Web Design

Your website is great visually. But visitors are bouncing before they see it. Sound familiar?

If you are in charge of a website, you might have experienced this contradiction between the different parties in your company. Your design team wants the visuals to be perfect to the last pixel. Your boss wants more visitors. And meanwhile, you're caught in the middle, wondering if you actually have to choose between the two.

Here's the good news: you don't.

By 2026, saying “we’re using AI” will mean about as much as saying “we have a website.” The real differentiator is how AI is integrated, and whether anyone on your team actually trusts the output.

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Remember when a school website was just a clunky bulletin board with an outdated lunch menu and a few broken links?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.