3 Tips for Building a Great School Website

Category: School Websites

Published: October 22, 2010

Sharing your school news with the world means nothing more than customising  a web page template with your text and pictures and adding your logo, right? Well, yes – but to create a truly polished site there’s more to think about! Here’s a few tips to help get you creating.
  1. Try and limit the number of colours – you really don’t want pages that include all the colours of a rainbow! Carefully considered colour schemes create harmony between the various pages of your website.
  2. Make sure your site pages are quick to load by resizing your picture sizes before you upload them. This is especially relevant for users with slower connections.  Also, think about creating a simple navigation system.  Draw a content map out before you start creating your pages. Web users will return if the site saves them time by being easy to navigate.
  3. Don’t place random hyperlinks throughout your page text and make sure all hyperlinks are created from existing body text, rather than entering the full URL of the destination page.

School Website Success | Webanywhere Blog

Published: October 20, 2010

Another happy Webanywhere customer!

We’re delighted that the South Wales Evening Post has included a good news story from one of our customer schools. The article is reproduced below.

“A LLANELLI primary is on the button when it comes to its website. Dafen school’s website has recently reached a significant landmark, receiving 15,000 hits on its home page — with just over 40,000 pages read. This feat has been achieved since the site went live in March 2009.

School ICT co-ordinator Stuart Jacobs said: “The website has been a great success since it first went live and continues to be a valuable asset to the school.”

The website celebrates the successes of the school, as well as being used as a communication tool for parents and pupils.

The company that supports the website — Webanywhere — recently awarded the site four stars, out of a possible five.”

Visit Dafen Primary School’s website for further details.

Website Updates & Redesigns | Webanywhere Blog

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As you will have noticed we have now completely redesigned our main Webanywhere.co.uk interface to provide clearer signposting of our main content areas. Over the next few weeks we’ll also be launching new versions of our product-specific microsites for Learnanywhere, Student Jotter, School Jotter, JotterCMS and Payschool.

We’ll be adding blog posts detailing new product functionality as when it’s available so why not bookmark this page.

Website of the week

Published: October 11, 2010

From today we are starting a new weekly series called “Websites of the week”. Our intention will be to showcase our favourite new School Jotter website designs to inspire our visitors. To nominate your school’s website for inclusion, please send us an email.
This week’s winner, nominated by the Webanywhere team, is Moorhouse Primary School in Rochdale – well done to Moorhouse Primary!