A.M.A.L. College A bilingual college website, CMS and admissions portal

A college website carries an enormous amount of structure: administration, 15 departments, programmes, IQAC/NAAC documentation, notices, events, committees and policies. Most college sites become a maze of PDFs.

It had to serve students and parents in English and Telugu, work well on phones, stay accessible, and be maintainable by college staff without a developer.

01 Deep IA, simple surface

Organised About, Administration, Academics, 15 departments, Career & JKC, Student Services, IQAC/NAAC, Alumni, Infrastructure, Research, Media and NCC into a clear mega-navigation.

02 Warm, local visual identity

A warm cream base with marigold, orange, deep teal and maroon/gold, and bold condensed headlines that feel confident and rooted.

03 CMS for the people who run it

An admin CMS for menus, banners, homepage ordering, departments and faculty, programmes, events, gallery uploads, committees, policies with versions and a translation queue.

04 Build it, ship it

Developed on Laravel with MySQL, Blade, Bootstrap 5.3 and Alpine/Livewire, and deployed live.

• Information architecture for a deep institutional site, plus sitemap and an accessibility page
• Bilingual English/Telugu interface with a translation queue in the CMS
• Notices and events, photo and video gallery, grievance redressal, fee payment link and alumni registration
• Online admissions with applicant accounts and student and parent portals
• IQAC/NAAC document repository and policies with versions
• Admin CMS so college staff can manage content, ordering and uploads themselves

Decision 01 — Language switch in the header

EN / Telugu sits next to the primary actions, so parents can switch language before they read anything.

Decision 02 — Admissions as the hero action

‘Apply now’ is present in the header and hero; the admissions page explains that an online submission is not a confirmation until approved.

Decision 03 — Departments as scannable cards

Departments are grouped (languages, sciences, humanities and social sciences) with icons and faculty counts instead of a long list.

Decision 04 — Documents with versions

Policies and IQAC/NAAC documents are versioned in the CMS, so the public always sees the current file and history is kept.

The site is live at amal.sriniji.in, with the public website, CMS, admissions and portals designed and developed by me end to end.