The Website is in beta release

As you know, for the past year Information Technology and Marketing and Communications have been jointly working on the redevelopment of the College website. We are quickly nearing our initial goal of launching the new site with the homepage — and all content linked directly to the homepage — migrated into the new design and structure. We hope to have the site launched by August 10.

The launch of the new website complements the parallel launch of the College’s new portal MyCharleston as part of the BATTERY project. As we have discussed in each phase of the project, the new website is purposely focused toward external audiences, particularly prospective students, and largely answers the question “Why the College of Charleston?” The MyCharleston portal is focused toward internal audiences and answers the question “How do I find or do something at the College of Charleston?” Both will make information more easily accessible to their respective audiences.

Of course, there will be a significant amount of work to do after the initial launch as we continue migrate all the sites that are not yet incorporated into the new design. Content managers in each department and office will be identified and trained, and individual sites will be migrated into the new design over the next academic year. You will see more information about this process immediately after the main site is launched.