NSCAD Extended Studies Website
- 6+ Years Live and Unchanged
- Hand-coded Stylesheet from Scratch
- Live Still in Active Use
As part of the NSCAD Extended Studies brand project, I built and developed the department website from scratch, writing the stylesheet entirely in Visual Studio. A stylesheet that remains unchanged six years later.
This wasn't a template or a CMS build. It was written by hand, with deliberate attention to how it would hold up over time in the hands of non-designers and administrators who would need to update it without breaking it.
What I Built
- Designed and built the full department website integrated with the Extended Studies brand system
- Wrote the stylesheet from scratch in Visual Studio, no frameworks, no templates
- Designed for maintainability so non-designer staff could update content without disrupting visual integrity
- Ensured the site worked alongside NSCAD University's broader web presence while feeling distinct to Extended Studies
The Design Thinking
A website for an institution has to outlast the person who built it. That was the non-negotiable constraint. Every CSS decision, every structural choice was made with one question in mind: can someone who didn't write this maintain it confidently?
Six years of unchanged stylesheet says yes. That's not luck, it's the result of writing code that explains itself, structuring things clearly enough that future maintainers can follow the logic without documentation. That's also the best kind of design: so considered in its construction that it doesn't need to be touched.
