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How to build a website truly targeted for prospective students

When designing higher education websites, prospective students are often a key audience, but we’re also balancing the needs of many other audiences. Creating a dedicated admissions website means we can truly focus on the user journey of future students as they research and apply. Over the past three years, OCAD University, Canada’s largest art and […]

Why are content management systems so “C.M. Messy?”

What if the real issue isn’t your content management system but how you’re using it? I’ve spent 19+ years of my career thinking about this question, as a technical trainer for CMS authors, and as a developer of CMS authoring interfaces. Attend this session to identify sources of “mess,” and along with some strategies you […]

Creating tomorrow’s developers by training them as student content editors today

Problem statement The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, like most others, has a limited web staff of only three web developers. For years, there was only one, and only within the last three has hired two more. The influx of requests for editing content, images and redesigns on internal college pages has been unsustainable for […]