Recent Projects: College Website
Take a look at some of the projects we completed this past year.Major projects completed in 2021
- Website Redevelopment
- Phase 1 completed - Conduct user experience research
- Phase 3 preparation - Developed content inventory spreadsheets
- Updated our Web Content Standards and Sitecore resources
- How to plan a content strategy
- How to create a content calendar
- CSS changes for web accessibility
- Adjusted text color, improved header colors and improved color contrast.
- Created a dynamic list of all degree and certificate programs
- Continue to update/post COVID-19 announcements
- Developed a new sitemap that reports all live pages in Web/CDs
- Redesigned Center for Business Innovation with embedded slideshows, videos, forms, and social media feeds
- Redesigned event details page to ensure responsive design and add similarly tagged events
Redesigned/new web sections in 2021
Help Paying for College
The Help Paying for College website is now restructured and reorganized so that it is easier for users to navigate the financial aid pages, both on desktop and mobile devices. A secondary navigation was set up within the right rail so mobile users can easily access child pages.
This site features 3 new sections:
This site features 3 new sections:
- Get Started - Previously the How to Apply page, this page was completely redesigned to break down the process of applying for financial aid into 4 easy steps!
- Types of Financial Aid - This new page summarizes the types of aid available, and serves as the landing page for Scholarships and Grants, Loans and Student Employment child pages.
- Keeping your Financial Aid - The Satisfactory Academic Progress page, within this section was redesigned and 3 new pages were added.
Transfer Agreements
The Online Transfer Center got a fresh, new look to streamline the information students need in order to plan for a successful transfer in a step-by-step fashion. This enhancement makes the landing page more user and mobile friendly. In addition, a new page has been added to help students better understand their financial aid options when they transfer.
The biggest change; however, is our newest section ‘Transfer Agreements by Institution.’ Now students have the option of seeing all available transfer agreements at a glance. From the table, they can select an institution based on their area of study and see everything they need to know about transferring to that school. Each institution page includes contact information, link to the transfer agreement PDF, school's landing page, deadlines, and other transfer information. In total, 8 existing Online Transfer Center pages have been redesigned and we added 19 new pages for users to browse by institution.
The biggest change; however, is our newest section ‘Transfer Agreements by Institution.’ Now students have the option of seeing all available transfer agreements at a glance. From the table, they can select an institution based on their area of study and see everything they need to know about transferring to that school. Each institution page includes contact information, link to the transfer agreement PDF, school's landing page, deadlines, and other transfer information. In total, 8 existing Online Transfer Center pages have been redesigned and we added 19 new pages for users to browse by institution.
Browsable Programs List
Our newly redesigned Degrees and Certificates page displays all CCBC programs that lead to a credential in one interactive list. This custom-made template uses our program data from Acalog to create a dynamic list of degree, certificate and workforce certification programs. Users can easily navigate and filter available programs by degree, credit certificate or continuing education workforce certificate.
Major projects planned for 2022
- Phase 2-4 of the Website Redevelopment Project
- Develop a strategy, choose a CMS, design information architecture.
- Purchase a new CMS.
- Form a website advisory committee for front-end design guidance and back-end CMS section.
- Continue to audit pages, aliases, and PDF content in Sitecore.
- Research, document requirements, and evaluate features, page layouts, and assets for migration for the new CMS.
- Update website transformation and accessibility content in SmartReach and our knowledge-base.
- Continue to maintain Sitecore through November 2023.
