Arizona is a school choice state that uses Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) and Tax-Credit Scholarships to allow parents a choice of where their child receives an education. And school competition is fierce. In fact, Arizona has a higher...
10 Web Design Trends for School Websites
Website design trends come and go. But, schools don’t typically do a complete website redesign to reflect fads, simply because of the complexity and expense involved. However, some trends are not simply a fad and are moving from trend status to best practices status....
How to Have an ADA Compliant School Website
Making sure your school websites meets ADA compliance requirements is now a necessity—not just because the laws for this are now being enforced but because it is important that you eliminate any barriers to access to your school website and the information you...
Need a Rock Star School Webmaster?Learn what “ideal world” best practices are and how you can make that a reality for your school.
First, let’s talk about what a school webmaster looks like today and how it came to be that way. What it was (and often still is) In a majority of schools, the school webmaster coordinates the design of the website with a website service provider but seldom does...
Style Guide for Website Content Writing
Let’s eat grandpa. Let’s eat, Grandpa. This is one of my favorite examples of how punctuation can drastically affect the meaning of a sentence. An errant or missing comma has the potential to completely change its meaning. Its misuse as well as...
What Grade Does Your Public School Website Get?
If your school website were to get a grade, how would it fare? Does it come out on top in the various subject areas like communications, customer service, marketing, branding, telling your school’s stories, or highlighting your successes? Find out how to bring up...