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Articles on Cascade Website Hosting, Cascade publishing infrastructure, Hannon Hill SaaS responsibility split, and operational disciplines specific to Cascade-published institutional websites.
16 articles
WordPress vs Cascade for Higher Education: An Operating-Model Comparison
Choosing between WordPress and Cascade for a higher education website is not a feature comparison. It is a decision about which operating model the institution wants to run.
Five Failure Modes of Cascade Website Hosting in Higher Education
Cascade publishes content reliably. The production hosting environment that receives the published output fails in five specific ways during enrollment cycles, and the symptoms are predictable.
Cascade CMS 8.23 Release Notes: What Changed and Why It Mattered
Cascade 8.23 was a minor release with three operationally significant changes: GA4 support, stronger password policy aligned to NIST 800-53, and improvements in publish reliability.
Cascade CMS 8.24 Release Notes: Asset Reporting, WebP, and Siteimprove Prepublish
Cascade 8.24 was a feature release with Suggested Unused Assets reporting, WebP image support, and Siteimprove prepublish integration. Each addressed a specific operational pain in higher ed.
What Cascade CMS Looks Like From a Developer's Perspective
Cascade CMS is often described as a content authoring tool, but the platform's developer-facing surface is where the real institutional decisions get made.
What Cascade CMS Looks Like From a Marketer's Perspective
Marketing teams in higher education need governance and consistency more than they need theme flexibility. Cascade is built for that priority order.
The Cascade CMS Hosting Gap: What Hannon Hill Doesn't Manage and Who Should
Hannon Hill manages the SaaS. Nobody told you who manages the production infrastructure that receives your published output.
How Cascade CMS Supports Modern Search Optimization
Search optimization for institutional websites is no longer a marketing exercise. It is an operating discipline that depends on what the CMS makes structurally possible.
Why CMS Selection Matters More for Higher Education Than Most Sectors
A higher education website is not a marketing site. It is a long-running institutional platform with constraints around governance, accessibility, scale, and integration that compound across years of operation.
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