Alamo Colleges

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Five colleges, one voice.

The Alamo Colleges approached C2 with a Texas-sized problem: What had historically been five separate and autonomous colleges needed to fuse with the District Offices as one. And a new website was going to be the marketing glue that held them together.  Did we mention that The Alamo College system is one of the nation's largest community colleges? No pressure, right?

The Glitz

We immediately rolled up our sleeves and and got to work. Extensive on-site research, interviews with a wide range of constituencies, and in-depth discovery sessions combined with a collaborative design process to create the new look. In the end, we leveraged the strength of the Alamo brand and the power of the Ektron CMS400.NET to unify the schools, while still allowing each to stand proudly on its own.

The Guts

Ektron's CMS shines in the Alamo environment.  The same templates are leveraged across each college's pages.  Workflows govern content creation.  Permissions keep the right people focused on the right pages.  I.T. can shed worrying about content.  Admissions folks can focus on recruiting.  We love it when a plan comes together.

 

What we did

  • Design provides differentiation for each school, while unifying under one set of standards.
  • The site is highly 508 compliant without sacrificing any marketing "pop".
  • Mission accomplished: The Alamo Colleges brand unifies the site while each school displays its own look and feel.  
  • Common .ASPX templates allow unified messaging and allow for easy cross training of content administrators
  • Content managers control both content and core functionality, tailoring messages and page function for a variety of audiences.
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