Project Elizabethtown

Building a New Site

The Sitecore Implementation Team of Elizabethtown Community and Technical College is working hard to bring about a major upgrade to our local college web site. The new site design will allow us to present our local college community as the professional organization that it is, and yet still provide a fresh, cutting edge design and color scheme that our visitors and students can feel good about and appreciate.

And best of all, the site will be much easier to navigate and have a wide range of content and information that is specifically targeted to the needs of our students and our local community. The new web site is scheduled for launch in late October, so keep watching for the latest updates on the team’s progress.  We think you’ll be proud of the results!

FAQs

When is the new site coming?

Our plan is to launch toward the end of October. As we get closer to launch, we'll share more specific time line information.

Is everything on the ECTC web site going to be moved to the new platform at launch?

Initially, no. The first round of Sitecore implementation will focus on the top 100 pages of the web site. These are the most visited and most critical pages for our audiences. The goal of these initial launches is to lay the infrastructure for a much-improved web presence. It will take quite a bit longer to migrate the thousands of other pages on our web sites. Migration of other pages will happen over a period of many months, as training and migration planning are completed. These legacy pages will remain available however from the new web site, so our existing content will not simply disappear at launch.

Will I need to change my bookmarks/favorites?

Depending on what it is, you probably will. Content will be moving to different URLs (web addresses), so your bookmarks may change. We will attempt to automatically redirect as many old URLs as possible to the new ones, which should make this easier for you. Many internally-oriented pages will be moving to thePoint, so there will be some changes.

With the improved navigation on our new site, plus an improved search engine and a "what's changed" page, we hope the transition will be a fairly smooth one.

Is every college web site going to look just like ECTC?

Not at all! Every site will have common branding elements so that all will be recognizable as part of the same KCTCS family--also, there is an approved System-wide set of design guidelines that will apply to every site.

Nonetheless, there is a great deal of flexibility within this framework. Each web site will have its own design that reflects local preferences and respects the unique identity of the college.

Who updates our new web site?

As we launch our new web site, we will be providing the tools for people to become content owners and authors. Content owners and authors will be responsible for updating the sections of the site where they are an expert. That means that the people who best understand the content are the people who are updating in for our sites and that means the information on our sites is more accurate.