Frequently Asked Questions

Website management includes:

• Following a style guide to maintain consistency across your school brand.
• Maintaining website best practices with regard to navigation, visual layout, and content organization.
• Ensuring website accessibility and preserving ADA compliance.
• Verifying correct spelling, grammar, and tone.
• Checking for broken links, outdated documents, and accurate school and staff information.
• Worry-free website hosting and server management.

Our professional website management team can do it all for you. School Webmasters makes the website management process easy and affordable.

A Content Management System (CMS) is software or a platform that allows people who are unfamiliar with coding to create and manage digital website content. With a CMS, anyone can make changes and add content to your website.

Website management is a strategic system that involves website design and management, copywriting, public relations, website accessibility, quality control, and branding.

School Webmasters handles all requested updates and changes. We send out reminders to designated staff members to gather information and content that will keep your site up-to-date.

The best part of a School Webmaster’s website is that there is no training! With no complicated system to learn, updating your website is easier than sending an email.

Yes, with School Webmasters websites, your staff can keep them updated, OR we can do all the work for you very affordably so your staff can spend their time doing the job they were hired to do—educating students.

In some cases, yes. Contact Jim for more information.

We offer affordable website development options: basic templates, customized templates, and fully custom website designs. You can even pay for your school district website design over three years if needed.

Typically, a new website design will take between five and eight weeks.

Of course, it depends on the level of site complexity.

Our goal is to make the website design process easy for you.

Your project coordinator will meet with you to discuss your design preferences. Then, typically, your current website, student handbook, and staff contact list are enough to help us build you an amazing new website.

Yes. ADA compliant websites are not only inclusive to everyone in your community, regardless of ability, but website accessibility is also the law for most schools.

School marketing strategies include keeping your website updated with news and stories, social media management, using school public relations to your advantage, and utilizing inbound and content marketing.

The best way to use your school website to reach your communication goals is to provide outstanding customer service. Use your website to include

• board agendas;
• links to school report cards;
• vendor information;
• contacts;
• important job announcements and openings;
• and much more.

For more help:

• Tell us what your communication goals are, and we’ll send you a strategic communication plan to help you meet those goals with your website.
• Subscribe to our blog. We share lots of practical advice for improving school communication.

School and district websites serve different audiences. Here are just a few of the differences between school websites and district websites:

School Websites

• Parents
• Students
• Community members
• Prospective parents
• Those interested in daily school activities and events
  • Athletics
  • Arts
  • Academics
  • Social activities

District Websites

Visitors to the district sites usually include

• Community members
• The media
• Prospective families

In our experience, parents of current students, rarely access the district website. And students almost never do.

It’s easy. Just go to portal.schoolwebmasters.com/tickets and send the information!