Thursday, June 12, 2008

day 9 readings

Designing School Web Sites to Deliver
&
How To Plan Your School's Web Site
By Robert Kennedy, About.com

These articles provide a lot of good tips for making an appealing and effective school website. One of the areas that teachers and school get a little complacent over is copyright laws. There is a good explanation in the first site. Schools also tend to have sites low on utility. It is as if schools design web site just to say that they have one. The site has to be a valuable resource to the community it serves. Along with this it needs to be functional and appealing. There is nothing worse than a confusing and uncooperative website. If I were to make a school website I would go to these resources and the linked articles as well.

1 comment:

shadley said...

There are several great articles on how to build a school website. I agree with Jonathan that most sites are not done very well and sometimes it is the first impression our parents have of the school.