After much work researching student and prospective student needs, they came up with the final design and reviewed it with Ingeniux. Emmanuel started a phased development, spec-ing out every element of the website (this created an 80 page specification guide). There were over 100 different components required and the Ingeniux team was very helpful and communicative as the guide was developed and finalized.
The school was able to complete their redesign in a multi-step process that required them to first build out an extensive taxonomy within their Ingeniux CMS. This allowed them to organize their assets, including content and images, in a way that would make it easy for them to access and reuse their content going forward.
For the coding phase there was a lot of communication between the Ingeniux developer building the templates and components and Emmanuel as it was a very complicated design.
Emmanuel wanted to create a website that was flexible and could grow with them. They leveraged Ingeniux flex components and flex pages to do this. They wanted authors to be able to create unique and specific experiences for different departments if they wanted to, but also follow a standard design. Ingeniux offered the flexibility to grow with Emmanuel's ever changing needs.
The site also features an Ingeniux adaptive mobile website that stands out from their Ingeniux CMS website. The mobile site boasts a stripped down, minimalistic design, taking a notable departure from the desktop version. This approach made sense to Emmanuel, whose students would be looking for quick and easy access to important campus information from their mobile devices. Many mobile users would also be accessing the site while on-the-go. The simple design cuts down on the time it takes to search for information, bringing the user directly to the information they need without any of the flashy design elements that can sometimes detract from a mobile site.
For Emmanuel, there were several key Ingeniux capabilities that supported their redesign project. The first was taxonomy, which is used all over the website to repurpose information and create key topic pages. The second was the templating with flex components and pages. Flexible component pages offered a great deal of flexibility into how they created pages. It enables Emmanuel to import raw html, add widgets, different CSS, and more, enabling the marketing team to do whatever it wants, providing more opportunity to do things on the fly.
Ingeniux built the website templates and components and Hannon reviewed and approved. Next the internal web team started setting up the pages. Using their site map, Emmanuel collected copy and went through each of the four sections, building pages, uploading content, working with images. It was a very organized process. Ingeniux trained the entire marketing department on how to use the customized administration.
The entire project took between one and a half and two years, but the website structure was built over six months (there were 3000 pages). The website was populated over a summer.
Emmanuel uses Ingeniux's 360 support contract which includes training and some development hours which they use for development that is beyond their scope of knowledge. Hannon said they are very good about getting back right away. The response is usually immediate and Ingeniux support is always willing to help resolve issues.
"All of our account managers at Ingeniux have been beyond helpful and super accommodating."
Emmanuel College married the robust Ingeniux taxonomy features with a gorgeous visual-heavy design, creating an ever-evolving display on their website. Web pages never become stale or stagnant because the display changes with each new piece of content added.
