‘wordpress’
New Vanderbilt News site launched; new video player available campus-wide
Jun. 21, 2010—Keeping up with the latest news from Vanderbilt is now easier than ever. The redesigned Vanderbilt News website launched June 14, featuring a dramatic new look, a robust new back end and features that are available for all Vanderbilt departments. New features and technology available Video is a focal point of the new site, showcasing...
Chancellor website migrated
Jun. 17, 2010—The Chancellor’s site was pretty quickly migrated into the new Vanderbilt look, as it runs on WordPress. We simply swapped out the theme – did a quick check to be sure everything was working correctly, and it was live and updated. You gotta love content management systems and swapping out themes :)
Crisis Communication – the 2010 Nashville Flood website
Jun. 5, 2010—The flood website has been a continually changing resource for the Vanderbilt community. In it’s earliest form, it was a very plain single HTML page that we built on Sunday, May 2. (18,600 unique pageviews that day). There were only a few of us who had dependable internet and phones that day; for those of...
Vanderbilt WordPress Theme Released
Jun. 4, 2010—The Vanderbilt WordPress Theme has a control panel that will allow you set many options. I’d suggest installing it – putting in a few pages and posts so you can have some content pre-populated – and then turn on and off options in the control pane that is accessible via the VANDERBILT BRAND menu at...
Provost website migrated
May. 17, 2010—The Provost site was previously maintained manually. We moved all the content into WordPress, applied the Vanderbilt WordPress theme, and went live.
Progress of the migration of news site data
Apr. 30, 2010—We’ve been chugging along on the Vanderbilt News site migration over the past several weeks. Once we finally made the decision that we would definitely be going with WordPress as the backend, we could finally start working out the process for migrating approximately 4,000 pages from the old CMS. It was a 4 step process...
Reunion website launched
Mar. 21, 2010—We assisted DAR Communications in the redesign and development of the Reunion website. The site is a combo of wordpress pages and custom php/mysql scripts. Most of the site content and class pages are in wordpress. The VandyGrams (e-postcards alums can send to each other with classic images from their time at Vanderbilt) and the...
Center for Latin American Studies website launched
Mar. 16, 2010—The Center for Latin American Studies wanted to make their site easier to update. They also wanted to have consistency in fonts and page layout. Another item on their wishlist was for a new navigation that would get visitors to their content as quickly and easily as possible. We solved all these problems by migrating...
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...