University Website Development

Websites and Apps for Universities: Excellence through Technical Precision

University websites are vast, complex ecosystems. Serving a diverse audience of prospective students, global researchers, and alumni requires more than just a collection of pages, it requires a structured, scalable digital foundation.

With over 7 years of experience and a team of 30+ specialists, we build future-proof platforms for prestigious institutions, including our recent work with Merton College, University of Oxford. We specialise in "unpicking" legacy academic structures and replacing them with high-performance, entity-driven solutions.

Proven at Oxford

We designed and built the digital platform for Merton College, University of Oxford, on Payload CMS: a headless architecture serving one of the oldest academic institutions in the world, with the editorial governance, accessibility and longevity that the setting demands.

The Power of Entity-Based Architecture

We model your institution as structured entities, courses, people, departments, events, research, rather than as pages.

Write Once, Publish Anywhere

A course, an academic profile or an event is entered once and appears everywhere it is relevant: department pages, course listings, search results, prospectuses.

The benefit: hundreds of editors stop maintaining the same fact in forty places, and your content stops contradicting itself.

Structured Data & Discoverability

Entity-based content generates the structured data that search engines and AI systems increasingly rely on, so courses and research surface correctly wherever prospective students look.

The benefit: discoverability engineered in, not retrofitted.

Total Reusability

New sites, microsites, prospectuses and apps draw on the same entities, so each new initiative starts from your content rather than from zero.

The benefit: the platform compounds in value with every project built on it.

Compliance is engineering, not paperwork

UK public sector bodies are legally required to meet accessibility requirements, and many universities fall within the scope of The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018. Every platform we build meets WCAG 2.2 AA and is monitored continuously with SiteBeacon, which tracks accessibility, Core Web Vitals and carbon page by page, giving your team evidence for audits rather than assurances. The same monitoring supports institutional sustainability reporting: our builds are engineered lean, and the carbon data is there to publish.

The benefit: accessibility and sustainability move from risk register to evidence base.

Specialised Technology for Education

Structured content management with Sanity or Payload CMS, high-performance front-ends in Next.js or Astro, and the integrations universities actually need: student record systems, event platforms, research repositories and authentication. Astro added; its content-first, low-JavaScript architecture suits institutional sites unusually well.

Working With Institutions

We understand institutional procurement: fixed governance, long horizons and accountable budgets. Our London, Oxford and Dhaka structure allows us to deliver senior engineering at a lower cost than a traditional UK agency, while maintaining the technical standards expected by major institutions. After launch, maintenance partnerships from £750 per month give your team published, predictable costs with a transparent portal, which procurement teams tend to appreciate more than anyone.

We’d love to hear about your website, app, or software needs.

Our discovery call is a straightforward chat to understand your goals and requirements. This allows us to provide a quote or arrange a technical follow-up to dive deeper into the architecture.

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