Top 10 Tips For Building Your New School Website

Our Top Ten Tips are:

• Start one small manageable area and then build gradually.
• Keep it simple and accessible for all users, including those with special needs — see what you can achieve without being over-ambitious.
• Use the functions that are unique to the web to make your pages easier to navigate and interesting to visitors — hyperlinks, graphics and small animations if they’re appropriate.
• Remember your audience.
• Enlist the help of others — children can take digital photos, for example, and write material for their own pages.
• Invite feedback on how others view your offerings.
• Review and update the site constantly — to ensure that you see your site as others see it.
• Remember issues such as copyright, plagiarism, child safety and privacy.
• Appoint a webkeeper to coordinate the efforts of everyone in the school and oversee the site’s content.