Recent Projects: College Website

What has the Web Management Team been working on? We do 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 past year.

Major projects completed in 2020
  • Secured our servers and upgraded drive space
  • Redesigned Page Not Found
  • Redesigned the Newsroom
    • Instagram rendering
    • New look for news detail pages
    • Modified landing page
  • Improved the Youtube services/video integrations
  • Redesigned Center for Business Innovation
  • Developed a dynamic list of aliases
  • Created Web Content Standards webpages
  • Remediated WCAG 2.1 web accessibility issues
  • Sent a monthly newsletter to web content contributors/owners

Redesigned/new web sections in 2020

Get Started redesign
Using data received from Planning, Research and Evaluation (PRE), the Marketing Department audited and then designed a new user experience for prospective students to help them explore CCBC admission steps based on their educational goals.

We developed new pages for each goal and completely redesigned the Get Started landing page. In addition, existing pages received a content overhaul including: Apply to CCBC, International Student section, Admissions Office and Our Stories (within Discover CCBC). For the first time ever, we developed enrollment pages to further provide students with steps to complete after they apply. There is a page for credit enrollment as well as continuing education. During this redesign, we also fully integrated continuing education, so now Get Started is truly for everyone!



COVID-19 section
In 2020, we developed a new section of the website dedicated to communicating CCBC responses to COVID-19. We created 19 new pages between March and June. This was (and still is) a fluid situation as we not only had to create the new content as quickly as possible, but we had to keep it up-to-date. We collaborated with the campus director’s to quickly identify and remove canceled events. This prompted us to create an Event Cancellation Form that allowed users to update the Web Team on any future canceled or rescheduled events.

This project also involved identifying additional content throughout the CCBC website that became out-of-date due to COVID-19 restrictions and protocols. After we identified pages that needed updates, we worked with the contributors and owners to post service interruption announcements on those pages. We continually reach out to ensure the messaging is still relevant. We are tracking the changes of the 175 impacted pages so that as services return to normal, we can go circle back and undo these COVID related updates.



Academic restructuring

screenshot of the academic schools landing pageCCBC’s academic schools were restructured in 2020. We built, moved, renamed and removed pages. To prepare for this project, we focused on one school a week. In a mass email to contributors and owners, we presented a timeline and content was needed to complete this project.

We audited all school pages to ensure consistency throughout this section. All school landing pages now include contact information, marketing messages with links to department pages, a connection block to market College Promise scholarships, and if applicable an orange border block to market online programs. Similarly, all discipline pages now include contact information, a carousel image (or important announcement), marketing messages with links to program pages, link to the department's Common Course Outline (CCO) page(s), and a link to the associated Academic Pathway.

All of this change unfortunately caused us to have roughly 101 dead links in external sites and search results.

Major projects planned for 2021