Web Design
We need to talk about FrankenCMS.
It always starts innocently enough.
Remember when a school website was just a clunky bulletin board with an outdated lunch menu and a few broken links? Those days are over. The best academic websites today do far more than share announcements they’re designed to engage, inform, and even inspire. But what actually sets them apart from the average site? Let’s dig in.
Remember when your CMS promised the moon? Drag-and-drop editing, blazing-fast load times, built-in security, intuitive workflows basically, it was supposed to be the Swiss Army knife of website management. And then reality hit. Suddenly, updating a homepage banner takes three Jira tickets and a séance.
A Reality Check for Anyone Who’s Been Living With WordPress Plugin PTSD for Too Long
When the Milwaukee Brewers get hot, George Webb Restaurants fire up one of the city’s most beloved traditions: free burgers if the Crew wins 12 in a row.
When Your Content Team Silently Quits Because Every Task Is a Nightmare
Spoiler: You Never Forget It. You Just Stop Updating It Because It’s Too Damn Hard.
How Outdated CMS Setups Make It Impossible to Iterate, and Why That’s Killing Your Growth
Ah, the eternal question: Do I blow it up and start fresh, or slap on some new paint and keep trucking?