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Taking an Evolutionary Approach to Website Improvement

by TJ Gunther

Higher ed websites for years have gone through a familiar life cycle:

  1. Colleges and universities commit large budgets to a new website, involving a new design, content management system, and content.
  2. A regular, much smaller budget sustains the website for many years with new content, but minimal major changes.
  3. The digital landscape changes and evolves, and users have new expectations of a website.
  4. With their website looking older and more dated every day, colleges and universities restart the process to realign with where users are now, taking another two years before they have a new site.

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