A flexible, multilingual platform for a global education provider

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The client

Malvern International is a publicly-listed, English language provider offering educational and cultural experiences to students all over the world.

The challenge

Malvern operates a growing number of websites, including unique brands as well as others that are affiliated with British universities. They were searching for an efficient way of designing, developing, hosting and managing these websites. They wanted to develop a modular design system whereby a suite of content blocks could be styled to match different in-house and external brands simply and effectively. In addition, they wanted to be able to create and manage all content internally, so required an intuitive, user-friendly system.

The result

Novagram’s response combined WordPress Multisite and Elementor to allow for a large number of websites that shared common components, hosting, team logins, and also massively simplified maintenance. We designed and developed over 60 pre-styled content blocks that allowed for flexible, in-house page-building. This was supported by multilingual functionality, mobile-first UX, multimedia content and CRM-integrated lead capture. We supplied training and extensive written and video instructions to ensure that Malvern’s in-house team were self-sufficient.

In addition, we updated the core Malvern brand identity and several of its sub-brands, to create unity while also preserving individuality.

The new sites – eleven so far – position Malvern as a market leader with a modern design, intuitive user experience. The robust backend tools provide a future-ready platform that this growing company can manage and evolve independently.