After updating and maintaining several Pediatrics department websites it became clear that many pages were heavily customized with outdated code. These customizations made it difficult for new editors to update content, often caused layout inconsistencies, and even led to slow performance or page lag within the CMS.

To resolve this, our team began a division-wide de-customization project. The goal was to remove unstable or non-standard code, restore pages to UCSD’s approved CMS templates, and ensure that every site could be maintained easily and consistently by current and future staff.

I contributed by reviewing and cleaning the pages assigned to me, noting all edits in a shared tracking spreadsheet, and ensuring each site’s layout matched UCSD’s official web standards and accessibility requirements.