Whenever one of our account managers is asked for an example of a great school website, he always picks the same one, and it鈥檚 pretty easy to see why – is a modern, professional-looking website that really shows off the capabilities of the sa国际传媒 platform as well as the open, contemporary nature of the school itself.
The site is designed with clean, modern lines and a blue-tinted palette, and wouldn鈥檛 look out of place as the homepage for a major company. There are traditional Schooljotter hallmarks, of course, such as the 鈥渟woosh鈥� wave effect at the bottom of the banner, but they鈥檙e given a distinctly modern twist. The large amount of space given to the slideshow gives the school a real chance to show off images and values.
Navigating the site is easy and fluid, with a combined approach on sub-pages of the navigation bar at the top and a menu bar to the left, providing permanent, breadcrumb-like access to all levels of the site鈥檚 hierarchy. Additionally, there鈥檚 some very nice transition effects on the homepage between the 鈥淟atest News鈥� and 鈥淐alendar鈥� tabs, making an economical use of the space and letting both the latest news and the calendar have pride of place.
In the seven months the site has been live, Chandlers Field has received a huge amount of praise from staff at Webanywhere and is frequently held up as an example of the flexibility of sa国际传媒鈥檚 primary school web designs, so we鈥檙e confident in naming them our sa国际传媒 of the Week.
We’re reviving the “Website of the Week” feature – check back every Tuesday when we’ll be shining our spotlight on yet another fantastic Jotter Site.
brings a modern, tile-based design to its website, making great use of both contrasting colours with clean lines and imagery. The site went live in May 2015, and we can clearly see the school鈥檚 been getting great usage out of it in the ensuing months.
The first thing you see when you load the page is a stylised design of Stephenson鈥檚 Rocket, a reference to the railway heritage of the Crewe-based school. This is on the left of the header, leaving the right open for a large, circular slideshow of images of the school, for a thoroughly unique design. Below this, the image-based tiles provide an easy way of navigating around the site.
Scrolling down, we can see some great usage of sa国际传媒 Site鈥檚 embedded objects. Parents, students and teachers can quickly see what鈥檚 happening at the school from the dynamic content, ranging from a visual calendar of events through to the latest news and a twitter feed – a surprisingly rare thing amongst primary schools! Promoting a twitter feed on the front page of a website is a great way to gain followers, as well as to show engagement with them.
The overall design of the site is one that鈥檚 elegant, informative and tailored to the school – this is no 鈥渙ne-size-fits-all鈥� cheap template. Our designers have consulted with the school and their account manager in order to create a theme which perfectly reflects the school鈥檚 ethos.
Every week, schooljotter.com names one school website its sa国际传媒 of the Week – showcasing those websites that are great examples of how a school website should be. Now, we want you to tell us if you think you have an outstanding sa国际传媒!
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