At colleges and universities around the country, web developers and content managers use LiveWhale CMS to create great stuff every day. Here are a few of our favorite examples.
A custom back end implementation used on the homepage generates color palettes from homepage feature photos, testing palette color combinations for accessibility in the process.
Academic department sites are displayed as graphic cards on the academics homepage and elsewhere.
Purchase’s college catalog was built in LiveWhale, and data from the catalog populates departmental pages on courses and requirements throughout the site.
The Purchase admissions ambassador blog has some wonderful posts, all created in LiveWhale blogs by Purchase students.
Northeastern’s Explore Funds page uses Profiles to display the various funds that donors can target their contributions to, solving one of the thorniest problems in higher ed philanthropy.
Day of Giving: an ambitious, highly customized application built by ASU staff for last year’s Giving Tuesday.
Library databases (says Karl, head of support: “Might be too geeky or not pretty enough, but it uses back-end customizations that are really impressive.”)
Penn Nursing’s global health page visualizes a set of blurbs on a Google map. (This isn’t a custom feature: maps are heavily integrated throughout the CMS.)
The homepage “tag wheel” opens an overlay with stories, course listings, faculty/staff/student profiles, student research projects, flora and fauna, and more.
Below the fold, it features an events widget combining courses, dining hall meals, campus events, sunrise and sunset, and high and low tide.
The site uses Profiles to create rich, compelling course listings.
