Free In-Depth Chat
We like to take the time to understand your school and your web design requirements. When we chat, you can expect a lot of questions.
It’s essential that we have a good understanding of the school’s culture and values. We want to know what you’re trying to achieve with your new website and your planned timeframes for the build and launch of the new website.
The key requirements for most schools is to promote the school’s unique identity and make it easier and faster for relevant information to be accessible through the website.
For some educational institutions, the primary goal of the site might be to attract prospective parents and generate enrolment enquiries from your wider community. Other schools may want to reposition the school and want to use the new website to explain their history and the new evolving story.
To streamline the website planning process, it’s often helpful to look at some of the websites we have created for other schools. Think about the design, content and features you like, and also make a note of anything you don’t like or want to improve on.
Make a ‘wish-list’ of your requirements, noting the ‘Essential’ and ‘Desirable’ feature requirements. With this list and an idea of your preferred budget, we can let you know what is possible within your budget and give you a ball-park pricing estimate for the web design project.
Our meetings with you can often be done over the phone or on a video call – or over coffee if you prefer. We do lots of online meetings these days. We are very flexible with our working hours and will always try to fit in with you for suitable meeting times.
Provide Brief With Estimates
When we understand your requirements, we will come back to you with a detailed brief confirming exactly what you want, including pages, colours, photos, and features with estimates on how long each section will take. We provide all the costs involved upfront, so you know exactly how much the school website design project will cost with no surprises later.
Design Mockups
If you decide to work with us following the estimate, the next step is to start the design process. You will need to provide your branding guidelines and all essential design assets, like logos, photos and videos you want us to incorporate.
If the aim of your school website design is to update your visual presence, our graphic and logo design team can create a new look and feel that reflects your school’s vision.
If you don’t have high-quality images, our graphic designers will integrate strategic design elements to enhance existing imagery. Our designs will feature a layout that works well for students, parents, staff and the wider community and showcases your school’s facilities and spirit.
Our designers aim for a well-designed, clean site structure with easy navigation that presents all key information with prominent text and visuals, and highlights descriptive call to actions.
Our usual approach is to create a wireframe and design mockup for your homepage for both mobile and desktop. Then you review the designs and give us your feedback on any alterations you want.
After you approve the homepage designs, we create the designs for the internal pages and any pages with specific functionality.
Development & Walkthrough
Once all designs are signed off by you, we move on to developing your website. You will then have the chance to go through the entire site and provide feedback.
Once everything is exactly how you want it, we will walk you through the backend and show you how everything works.
Your Content
The content for your website needs to be added to create your web pages. You can supply and add all of the relevant content, or we can create and add your content for you. We’re happy either way, and we can do as much work or as little work on this as you wish.
If you are creating the content for your school website, then you will need to provide the content in a timely and organised manner so that the website project can be delivered and launched on time for you.
User Experience & Functionality Testing
After the site development is complete with all the content ready for launch, we will go through the site and test each page on desktop and mobile. We also check that all functionality is working correctly and troubleshoot any issues.
Hosting
Next is setting up your web hosting and ensuring that is working perfectly ready to go ‘live’. We provide high-level business-grade website hosting.
Go Live & Testing
We will make your website live and immediately do testing to ensure everything is working properly across all devices.
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