---
title: "Research website design & learning platforms – Academic Digital"
description: "Website design, development, and management, plus learning platforms, resource libraries, data systems, and design for research teams."
url: https://academicdigital.co.uk/services/
---

Services

# What we can provide

One small team covering the whole life of a research project online – from the first grant bid to the static archive that keeps it findable after the funding ends.

## Websites

Design, build, and long-term management for project, network, and consortium sites – hosted, secured, and maintained by us.

- Bespoke design on an open-source CMS your team can run without technical help
- Accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA, optimised for low bandwidth and low carbon
- Multilingual publishing, using machine translation where time or budget is tight and human review where you want it
- Secure hosting, backups, monitoring, and long-term maintenance
- Static archiving for projects that need to stay online after the funding ends

## Learning platforms & resource libraries

Evidence, toolkits, and training organised the way people actually look for them – not the way they were filed.

- Searchable, faceted resource libraries and knowledge repositories
- Learning platforms, course delivery, and online training environments
- Taxonomy design, content migration, and tagging
- Guided pathways into the evidence for the questions people arrive with
- Member directories, community areas, and moderated contact routes

## Data systems & visualisation

Databases, maps, and dashboards that make long-running research data public, navigable, and useful.

- Custom research databases with public-facing search
- Interactive mapping and advanced data visualisation
- Impact reporting and monitoring dashboards

## Brand & design

Identities, report layouts, figures, and infographics for projects that need to look as credible as their science.

- Logo and identity design
- Report typesetting, figure production, and infographics
- Presentation design

## Every project includes

Whatever we build, these come as standard, not as extras.

- ### Secure, and looked after
  Hosting, security updates, backups, and uptime monitoring handled by us, for as long as the site is live.
- ### Easy for your team to update
  Page templates, content guidance, training, and a written handover, so non-technical staff can add and change content with confidence.
- ### Works on every screen
  Designed for phones first and tested on tablets and desktops, because that is how your audience will arrive.
- ### Fast and low carbon
  Light pages that load quickly on slow connections and use less energy.
- ### Accessible
  Built to WCAG 2.2 AA, tested, and with an accessibility statement your institution can use.
- ### Yours to keep
  You own your content and your domain. At the end of a project you get a full export, and an archive option if the funding stops.

Read more about our standards: [privacy](https://academicdigital.co.uk/privacy/), [accessibility](https://academicdigital.co.uk/accessibility/), [sustainability](https://academicdigital.co.uk/sustainability/) and [ethical AI](https://academicdigital.co.uk/ethical-ai/).

## How we work

Five steps, agreed up front with dates. Most projects take between two and six months, depending on how much content there is to prepare.

1. ### Review and workshop
  We look at what you have, then meet your team to agree audiences, structure, and what the site needs to do.
2. ### Content
  Your team prepares the words and images, using templates and a tracker from us. This is usually what sets the timetable.
3. ### Design and build
  Visual direction and key pages for your sign-off, then the full build on a server we set up and secure.
4. ### Integrate and test
  Content loaded, tools connected, and the site tested for speed, accessibility, and different devices.
5. ### Launch and support
  Training for your team, launch, and then ongoing hosting and support for as long as you need it.

## Ongoing hosting and support

Most research websites outlive the grant that paid for them. We keep yours online, secure, and current for a fixed annual fee, and we are still looking after sites we launched more than ten years ago.

[Ask about support](https://academicdigital.co.uk/contact/)

- Hosting on servers we manage
- Security updates and patching
- Regular backups
- Uptime monitoring
- Domain and DNS management
- Small content and layout fixes