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These two websites were two distinct projects but both posed many of the same challenges.

I have worked on hundreds of school/college websites so I had a head start in understanding the users on these sites. However they both had their own unique challenges.

Trinity Hall had simple ecommerce functionality and a conference room booking integration. The more interesting feature of this project was that they wanted to digitise their college publications.

This was a particular challenge because it had tight budget restrictions. How could we handle multiple publications, which have multiple versions, with each having many articles within?

After consulting users on early designs we learned that, once the publications became digital, readers changed their habits. They viewed articles individually instead of flicking though an entire issue as they would with a print copy. Therefore we utilised the blog posts and categorisation from Wordpress with only a small amount of customisation in order to group the articles into publications, serving users pre-filtered lists but also providing the functionality to present the articles as long lists of combined issues.

Churchill College has it's own unique functionality.

There's a lot of the same: news, events, alumni, conference room booking etc. but Churchill has a world leading collection of archives from the 20th century that users need to access from around the world and in-person.