Matthew D Morgan
Sandbach School Sixth Form Website Update
www.matthewdmorgan.com/2011/09/sandbach-school-sixth-form...
Over the last week I've been working on the redesign and update of the Sandbach School's Sixth Form Website. The site is still a long way off being finished but I am very happy with the rapid progress that I have made in the last week. The groundwork for the site was done by a colleague who due to a change in position could no longer maintain the site. The Sixth Form Open Afternoon was scheduled for the Wednesday just gone and so SMT asked if I'd step in and do what I could prior to this to ensure that all the relevant information that potential students might require was accessible. The above pictures show how the site developed over 7 days.
What I've Done
Lucky for me the new school sites are built on Wordpress so I could hit the ground running. I stripped the website back to the very basics and updated some of the layout adding the Blueprint CSS Framework to simplify making amendments later on. With a now more semantic layout I could begin work on the look of the site.
The site has been kept simple using the colour scheme that my colleague had already put in place and the layout was built to draw the eye to the most important information on each page. Custom Fields, Meta Boxes and Custom Post Types were also set up to give control over where certain information appeared. Like on the schools main site I also added a drop down toolbar with the addition that on mine using a built in form the user can log directly into the schools online learning system.
The site is still evolving so any comments or suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.
Sandbach School Sixth Form Website Update
www.matthewdmorgan.com/2011/09/sandbach-school-sixth-form...
Over the last week I've been working on the redesign and update of the Sandbach School's Sixth Form Website. The site is still a long way off being finished but I am very happy with the rapid progress that I have made in the last week. The groundwork for the site was done by a colleague who due to a change in position could no longer maintain the site. The Sixth Form Open Afternoon was scheduled for the Wednesday just gone and so SMT asked if I'd step in and do what I could prior to this to ensure that all the relevant information that potential students might require was accessible. The above pictures show how the site developed over 7 days.
What I've Done
Lucky for me the new school sites are built on Wordpress so I could hit the ground running. I stripped the website back to the very basics and updated some of the layout adding the Blueprint CSS Framework to simplify making amendments later on. With a now more semantic layout I could begin work on the look of the site.
The site has been kept simple using the colour scheme that my colleague had already put in place and the layout was built to draw the eye to the most important information on each page. Custom Fields, Meta Boxes and Custom Post Types were also set up to give control over where certain information appeared. Like on the schools main site I also added a drop down toolbar with the addition that on mine using a built in form the user can log directly into the schools online learning system.
The site is still evolving so any comments or suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.