Custom CMS and public website for a graduate institution serving 5,500+ scholars and 20+ doctoral faculty.
The college had no central system for publishing academic programs, faculty, or news. Information lived across paper notices, social media posts, and a static brochure site. Prospective students had no way to compare programs or read about faculty before deciding to apply.
Sections from the live site — hero, primary surfaces, and the close.
Designed and built a custom Laravel-based CMS with content types for academic programs, faculty, departments, news, events, gallery, and testimonials. Public site reads from this CMS with server-rendered HTML. Storage layer separates uploaded media (gallery, faculty photos, settings) from theme assets so admins can manage content without touching the codebase. Faculty and student panels with role-based access for future expansion.
Cataloged every program, faculty member, news post, and existing asset.
Custom Laravel CMS with content types tuned to college operations, not generic blog primitives.
Server-rendered pages with cached responses. Image-heavy gallery offloaded to a CDN-friendly storage path.
Walkthroughs, written docs, and a 30-day support window.
Laravel was the right tool because the operations team needed structured content types, role-based permissions, and a relational data model — not a flat blog. The custom CMS pattern (over WordPress) won because faculty profiles, departments, and academic programs do not fit the WordPress post primitive cleanly.
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