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Master of Liberal Arts & Science moves to Omni
Dec. 12, 2014—The Master of Liberal Arts & Science (MLAS) is a graduate program for Nashville’s adult learners. We moved their site out of Dreamweaver and into OmniUpdate, making it easier for them to update their content. Moving this site, and all the sites we work with, into a content management system such as Omni also brings...
VU Police Department uses WP theme
Oct. 22, 2010—Marty Wright is responsible for the Vanderbilt Police Department website. When it came time to reorganize their website – he decided to download the VU WordPress theme and give it a whirl. He wanted the VUPD site to have the Vanderbilt look – and using the WP theme is a surefire way to achieve that!...
Center for Teaching launches new website
Aug. 8, 2010—Loved working on this site! CFT wanted to combine three separate sites they were maintaining into one with the new CFT website — their existing website, the CFT Podcast and the CFT blog. They had been maintaining the existing site entirely in Dreamweaver and were very happy to start using a content management system. We migrated...
OAK website collaboration
Jun. 24, 2010—OAK – Online Access to Knowledge – is using our templates and lookin’ good doing it. We helped Cindy Franco (from the Library) with information architecture and usability, and also helped integrate the Vanderbilt design elements with the Blackboard system.
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 :)
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...
University Calendar redesigned
May. 18, 2010—The University Calendar is all up-to-date (get it?) with a look that matches the just-launched homepage. We changed the homepage to show all of today’s events (previously, it just showed highlighted events, with an option to view all – confusing). We didn’t change the functionality or the back end of the Calendar – the data...
Vanderbilt Brand Bar
May. 18, 2010—The Vanderbilt Brand Bar gives departments a quick and easy way to incorporate the Vanderbilt look into their site. With just one simple line of code, you can update your site to include the Vanderbilt wordmark – used correctly (no need to worry if you’re meeting the Graphics Standards Guidelines) – and the required link...
Disciplines and Majors database and site launched
May. 17, 2010—A frequent request of prospective students and many across the campus was to have a centralized source of all disciplines and majors available for students at Vanderbilt. Rather than start from scratch, we approached the Vanderbilt Institutional Research Group (VIRG) to see if we could collaborate with them on creating such a tool. VIRG already...
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...
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...