Experience a new level of student engagement, efficiency, and organization with the combined power of Hannon Hill's Cascade Content Management System (CMS) and Beacon's expert team of strategists and developers. Built with higher education in mind, Cascade CMS ensures your institution's website meets the needs of today's students while streamlining the back-end management process.
As Hannon Hill's longest-standing partner, Beacon brings unmatched expertise to your Cascade CMS web development project, providing insights and support you simply won’t find elsewhere. Let’s build a website that drives real results for your college or university!
After more than 20 years leading higher education web design and development journeys, we know a thing or two about what higher education marketers like you look for in a CMS. You need a system that provides value, customization, and appeals to a varied audience of stakeholders. Trust our experience with hundreds of clients when we say that Cascade CMS works for higher education. Our team loves it, and here's why we're confident you will too:
Organization is fundamental to a higher education CMS, and like a good course syllabus, Cascade CMS is hyper-focused on the fundamentals. With a "cascading" folder structure interface that's easy to learn for entry-level content owners and experienced developers alike, working with Cascade CMS is a project manager's dream. Controls, roles, permissions, and content locks keep your team aligned, organized, and always in control.
The last thing you want is for your digital marketing efforts to go to waste, especially if you're investing in paid advertising to target specific audiences. Cascade CMS's platform encourages you to take digital marketing to the next level with Clive, its groundbreaking personalization tool. Reaching students who fit your programs with strategic content has never been easier; no 3rd party integrations required!
Often, we hear from content owners that making website updates is "too complicated" or takes too much time and effort. With Cascade CMS, if you're familiar with Microsoft Word and your file explorer, that's all the expertise you need! Dynamic "update once, publish everywhere" modules allow content owners to maximize their time. Edit one module to push updates across dozens of pages, instead of rewriting every single one individually.
A Cascade server setup makes it easy to manage multiple websites, destinations, and servers all in one place. Running several sites under your umbrella, like alumni or graduate program subsites? No problem. Cascade CMS allows multiple sites to coexist on a single server, with the flexibility of various publish destinations. This means you can update entire sites without fear of affecting your live content—until you're sure it's ready for production.
You've worked hard establishing your school's brand, and it's critical to convey it properly. Our designers love Cascade CMS because it's easy to establish universal, responsive design standards with a system that automatically verifies WCAG and ADA compliance. Cascade CMS ensures that even if 100 content owners are accessing your templates, your brand, colors, and personality will shine through the same way.
With decades of higher education website development under our belt, Beacon can attest to the value of a proprietary CMS that's still highly customizable. Cascade CMS seamlessly integrates with your existing systems and connects to other 3rd party tools via various feed and file types. Not sure about your integrations? Lean on Beacon to help figure out a plan. Our Cascade CMS-trained developers are pros at finding the best solutions for your school.
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We've seen large research universities, local community colleges, and every kind of institution in between benefit from the award-winning collaboration of Hannon Hill's Cascade CMS and Beacon's web development services. But don’t just take our word for it— check out our most recent Cascade web design, redesign, and development projects.
Hannon Hill has been in business for 25 years, and Beacon has been a proud partner for almost as long. Over the decades we've collaborated on countless higher education website projects, online workshops, in person events, and tradeshows, navigating the evolution of Cascade CMS from its inception.
Powered by Hannon Hill's Cascade CMS, Beacon's LuxEd package is an exclusive suite of services promising value, consistency, and efficiency you won't find elsewhere with total savings averaging around $50k.
LuxEd is the all-in-one solution for higher education marketing. Get more from your website with built-in essential support services in addition to a comprehensive Cascade redesign project. We're talking complimentary paid advertising, free hosting, integrated technical support, post-launch maintenance, and more to accompany your web design, development, content strategy, and server set up. And your Cascade CMS subscription is included!
The best part? Beacon does it all, and we do it fast. That's right—one single point of contact, one trusted team, one price, and a new, optimized Cascade CMS website in less than 12 months. What are you waiting for?
