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Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education:
Are You Typical?
Slide 1
Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher
Education: Are You Typical?
Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education:
Are You Typical?
Slide 2
1) Audits
2) The Question
3) Variability as the Norm
4) Long Term Plan
5) Guide Your Redesign
Overview
Source: Higher Education Marketing – Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical?
Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education:
Are You Typical?
Slide 3
 In the process of doing our business we conduct a lot of
website audits for colleges and universities.
 In an audit we look at many things including, a school’s
search rankings, web analytics, technical site configuration,
social media integration, SEO, SEM, design, usability, etc.
 In these discussions with a site’s managers, we provide
feedback to them on their site versus an ideal standard of
“best practices” in higher ed marketing and versus their
competition.
1. Audits
Source: Higher Education Marketing – Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical?
Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education:
Are You Typical?
Slide 4
 These conversations lead down many paths, depending on
the school's most immediate marketing priorities but often
the question comes up, “Do you think we should redesign
our site?”
 This is challenging question whose answer is dependent on
many specific local factors and where their site is in its “life-
cycle”.
 To get better at answering this question we have spent quite
a bit of time thinking about what is most important across the
”life-cycle” of a successful higher education website and how
to help our clients create it.
2. The Question
Source: Higher Education Marketing – Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical?
Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education:
Are You Typical?
Slide 5
 Over the last few years we have seen the full gamut from
those that have done complete redesigns 3 years in a row,
to those who are perfectly satisfied (and successful),
incrementally tweaking their site for 5 years in a row, before
redesigning.
 Local factors as wide ranging as crashing KPIs, a rebranding
exercise, a new college president, a move to a new CMS, etc, can all
motivate a redesign and immediately redefine your site’s life-cycle.
 In fact, it seems most prudent to expect the likelihood of
unpredictable and changing life-cycle “conditions” like these and
manage your website accordingly.
 So if this variability is the norm, how do you manage across a
website’s life-cycle?
3. Variability as the Norm
Source: Higher Education Marketing – Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical?
Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education:
Are You Typical?
Slide 6
 Using this example, it is my argument that it is not managing to the four year
life-cycle that’s most important, rather it is the common strategy and process
you use along the way to manage your site, through each stage, that will
define the overall success of the site at any given point.
4. Long Term Plan
Source: Higher Education Marketing – Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical?
Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education:
Are You Typical?
Slide 7
 By breaking down the life-cycle of your site into these
iterative cycles and processes you can more effectively
manage your website through your long term plan as well as
through a wide range of changing local factors.
5. Guiding Your Redesign
Source: Higher Education Marketing – Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical?
Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education:
Are You Typical?
Slide 8
5. Guiding Your Redesign
Source: Higher Education Marketing – Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical?
Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education:
Are You Typical?
Slide 9
 The individual components of each stage provide an outline
of the elements you need to attend to as you manage your
site through successive iterations of revision, updating and
redesign.
 It can be used at the high level to guide your redesign or at a
very granular level to manage the development and
implementation of a special web project.
5. Guiding Your Redesign
Source: Higher Education Marketing – Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical?
Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education:
Are You Typical?
Slide 10
Questions?
1.514.312.3968
info@higher-education-marketing.com
Visit our Website: Higher Education Marketing
FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK
FOLLOW US ON LINKEDIN
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER
FOLLOW US ON PINTEREST
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Managing website life cycle in higher education

  • 1. Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical? Slide 1 Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical?
  • 2. Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical? Slide 2 1) Audits 2) The Question 3) Variability as the Norm 4) Long Term Plan 5) Guide Your Redesign Overview Source: Higher Education Marketing – Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical?
  • 3. Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical? Slide 3  In the process of doing our business we conduct a lot of website audits for colleges and universities.  In an audit we look at many things including, a school’s search rankings, web analytics, technical site configuration, social media integration, SEO, SEM, design, usability, etc.  In these discussions with a site’s managers, we provide feedback to them on their site versus an ideal standard of “best practices” in higher ed marketing and versus their competition. 1. Audits Source: Higher Education Marketing – Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical?
  • 4. Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical? Slide 4  These conversations lead down many paths, depending on the school's most immediate marketing priorities but often the question comes up, “Do you think we should redesign our site?”  This is challenging question whose answer is dependent on many specific local factors and where their site is in its “life- cycle”.  To get better at answering this question we have spent quite a bit of time thinking about what is most important across the ”life-cycle” of a successful higher education website and how to help our clients create it. 2. The Question Source: Higher Education Marketing – Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical?
  • 5. Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical? Slide 5  Over the last few years we have seen the full gamut from those that have done complete redesigns 3 years in a row, to those who are perfectly satisfied (and successful), incrementally tweaking their site for 5 years in a row, before redesigning.  Local factors as wide ranging as crashing KPIs, a rebranding exercise, a new college president, a move to a new CMS, etc, can all motivate a redesign and immediately redefine your site’s life-cycle.  In fact, it seems most prudent to expect the likelihood of unpredictable and changing life-cycle “conditions” like these and manage your website accordingly.  So if this variability is the norm, how do you manage across a website’s life-cycle? 3. Variability as the Norm Source: Higher Education Marketing – Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical?
  • 6. Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical? Slide 6  Using this example, it is my argument that it is not managing to the four year life-cycle that’s most important, rather it is the common strategy and process you use along the way to manage your site, through each stage, that will define the overall success of the site at any given point. 4. Long Term Plan Source: Higher Education Marketing – Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical?
  • 7. Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical? Slide 7  By breaking down the life-cycle of your site into these iterative cycles and processes you can more effectively manage your website through your long term plan as well as through a wide range of changing local factors. 5. Guiding Your Redesign Source: Higher Education Marketing – Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical?
  • 8. Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical? Slide 8 5. Guiding Your Redesign Source: Higher Education Marketing – Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical?
  • 9. Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical? Slide 9  The individual components of each stage provide an outline of the elements you need to attend to as you manage your site through successive iterations of revision, updating and redesign.  It can be used at the high level to guide your redesign or at a very granular level to manage the development and implementation of a special web project. 5. Guiding Your Redesign Source: Higher Education Marketing – Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical?
  • 10. Managing Website Life-cycle in Higher Education: Are You Typical? Slide 10 Questions? 1.514.312.3968 info@higher-education-marketing.com Visit our Website: Higher Education Marketing FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK FOLLOW US ON LINKEDIN FOLLOW US ON TWITTER FOLLOW US ON PINTEREST FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE+