The beautiful spring weather has inspired many schools to launch new websites recently.My favourite design is probably the Enchanted Nursery School – but with a name like that, the scope for design fun is huge! Here’s a selection of other sites we’ve launched in the last six weeks:
When budgets are tight, a new school website can seem like a luxury. But here are 5 ways you can use your website to save you money. Upload school newsletters to the website. Not only does this save printing & paper costs, but prospective parents can also get a flavour of the fun and interesting things which go on in your school. Upload letters to parents to the website. Again, [...more]
If you’re a school which acts as your own admissions authority you are required to publish your admissions policy on the school website. The deadline is 1st May for September 2012 entries. According to a recent article in the TES, schools which fail to do so risk legal challenges from parents. The schools adjudicator said that half of secondaries and just over a quarter of primaries failed to do so [...more]
Post-Christmas enthusiasm resulted in many of our schools turning their attention to finishing off the content on their school websites and pressing the big green LAUNCH button. Here’s a selection: Ash Hill Primary, Bucks Bruern Abbey Independent, Oxforshire The Frank Barnes School for Deaf Children Primary, London Leeds East Academy Secondary, Leeds Nightingale Primary Primary, London North Birmingham Academy Secondary, Birmingham Our Lady of the Rosary Primary, Bristol Russells Hall [...more]
No, they’re just fair. But with so many companies charging thousands of pounds, it’s understandable you might think that’s the ‘going rate’. We recently worked with Kim Leffingwell a bursar from Ysgol Bryngwyn School. Here’s what she said; “We decided that since we wanted a dynamic site that was to be updated regularly that we needed to use a content management system (CMS). We considered doing this in-house using something [...more]
Are you making the most of your website? Have you taken a good hard look at your website recently? You probably invested a lot of time, if not money, in your website. In the same way you might wash your car and have it serviced, your website will also benefit from some basic, regular maintenance. In fact, the best school websites constantly evolve and change, just like the internet itself. [...more]
Farewell LGfL DigitalBrain School Websites Many schools used the LGfL DigitalBrain portal service to provide their school website: But,the portal service ceased on 31st July 2010. Read only access was provided until 31st December, but schools will no longer have access without incurring charges. You can read more on the LGfL website. What’s left is a bit of a mess. Some school websites are out there but can’t be edited. [...more]
Tips to make it easy to stay on top of your website when it snows “I’ll give you a winter prediction: It’s gonna be cold, it’s gonna be grey, and it’s gonna last you for the rest of your life.” Okay, that’s a worst case scenario. Hopefully winter won’t last as long as it did for Phil in Groundhog Day, but with last December the coldest on record, you probably [...more]