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Beacon College

Beacon College is a unique higher-education institution in central Florida catering to students with learning differences. Being a large education site, this was a team effort, with me taking the role of lead developer.

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Technology

WordPress is my go-to platform, especially for huge projects like education websites. We leaned on a handful of plug-ins, primarily Advanced Custom Fields and its Flexible Content field. The Flexible Content block is a fantastic tool for building out a reusable set of blocks that fit a particular style – giving marketers, content writers, or clients the flexibility to build pages that they desire without feeling like they have to start with a blank canvas every time.

Challenges

The main challenge with Beacon was the sheer scope and scale of the project. Regardless of how much we worked, it just seemed like the project continued to grow. For example, we had not designed a “Faculty – Single” page. We discovered this very late in the project, but I was able to save at least half a day’s worth of work by utilizing my design background. Rather than passing the page to a designer, and waiting for revisions. Then, I dove right in and designed AND developed the page on the fly, and was done in two hours.