Creative Education With Glasgow School of Arts
Provided long-term maintenance and site updates for Glasgow School of Art’s website, ensuring accessibility and performance for a wide creative audience.
Key outcome
Ongoing accessibility and performance improvements across a high-traffic site
Overview
The Glasgow School of Art is one of Europe's leading institutions for visual creative disciplines, with a global reputation for artistic excellence and innovation. We joined the project to provide ongoing support and enhancements to their existing website, ensuring their digital presence stays as contemporary and functional as the work produced within their studios.
The Problem
GSA's website serves multiple distinct audiences, including current students, alumni, researchers, and prospective applicants. Over time, page layouts had drifted from their original design intent, with inconsistencies in spacing, typography, and component behaviour across different templates. Performance and accessibility also needed attention to meet the standards expected of a leading educational institution.
The Build
We worked across multiple page templates to enhance layout consistency, accessibility, and performance. Updates included refining the editorial structure for exhibition pages, degree show galleries, and academic event listings. We collaborated closely with GSA's internal team to support content rollouts tied to exhibitions, open days, and student showcases, ensuring each launch landed with visual polish.
Performance tuning focused on asset optimisation and loading strategies, while accessibility improvements covered colour contrast, keyboard navigation, and screen reader compatibility across the template library.
The Outcome
GSA's website now delivers a more consistent, accessible experience across all audience touchpoints. The template refinements mean new pages inherit proper layout structure by default, reducing the effort required for each content rollout. The ongoing partnership has given their internal team confidence that the site can scale with the institution's needs while showcasing the vibrancy of its creative community.
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What does Hilvy do for Glasgow School of Art?
We provide ongoing Webflow maintenance and site enhancements for Glasgow School of Art, including accessibility improvements, page refreshes, and content rollouts for exhibitions, degree shows, and academic events.
What services did Hilvy provide for Glasgow School of Art?
Our services include Webflow maintenance, automated processes, custom API integrations using Zapier and Make, and ongoing layout and accessibility improvements.
Why does Glasgow School of Art use Webflow?
Webflow gives GSA's editorial team easy control over a complex, multi-audience site, serving students, alumni, researchers, and prospective applicants, while giving our team the flexibility to improve performance and accessibility over time.
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