We are committed to helping schools grow in the 21srt century. Internet is a critical marketing tool. Your school’s website is where visitors form first impression about your school. Your school website should provide a summary of school achievements and merits. In addition, it should have intuitive navigation structure, visual depth and elegant style.
At American Data Technology, Inc. our professional designers strive to convey unique personality, strengths the core value of your school. We take pride in our creative talent and technical expertise. In the end it is you –the client that benefits.
Benefits of School Website Design
- Establish an effective online presence for your school by having a professionally designed custom website.
- Communicate effectively between parents, teachers and students by using tools such as posting lesson plans online, calendars, Feedback forms etc.
- Create effective communication between different schools in a given district. Information can be shared between administrators of individual schools.
- Create user friendly administrative interface for internal communication for faculty and staff
- Limit access to confidential information by creating password protected pages
- Attract more students, teachers and alumni through a professional website
- Set up secure on line forms for registration collection of tuition (where applicable).
Building a creative and lasting website for schools is a multi dimensional project – one that needs to be planned and executed within timelines set and budgets. You as a client are kept informed about progess of school website project and your feed back is sought at regular intervals so that the end result matches your vision of your school website.
Need-Assessment
In order to create a customized website that portrays your school mission. Our professional web designer need to learn more about your school. For example, the breadth of your courses and curriculum offerings, variety of extracurricular activities, community outreach programs etc.
We have a brief questionnaire that asks your vision for school website, what web tools you are looking for.
Building a theme
All websites for schools have a specific theme. Theme can include site navigation structure, specific colors and so on. In order to have a unified appearance, it is important for a district website’s theme to be consistent with those individual school campuses.
Design layout
Once we have a good grasp of your vision for your school website, the nature of your school and its core value we are ready to start building the website. This stage involves building design concepts, intuitive navigational structure, home page and interior pages, placing of quotes, photographs etc.
We will present you with few different design concepts that will have visual depth and creative elements to enhance your school website.
Content management
More and more schools are using content management web sites. With tight educational budgets and constraints this can be a huge savings for schools. With content management system, it is easy to update information instead of hiring a full time dedicated web master to maintain website.
For example, message from school principal may need to be updated on regular basis.
Web tools
We can incorporate following tools on school websites. Web tools to enhance the digital learning platform of your school:
Comprehensive online forms for students and faculty members such as vacation requests, expense reports etc.
Secure students registration and collection of tuition.
Portal that can display announcements, newsletters, school wide events.
Teacher’s pages that provide ability for teachers to add variety of content such as homework assignments, calendars, documents and multimedia content.
Slide show of photographs such as annual summer picnic at school.
Tools for parents and teachers communications