Recent Projects: College Website
What has the Web Management Team been up to lately? We do so much more than just review pages submitted for approval by our content contributors and owners. There's a lot that goes on behind the scenes! Take a look at some of the projects we completed this year.Major projects completed in 2019
- Sent monthly email newsletters to web content contributors and owners.
- Compiled a master list of all trained Sitecore contributors and owners.
- Developed alert, web form and video accessibility standards.
- Programmed a special tuition module for physician assistant courses.
- Used Siteimprove to improve:
- External SEO
- Mobile friendliness
- Brand compliance
- Web accessibility
- Other quality assurance checks
Redesigned web sections in 2019
CCBC Online
During the Spring and Summer of 2017, College Communications worked with the newly hired Dean of Online Learning to develop a two phase approach for creating a web presence for CCBC Online. Phase I would involve creating a robust section of the existing CCBC website to launch CCBC Online as the programs and services it offers and the infrastructure to support them coalesced. Content and technical development work began in the fall and the General Studies 21-in-21 page was launched in December of 2017.
The CCBC Online web section is comprised of more than twenty-five pages housed in the college’s content management system (CMS). The Marketing Web Management Team administers the CMS, while Steve Kabrhel, Assistant Dean of Online Learning, and Ann Smoot, Administrative Assistant, function within the web publication process as the designated web content owners and contributors for this section.
The CCBC Online web section is comprised of more than twenty-five pages housed in the college’s content management system (CMS). The Marketing Web Management Team administers the CMS, while Steve Kabrhel, Assistant Dean of Online Learning, and Ann Smoot, Administrative Assistant, function within the web publication process as the designated web content owners and contributors for this section.
Facility Rental Spaces
The Facility Rental section now has a new page with photo galleries to showcase the spaces that are available to rent at CCBC.
With these gallery renderings we are able to add multiple photos to a page in a clean and efficient way. Users can click on an image to see a larger photo of the space in a shadowbox. Each image also indicates which campus the space is located on. In total, we added over 100 photos of available spaces.
This was a big project that took the effort of Katie Welsh, who provided content, Nate Brigham, who provided the photos, and Vanessa Pratnicki who configured the content and photo galleries on the website. It's a great new addition! Be sure to check it out!
College Promise Scholarship
The College Promise Scholarship started with Baltimore County. Not long after came the Maryland and then Continuing Education Promise Programs. As requirements constantly change with MHEC, this page saw numerous rounds of revisions!
Now that the page as been live for just over a year, we have testimonials from College Promise students. We feature a YouTube video rendering and an orange border block on the page that highlights the journey taken by two CCBC students.
The Web Team worked with the Financial Aid team and members of College Communications to develop these pages.
Major projects planned for 2020
- Redesign the Get Started web sections to boost recruitment efforts.
- Continue to enforce web accessibility compliance.
- Upgrade the CMS to Sitecore 9.3.
- Expand content and documentation for our Sitecore user community.
- Publish a list of all aliases.
