Outdated Platforms
Websites and portals running on old CMS versions or plugins no one has updated in years
Web and web app management for institutions whose site was built for
a different era of higher ed and never got the update it needed.
Honestly, most college websites weren't designed, they accumulated. A homepage from 2011, a portal bolted on in 2015, a couple microsites nobody even remembers launching, all sitting on a CMS that the person who set it up left years ago. Nobody's against fixing it. There's just never enough time, budget, or in-house expertise to actually do it properly.
Most institutions aren't actually short on website budget. They're short on a team that can maintain one after it launches. Marketing builds a beautiful new site, hands it off, and eighteen months later nobody's updated the plugins, three forms are broken, and it already looks dated again. We treat a website like infrastructure that needs upkeep, not a project with an end date.
Every institution's website and web app footprint looks different — different CMS, different age, different history of quick fixes. But whether we're patching something ten years old or building a new portal from scratch, here's what you can count on:
Websites and portals running on old CMS versions or plugins no one has updated in years
Custom forms, portals, or micro-sites built once and left unmaintained until something quietly stops working
Pages that take too long to load, hurting search rankings, and losing prospective students before they engage
Sites and applications running outdated code, exposing your institution to vulnerabilities and potential data breaches
No internal team or clear process for updating, fixing, or expanding the website when needs change