An academic lab website is often the primary place where its work is presented to the world. It showcases lab members, research projects, and publications, and helps establish credibility with collaborators, funding agencies, and prospective students. Yet most lab websites are built using generic tools that were never designed for research environments. As a result, [...]
Most labs invest significant time in creating and launching their websites. What gets far less attention is lab website support: the ongoing work that keeps a site up-to-date, functional, and relevant long after launch day. For research labs, that gap between launch and long-term reality is where things turn south. People join and leave. Publications [...]
Academic lab websites are often built with the same tools and assumptions as small businesses or personal websites. At first glance, this seems reasonable: a homepage, a few pages, and a clean design. In practice, this approach usually withers in academic environments. After working with professors and principal investigators across many universities throughout the United [...]
A research lab website needs to evolve alongside the lab itself. New publications, new team members, and new projects all need to be reflected quickly and accurately. But many labs find that keeping their website up to date becomes harder over time. This isn’t a research problem. It’s a website structure problem. Structured content provides [...]
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