Website Redesign

The Georgia College & State University is seeking a qualified supplier to redesign its public and intranet websites. The university desires a visually impactful template that highlights student faces/experience and caters to enrollment/external marketing efforts. The selected firm must have significant experience in conceptualizing, designing, coding, and testing large-scale educational websites. The project will be broken into two phases, with the first being an initial research and design phase, and the second phase consisting of the coding and implementation of the approved designs. The budget for this project should not exceed $250,000. Some key features required in the project include: • Intranet access restricted by university login • Degree filtering tool on public site • Global search • New pages created locally should automatically update in degree search • Tiling display of degrees on search page • More search options such as interests, type of student, program, and other common terms • Unlimited tagging on news stories • Popup modals displaying contact info for authors in news stories • News story carousels integrated onto every college/department page • A "You Might Also Like" section at the bottom of every news story • "Share on Social" options, available on all news stories • A subject matter experts database that updates automatically • Ability to toggle sound on/off in landing page hero videos • New "Bobcat Stories" page built on Admissions site • A blog page built onto each, the Undergraduate and Graduate Admissions places • Sites must be fully optimized for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accessibility • All skins/templates must have mobile-first design and/or responsive design • Ability to add custom campaign buttons and alert banners • Make site easier for content managers and administrators to customize • Permission-based editing ability but with more customization options • Utilize CMS Layout builder with paragraphs • Make all paragraphs and all areas of the site customizable through the CMS • Develop ability to have pagination for stories, announcements/events • Add pagination or carousel effect so the user can see more than three stories • Roles: Ability to define user roles (admin/content manager etc) • Reporting: Log of all page changes, log of all new content types created, log of users, permissions, and last login, log of all pages and modules used on each page along with content author, log of unpublished content, log of URL changes/updates, log of sync search • Any external (non-GCSU.edu) links included in faculty profiles, or potentially other areas, must display a disclaimer • Tagline/Branding Implementation: The website must prominently showcase GCSU's brand campaign, "It's different here," with variations of the theme serving as anchor art atop the homepage and other strategically chosen pages throughout the public site • Personalization: Map out unique user journeys for various target audiences (prospects, current students, faculty/staff, families, etc.)