LSU New Orleans

The challenge: a fixed launch date and a page limit nobody planned for

The launch date was set by the July 1 rebrand and by the university's enrollment window for incoming students, so it could not move. A few weeks into the Webflow migration, a new constraint surfaced. The Webflow plan allowed around 500 static pages, with 800 as a hard ceiling, and the university had thousands. The original plan, one Webflow page for every Drupal page, could not work. We needed a new migration model, and we needed it while the clock kept running.

"I was sort of surprised by the Webflow limited pages."
— Nick Defelice, COO and Co-Founder, ThreeSixtyEight

How we migrated 9,000+ pages into Webflow with a hybrid model

Instead of fighting the cap, we split the site three ways. Repeating content such as news, media and people profiles became native CMS collections. LSU New Orleans and ThreeSixtyEight chose the pages that mattered most, and we rebuilt those 532 as static pages. Everything else became CMS items written straight through the Webflow API. In front of it all we built a reverse proxy on Cloudflare Workers, so legacy URL paths kept resolving, and we retokenized the old stylesheet against the new style guide variables. To check thousands of pages without a small army, we built an AI-assisted QA pipeline that compared every migrated page with its original, plus a review tool for the client team, a backlink checker, and SEO and accessibility audits.

• 9,000+ pages and CMS items moved from Drupal into Webflow
• 532 priority pages rebuilt as static Webflow pages
• 1,500 pages checked in a single QA batch

"Hey, y'all are doing an awesome job, I really, really appreciate it, like, y'all come back with such good solutions that, like, you give me so much confidence, so thank you."
— Nick Defelice, COO and Co-Founder, ThreeSixtyEight

How we launched ahead of the rebrand

In the final weeks we worked the DNS cutover with the university's IT team, and the new site went live on lsuneworleans.edu on June 29, two days before the rebrand, about 13 weeks after the project was signed. The old uno.edu domain now redirects to the new one. We handed over a maintenance guide and stayed close after launch, from tag manager setup to working a support ticket through with Webflow, so ThreeSixtyEight's team had backup when the university asked for changes.

• ~13 weeks from signed project to launch
• Live before the July 1 rebrand

"I just want to say thank you for all the work. I know it's complicated and a lot of work and y'all did a good job."
— Nick Defelice, COO and Co-Founder, ThreeSixtyEight

What happened after launch

ThreeSixtyEight came back for more. A follow-on work order added five security headers at the proxy (HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy and Permissions-Policy) and a script that cleaned up page markup across the CMS. A second one tuned caching on the proxy. The next phase, moving more of the site into native CMS collections, is already underway on ThreeSixtyEight's side, on the foundation this migration put in place.

• 5 security headers live at the proxy
• 2 follow-on work orders after launch

"thanks for keeping up with all the Slack messages and the communication has been good. All your updates have been really good."
— Nick Defelice, COO and Co-Founder, ThreeSixtyEight

Credits

Client: LSU New Orleans

Agency partner and design of the new core pages: ThreeSixtyEight

Migration, reverse proxy, QA tooling and post-launch support: the Fri3nds team. Federico Rano (technical lead), Nico, Esteban Muñiz, Marcelo Russo

Services: Drupal to Webflow migration, Webflow Enterprise build, Cloudflare Workers reverse proxy, AI-assisted QA, SEO and accessibility audits, security headers, web ops