jun. 7, 2011—Monthly Training Sessions University Web Communications now holds monthly training sessions on two university-supported content management systems, OmniUpdate and WordPress. New users will be trained at this time as well as users who need a refresher. Persons interested in learning more about OmniUpdate or WordPress may also attend. Registration is requested so that we can...
MyVU and Vanderbilt View now powered by WordPress
May. 5, 2011—Earlier last month myVU, the news source for Vanderbilt faculty and staff, and Vanderbilt View, the monthly magazine, merged with the Vanderbilt News web presence. This allows us to greatly simplify how we communicate news at Vanderbilt. Prior to the merge, many news stories would be posted twice, verbatim. Once on the Vanderbilt news website...
Free range content
Apr. 15, 2011—More stories. More platforms. Shrinking media market. Same amount of staff. What’s a content producer to do? Set your content free. Allow it to graze and mingle where it, and its readers, listeners and viewers are. Let it reproduce on any and every site that wants it. House it in a flexible and adaptable barn...
Neuroscience Program + WordPress = New easily maintained website
Mar. 7, 2011—Built almost entirely by the client, this website is the new online home for the Neuroscience program (an interdisciplinary concentration offered to VU undergrads drawing upon a variety of scientific disciplines ranging from molecular biology and biophysics, to computational science and engineering, to the study of behavior and cognition.) Alex Carpenter and Jen Overstreet contacted us...
Vanderbilt Healthcare Improvement Group goes live with WordPress site
Feb. 28, 2011—The Vanderbilt Healthcare Improvement Group (VHIG) is an interprofessional community of Vanderbilt management, medicine, and nursing students committed to advancing education and student participation in quality improvement in healthcare. The group’s new WordPress website serves as the central location for all information relating to activities of VHIG and includes a blog as well as a...
House Organ magazine launches WordPress site
Feb. 28, 2011—House Organ is the magazine for the staff, faculty, volunteers, and students of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. It is published monthly by the Office of News and Public Affairs of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Previously a manually built website, the site is now housed in WordPress. Issue archives are automatically generated, the jquery slideshow is built...
Vanderbilt Law Review goes live
Feb. 14, 2011—We assisted the Vanderbilt Law Review in updating their existing WordPress site. Prior to their redesign, they were running WordPress with approximately 18 active plugins. We were able to reduce this to only one – while also cleaning up the code and making the site run more efficiently. The Vanderbilt Law Review site is using...
Research News @ Vanderbilt showcases discovery
Feb. 2, 2011—This week brought the long-awaited launch of Vanderbilt’s new online news channel, Research News @ Vanderbilt. The site spans the institution to showcase research from all fields and disciplines with the goal of educating and interesting a broad audience in science and discovery. Development Notes The same backend that powers the Vanderbilt News site powers...
social.vanderbilt.edu – VU social media, all in one place
Feb. 1, 2011—Having trouble keeping up with all that’s going on at Vanderbilt? Heard of Twitter and Flickr but not sure what they are? Knee deep in social media but looking for a way to pull it all together? A new website, get.social@vanderbilt, helps meet all of these needs by aggregating Vanderbilt’s main social media accounts on Facebook,...
Vanderbilt welcomes Coach Franklin
Jan. 6, 2011—The university announced James Franklin would be its next head football coach Dec. 17, 2010, ending weeks of rabid speculation by mainstream and social media about the coach’s identity. Leading up to the announcement, Web Communications worked closely with our colleagues across Public Affairs – Creative Services, Athletics, Video – to be sure we had...
Registrar redesigns, moves to WordPress
Jan. 4, 2011—Web Communications built a new website for the University Registrar in WordPress, which launched December 28, 2010. It was the first redesign and redevelopment for the site since 1997! Staff had been manually maintaining their website using Dreamweaver. We migrated all of the current pages over to WordPress, cleaned up the navigation and added search functionality...