Planning a Community College Website Around Your Students and Team
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Start with the work your website needs to do
Your website serves prospective students, current students, staff, and community partners. A redesign should make common tasks easier while giving your team a manageable publishing process.
List the journeys that matter: exploring a program, finding admissions information, checking an event, or contacting a department. Review where visitors encounter unclear content or unnecessary steps.
Choose structure before decoration
Navigation, page templates, and content ownership shape how useful the website becomes. A custom design can reflect your college’s identity while using consistent patterns for program pages, announcements, and other recurring content.
Reusable layouts are valuable when they fit the work. The important question is whether editors can maintain them and visitors can understand them.
Give editors tools they can use
Explore our CMS features to see the content tools available for college websites. Confirm the workflows, permissions, integrations, and training included in your engagement rather than assuming every feature is part of every project.
A visual editor is one part of the solution. Clear responsibilities and ongoing support help keep content current after launch.
Include migration and hosting in the plan
Inventory existing pages and decide what to keep, update, consolidate, or retire. Map changed URLs to appropriate destinations and verify the important journeys before launch.
Our web design and managed hosting service explains the process and responsibilities. Published pricing shows recurring costs and one-time fees so your team can begin evaluating the investment.
Agree on how progress will be measured
Establish a baseline before changing the site. Useful measures can include task completion, qualified inquiries, content publishing effort, and technical findings. Use actual data and a defined comparison period when reporting results.
Contact College Inbound to discuss your college, current website, and project scope.