Promoting academic excellence and innovation
The site presents the foundation's projects, chairs and initiatives in a clearer structure for donors, partners and academic communities.
Case study · Foundation / Higher education
Fondation Universite Paris Cite
wordpress redesign
Website redesign for Fondation Universite Paris Cite to help support the university's projects and research.
project stack
WordPressStripeOHMEForms
WordPressStripeOHMEFormsMeasurable impact
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online donations
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connected CRM
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custom back office
Project context
Why this project, for whom.
Fondation Universite Paris Cite supports education, research and innovation.
The redesign had to make initiatives more visible, simplify online donations and give the internal team more editorial autonomy.
Modernizing the foundation website
The redesign addressed the previous site's limits by clarifying messages, improving visual consistency and simplifying access to donation journeys.
A visual design serving the user experience
The new design balances institutional credibility, modernity and accessible content so each audience can understand the foundation's impact.
Before and after: a new breath for the website
The new platform gives the foundation a more professional, coherent and maintainable digital presence.
Smotly methodology
The project moved quickly through scoping, design, WordPress development, integration, testing and launch, with regular collaboration between teams.
Project highlight
A tailored WordPress back office for team autonomy
The site distinguishes between unique corporate pages and repeatable templates for projects, chairs and news.
Templates keep layouts consistent while letting teams update content independently, reducing errors and simplifying day-to-day management.
Business challenge
« Modernize the foundation's website, highlight research and innovation projects, facilitate donations and connect Stripe and OHME. »
Before / after
A refreshed website for a new chapter
A more contemporary website to showcase projects, chairs, donations and the Foundation's initiatives.
Before
After
Product previews
A few key screens from the delivered product.
Project architecture
A stack designed to talk to your information system.
Front
- Front endCustom theme
Core
- WordPressEditorial back office
- Business pluginsForms, SEO, content
Information system integration
- StripePayments and donations
- OHMECommunity management
What we delivered
A clear scope, zero drift.
- 01WordPress redesign
- 02UX/UI and editorial templates
- 03Donation journey and project pages
- 04Stripe payment integration
- 05OHME community-management integration
- 06SEO and content migration
- 07Team handover
What it produced
Results measurable.
- A more professional and coherent website, ready for the academic-year launch.
- WordPress templates that preserve editorial autonomy.
- Donation and content journeys with a clearer structure.
- Useful tool integrations for the foundation's teams.
« After many years of trust, it was natural for me to call on Smotly's expertise and professionalism for the redesign of our website. To name only a few strengths: a fast and optimal understanding of our needs and objectives, a precise 360-degree vision, effective daily support, expert and relevant advice, a dynamic, innovative and highly responsive team, a respected schedule and practical, easy-to-use working tools. This project is coming to an end, the result exceeds our expectations and I hope to have new projects to grow and complete with Smotly very soon. »
Johanna Levy
Communications, Marketing & Events Manager
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