nmt.edu — still live today, seven years after launch
Joined New Mexico Tech's website redesign mid-project and drove the full content migration to a new OmniCMS platform — completing 500–600 pages in five weeks against a hard Spring semester deadline.
nmt.edu — still live today, seven years after launch
New Mexico Tech had committed to a full website redesign — migrating from an outdated Joomla installation to OmniCMS, a platform built specifically for higher education. The visual design had largely been decided before I came on board. What remained was the work: migrating the content.
The original estimate was ten weeks. The deadline was fixed — the site needed to be live before the Spring semester started. When I joined the project, that math wasn't going to work.
I spent December — all of December — closing that gap.
500–600
pages migrated
5 weeks
actual migration time vs. 10-week estimate
70–80hrs
per week during the December crunch
Content migration at this scale isn't just a copy-paste exercise — every page needs to be assessed, restructured for the new platform, and checked for accuracy before it goes live. With 500–600 pages and five weeks on the clock, the only way through was systematic execution.
I prioritized high-traffic and admission-critical pages first — ensuring prospective students could find what they needed from day one — then worked through departmental and support pages methodically.
Where the existing design decisions left room for refinement, I made them — particularly on the homepage, where I contributed design updates that improved the visual hierarchy and content organization within the established template.
Department page — Financial Aid Office
Global navigation — four-column mega menu
OmniCMS brought with it a structured navigation system that organized the site's content across four primary categories — Academics, Research, Student Affairs, and Admissions & Aid — each with its own mega menu column.
This structure required every migrated page to be properly categorized and linked within the new hierarchy — adding an additional layer of decision-making to the migration process beyond simply moving content.
A persistent audience bar at the bottom — Alumni & Friends, Faculty & Staff, Current Students — ensured returning visitors had direct pathways alongside the primary prospective student navigation.
The site launched on schedule before the Spring 2018 semester. What had been estimated at ten weeks of migration work was completed in five — through December, over the holidays, at 70–80 hours a week.
The most telling measure of the work: nmt.edu is still running the same site today, seven years after launch. The platform, structure, and content decisions made during that December have held up through multiple academic years and institutional changes.
That kind of longevity doesn't happen by accident — it's the result of making sound structural decisions under pressure rather than cutting corners to hit a deadline.
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