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We want to and will make it easy for schools to keep their staff, pupils, parents, partners, other stake-holders and wider community informed, updated and engaged.
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It's so easy even 7 year old children can do it. If you are able to move a mouse, click a few buttons and string a few sentences together you can maintain a cutting edge site.
We'll give you all the training you'll need, support you on the phone or with email, all to make sure you get the best out of your investment.
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Superb content management and blog software. Excellent Google optimisation.
An email to weblog interface, making updating your school blog a doddle.
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Now, by merely typing in the text you can do it too!
It's so easy even 7 year old children can do it. If you are able to move a mouse, click a few buttons and string a few sentences together you can maintain a cutting edge site.
We'll give you all the training you'll need, support you on the phone or with email, all to make sure you get the best out of your investment.
Our killer features are:
Superb content management and blog software. Excellent Google optimisation.
An email to weblog interface, making updating your school blog a doddle.
Top draw support and feedback.
Try a demo or build your
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Archive page for Thursday, 07 February 2008
Th, Feb 7, 2008Sack your web designer!
I see far too many schools, mainly secondaries and 'colleges' who employ a full time web designer. Normally, these are the most vicious replies I receive from my marketing emails.
Web designers look at our sites, run by Heads, teachers, children, secretaries. Look at their job description, creating HTML and FTP'ing. Look at the management issues of their sites. Look at the complexity, that no one else wants to understand, that no one else would dare presume to understand, and they see that the writing is on the wall for web designers and their bottleneck silos and processes.
Websites have been commoditised—for a long time. And it's only the LAs and school boards that employ these people that haven't yet caught up.
Paying £12,000 to £24,000 plus all the software and hardware, servers in the main, is not sustainable.
It's like employing your own paper-maker in school. Then, paying them to write on it. Check the monks below...
Do it yourself, it's a zillion times more empowering bringing you, the Head, the teacher nose-to-nose with your pupils and you'll save a ton of money.
Look at the schools here. See that they're getting a huge amount of traffic and excellent feedback and they're run by staff and children who don't care about the how, just the what.
How you have a website isn't important, it's the what's on it that is vital.
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Web designers look at our sites, run by Heads, teachers, children, secretaries. Look at their job description, creating HTML and FTP'ing. Look at the management issues of their sites. Look at the complexity, that no one else wants to understand, that no one else would dare presume to understand, and they see that the writing is on the wall for web designers and their bottleneck silos and processes.
Websites have been commoditised—for a long time. And it's only the LAs and school boards that employ these people that haven't yet caught up.
Paying £12,000 to £24,000 plus all the software and hardware, servers in the main, is not sustainable.
It's like employing your own paper-maker in school. Then, paying them to write on it. Check the monks below...
Do it yourself, it's a zillion times more empowering bringing you, the Head, the teacher nose-to-nose with your pupils and you'll save a ton of money.
Look at the schools here. See that they're getting a huge amount of traffic and excellent feedback and they're run by staff and children who don't care about the how, just the what.
How you have a website isn't important, it's the what's on it that is vital.
