St. John's College
St. John’s distinctive liberal arts curriculum and educational practices have long given it a highly respected place among American colleges and universities. Their website expresses their creativity with a complex design that demands precision. They chose Liberta Server - concrete5 because they trust the company behind it.
As with all education websites, content contributors come and go with varying levels of technical expertise. St. John’s needed a flexible CMS that could deliver drag-and-drop editing for authors making organic content, while still keeping everything looking consistent and on-brand.
SJC liked concrete5 for its balance of power and ease of use. They picked the development team behind Liberta Server to build the basic site and theme to match their designs. St. John’s took on the process of building out content internally, which was possible through the thorough support on Liberta Server.
Legally, SJC needed to know they were meeting 508 Accessibility standards, and knowing the solution is ISO 27001 complaint ads a level of safety as well. Through the DevOps power of Liberta Server, the technical staff at SJC.edu are able to keep costs low by making code changes to their sites themselves, but still getting the security review and best practices advice their website deserves.
Performance is a concern for SJC. When their educators are featured on national TV as topic experts, visitor traffic can grow exponentially in a moment. With the caching and scaling abilities of Liberta Server, downtime at these peek times has been eliminated.
"The support is always there for me with thorough, helpful, and complete answers. If something goes wrong, I know everything’s going to be okay."
-Laura Clausen
Web Developer, SJC.EDU