HGTC.com: A Work In Progress

HGTC is a 2 year technical college in Conway, SC. The website is built on top of a CMS which is XML document based. There’s no direct access to customize the database, and overall it’s a very static site.

In addition, it’s very old and very big. Because everything is document based, making large scale updates are a challenge because there’s no modern development framework to make deploying new code changes easy. Starting in October 2025, I’ll begin the process of refactoring and re-deploying the site.

Goals

• Make the site fully html5 and responsive
• Make the site easier for AI Models to parse and understand our information
• Automate as much of the publishing workflow as possible