An engineering college running six UG programs, Computer Science & Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, CSE Data Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Civil Engineering, alongside PG programs in MBA and MCA, is not a single-audience website problem. It is a multi-department content management problem that happens to have a public-facing layer.
VCET Puttur’s existing site had not been structured to handle that complexity. Content across departments existed without a coherent hierarchy, which meant that a prospective student looking for program-specific information, a parent researching placements, or a faculty member managing departmental content were all working against a structure not designed with any of them in mind. The URL architecture was inconsistent, compounding the navigation problem and limiting search discoverability. Department teams with varying levels of technical comfort had no straightforward way to keep their sections current, meaning content either went stale or required excessive central effort to update.
The problem was structural before it was visual. A redesign addressing only the surface without resolving the underlying architecture would have produced the same maintenance and navigation failures in a newer skin.
