What do you REALLY need in a school website? This is actually a very important question. Different schools have different needs, so it is worth taking a few moments to think about your answer. Your response should depend on your audience, which is the parents of your...
20 Tacky School Website Practices Schools Should Avoid
If we provided the following list to most other industries, it would be old news. I’m pretty sure the whole article would get a response like, “duh!” from their readers. But, because schools and many educational institutions have limited communications budgets and the...
Why Your IT Department Should NOT Manage Your School Communications
No other industry would even consider asking their technology department to manage their communications, public relations, or marketing strategies. These two areas of expertise require radically different skillsets. It would be like asking a prima ballerina to conduct...
Whitespace & Readability for an Effective School Website
The blank canvas. The empty page. We want to fill print media with ink the same way we fill silence with words. It makes us uncomfortable, all that nothingness. If you are a customer, you feel cheated that you paid for, what exactly? Effective use of whitespace Many...
How to Get a School Website Redesign That Pays for Itself
While a school website redesign can feel like a Herculean task, not worth the time or the money, keep in mind that your website is your most important marketing and communications tool. It will have the highest return on investment of any of your marketing...