A university site that actually works for everyone who uses it.

The Challenge

Institutional websites are among the most technically demanding builds in the agency world. Dalton State College's platform needed to serve multiple distinct user types simultaneously: administrators who manage institutional information, faculty who publish academic and departmental content, current students looking for resources, and prospective students navigating enrollment decisions.

That breadth required a wide range of features, a large number of editors with different access levels, and careful coordination across testing cycles that stretched over weeks. Nothing about it was simple, but everything about it had to work reliably.

The Engagement

Ghost Sherpa's development team built the full platform on WordPress, working through the client's requirements with extensive back-and-forth testing over several weeks to make sure every feature performed correctly before launch. The project required deep technical coordination across integrations, user roles, and content architecture designed to support a large and ongoing editorial operation.

The result is a platform Dalton State uses daily to operate, communicate, and support its faculty in managing academic and administrative work.

Why this matters for you

Complex builds don't fail on the hard requirements. They fail on the ones that seem easy until they aren't.

Institutional and enterprise websites have a way of surfacing complexity late. A feature that seemed straightforward in scope requires six rounds of testing. An integration that should take a week reveals dependencies that push it into the following month. The teams that deliver well on these projects are the ones that stay coordinated through the iteration, not the ones that hand off and disappear.

Ghost Sherpa's LATAM development teams work inside client workflows and testing cycles, not alongside them. That's the difference between a vendor and a delivery partner.