TCE Website

The official website of Tontadarya College of Engineering.

Designed as a multi-owner publishing platform that allows departments and central administration to manage public content independently.

TCE website homepage showing the official public experience.

The Problem

College websites rarely fail because pages are missing.

They fail because content ownership is unclear.

Updates become bottlenecked.
Departments wait for changes.
Information becomes outdated.

The challenge was designing a system that allowed departments to operate independently without losing institutional consistency.

What I Owned

Information Architecture
Content Ownership Design
Publishing Workflows
System Design
Database Design
Backend
Frontend
Deployment

Tools I Used

The stack used to structure publishing ownership, content workflows, and the public delivery surface.

VS Code

Editor

Git

Version control

GitHub

Repository hosting

npm

Packages

Firebase

Backend platform

Firebase Firestore

Document database

Firebase Storage

File storage

Firebase Auth

Authentication

shadcn/ui

shadcn/ui

UI foundation

Tailwind CSS

Styling

ChatGPT

AI assistant

The System That Interested Me Most

ComplexityHigh

Content Ownership Model

A college is not a single publishing team.

Departments need autonomy.

The institution needs consistency.

The system separates ownership into multiple publishing scopes.

Departments manage their own content.

Institutional structure remains centrally governed.

This allows content to stay current without sacrificing consistency.

Visual Proof

Homepage

Institution-wide information and cross-department activity presented through a single public experience.

Main Admin Dashboard

Central governance of navigation, departments, users, documents, and public content.

Department Admin Dashboard

Independent publishing space for each department.

Faculty Ordering Interface

Presentation order treated as governed data rather than accidental data.

Document Explorer

A structured document system instead of a flat download page.

Department Homepage

Department-owned content rendered through a shared public structure.

Faculty Self Submission Flow

Decentralized contribution without decentralizing governance.

Systems Designed

ComplexityHigh

Content Ownership Model

Separating central governance from departmental autonomy.

ComplexityMedium

Dynamic Navigation Architecture

Navigation managed as content rather than code.

ComplexityHigh

Cross-Department Publishing

Local updates surfaced through institution-wide discovery.

ComplexityMedium

Document Library Architecture

Nested collections, breadcrumbs, and structured document discovery.

Project Snapshot

Multi-Owner Publishing Platform

Designed around:

Content Ownership
Department Administration
Publishing Workflows
Document Management
Public Discovery

Currently live at tce.ac.in

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