{"id":261,"date":"2011-06-07T13:54:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T12:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenschoolsonline.co.uk\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2011-06-07T13:54:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T12:54:01","slug":"what-makes-a-good-school-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greenhouseschoolwebsites.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/06\/what-makes-a-good-school-website\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a good school website?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a question we get asked quite often. We like to think that all of our websites are &#8216;good&#8217;, but we recognise that it&#8217;s a subjective term.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are some simple guidelines that apply to every website:<\/p>\n<p>1. Great design \u2013 the design positions the school. A clear interface  helps parents use the site (assuming that\u2019s the primary audience)<\/p>\n<p>2. Good, targeted content \u2013 well written content that\u2019s clearly  signposted and if it can be broken down into digestible chunks, so much  the better<\/p>\n<p>3. Regularly updated \u2013 recent news items, school calendars, image galleries etc.<\/p>\n<p>Things to avoid include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>too much content, especially on the home page<\/li>\n<li>not enough photos (they\u2019re great for adding interest to a page)<\/li>\n<li>launching a site then never updating it<\/li>\n<li>\u2018over-design\u2019 i.e. something that\u2019s so involved it becomes very  difficult to update, detracts from the content and dates very quickly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read more about this topic on this blog post at <a href=\"http:\/\/eetechnogeek.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/06\/school-websites-crowd-sourcing-your-thoughts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Education Executive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a question we get asked quite often. We like to think that all of our websites are &#8216;good&#8217;, but we recognise that it&#8217;s a subjective term. However, there are some simple guidelines that&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenhouseschoolwebsites.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenhouseschoolwebsites.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenhouseschoolwebsites.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenhouseschoolwebsites.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenhouseschoolwebsites.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenhouseschoolwebsites.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenhouseschoolwebsites.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenhouseschoolwebsites.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenhouseschoolwebsites.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenhouseschoolwebsites.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}