digitalVU email list

Update your address books! The web-spiders list has been retired. Next time you have a question - email digitalvu@list.vanderbilt.edu.

Know someone who needs to get on the digitalVU email list? instructions on how to subscribe are on the ning site.

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Don't fear the fold – people do scroll

Article comes to the conclusion that the fold is not a significant barrier - based on data from over over 800 user testing sessions. GO »

A Complete Beginners Guide to Regular Expressions

Regular expressions can be scary... this article introduces ways to learn how to effectively use regular expressions.

jQuery, Mootools, CSS, HTML5 Cheat Sheet Collection

Most are designed to be printer friendly, so you can have them laying around on your desk as quick reference cards. GO »

Web Design Trends for 2010

As you think of how you will incorporate new trends into your designs, focus on the main idea of each trend and how you might use these in your development and design projects in the coming year.

• 20 nifty jQuery plugins to use in your next design
• 20+ HTML Forms Best Practices for Beginners
• Let's make the web faster
• An early look at IE7 for developers
• Enhance performance with Zend_Cache (by VU's own Chris Renner)
• 7 Reasons Why Higher Ed is the Best Gig in All the Web
• Elements of a Social Media Calendar
• CSS Transitions 101
• 9 Most Common IE Bugs and How to Fix Them
• Design and Build Email Newsletters Without Losing Your Mind (and Soul)

VUMC Social Media Policy

A training and informational session for staff and faculty interested in the new social media policy for VUMC will be held Jan. 29 at 12:30 p.m. in 208 Light Hall. Register now »

The social media policy, the Medical Center's first, covers institutional use of tools such as blogs, Twitter, Facebook and You Tube, and outlines an approval process for departments considering using such tools.

next digitalVU meeting:

Friday, January 29      
10 - 11 a.m.
Sarratt 363

Meeting topics: VUMC social media policy, mobile application demo

December: HTML Emails
Presentation | Links

November: Rich Internet Applications video

Vshare

Vshare is a web-enabled temporary file distribution site. The service is designed to be used as temporary storage for files too large for email attachments.

cool tools

Need for Speed – Test the upload and download connection speeds of your computer (Thanks ITS!)

9 tools for simple productivity – does what you need them to do, and nothing more.

CSV to mySQL converter– quickly turn a CSV into mysql insert statement

BrowserSize – See how users with different screen resolutions see your site.

got ning?

The Vanderbilt web community is on NING. Join the discussion: network with other developers, create interest groups, post videos, links, ask/answer questions on the forum, etc. GO »

nashville events

January 28 - Nashville Geek Breakfast

Nashville Drupalers are organizing a drupal camp for March - vote on a date). Got design skills? Submit your logo idea!