Your school website matters.
Does yours make the grade?

Your school website should be the cornerstone of your communications and marketing activities.

Is yours:

helping you fill all your places for every academic year?
reducing the number of daily calls your school office receives?
providing parents with easy access to all the information they need?
complying with OFSTED’s requirements?
as easy to use on a smartphone as it is a desktop computer?
accurately reflecting daily life and the experiences you are providing your pupils?

We work with a number of schools so understand all the things your school website needs to be. And we can help make it happen for you.

Woodmancote School

"The service we received has been exemplary. A totally comprehensive and coherent rebranding and website delivery has been achieved."

There are a number of signs that a school website requires redeveloping.

Do any of these sound familiar?

Time consuming to manage

Common problem:

Managing and keeping content up to date is time-consuming. Or even worse, needs to be done by a web developer.

The solution:

Modern school websites should be built around a trusted Content Management System enabling ease of adding and managing content.

Impossible to use on a smartphone or tablet

Common problem:

Your school website is difficult to use on smartphones and tablets. Leaving visitors unable to find what they are looking for and with a negative impression of your school.

The solution:

Ensure your new website is dynamically designed. This means the structure and content automatically reorganises itself, based upon the device the web visitor is using.

Built using Flash

Common problem:

The site is built in, or uses, Flash to deliver content or media. Which means it doesn't work across many smartphone and tablet devices, or requires users to install extensions within their web browser.

The solution:

Latest coding structures and practices allow for a wide variety of functionality, features and content delivery, all of which are viewable across all types of device. Making Flash redundant.

Difficult to navigate

Common problem:

Visitors have difficultly finding what they are looking for quickly and easily. And content is focused solely on providing existing parents with relevant information.

The solution:

A full review of the different audience groups that visit your site, what they are looking for, and how to best structure your website are key at the start of any new website development. Alongside ensuring all content that meets OFSTED requirments is included.

It's old!

Common problem:

Your website hasn't been developed for a number of years and lags behind other local schools - in appearance and ease of use. Putting you at a disadvantage to your competition.

The solution:

Websites often require redevelopment every 3 - 4 years. This ensures they are suitably up to date aesthetically, from a usability point of view, and in respect to the backend code that makes your school website tick.

Not search engine friendly

Common problem:

It doesn't rank highly in online search engine results. Resulting in less effective marketing of your school and potentially fewer prospective parent enquiries.

The solution:

There are many factors that affect where your website ranks in search results - being mobile friendly, having well structured navigation and content, refined coding...the list is lengthy. Investing in a modern, well planned and built website will go a long way to helping.

It's slow

Common problem:

The time it takes for pages within your website to load is becoming longer and longer. Leading to visitors becoming frustrated and often leaving your website.

The solution:

Investing in a new website ensures the coding and infrastructure that runs it is up to date with the technologies visitors are using to view your website. Checking your website hosting provision is up to date is also key.

Poorly reflects your brand

Common problem:

Your school's been rebranded yet the existing website's simply had the new logo added. Creating a poor impression of the new branding and a discord between 'old' and 'new'.

The solution:

Your website should be a central point for your school's brand and communication. If you've invested time in rebranding, part of that process must be a redevelopment of your school website.

Only one person knows how it works

Common problem:

It was built in-house and relies on the coding skills of a member of staff to manage it. Which leaves you exposed should that individual leave your organisation.

The solution:

Research trusted local website design providers. Meet a few. Talk with them about your requirements and ambitions. Then set about the exciting journey of developing a new website.

Poor levels of security

Common problem:

It fails to incorporate up to date security features, leaving access and data vulnerable.

The solution:

Security is required in many ways. Such as daily website backups, secure access to your CMS, and protecting data submitted via contact forms via SSL Certificates. Your website provider should implement the necessary measures you need.

Our school website design services incorporate all the necessary solutions mentioned above.
We work closely with each of our clients, guaranteeing a tailored solution that's personally delivered.

For every one of the school websites we deliver, we follow a proven process.

Top qualities: Personable, High Integrity, Creative.

"Down The Line helped in a major rebranding exercise at The Abbey School. They showed clear strategic thinking, alongside imaginative and creative execution in the development of our prospectus and website."
The Abbey School, Reading.

We offer a range of branding and design services for schools

Some of our recent projects...

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Abbey School

March 15, 2016

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Abbey School

March 15, 2016
Woodmancote School

March 14, 2016

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Woodmancote School

March 14, 2016
Grangefield School

March 14, 2016

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Grangefield School

March 14, 2016
Auden Theatre

March 14, 2016

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Auden Theatre

March 14, 2016

Your school website matters.
Does yours make the grade?

Your school website should be the cornerstone of your communications and marketing activities.

No Widgets

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We offer a range of branding and design services for schools

School Solutions - Carousel

Abbey School

Abbey School

Woodmancote School

Woodmancote School

Grangefield School

Grangefield School

Auden Theatre

Auden Theatre

Your school website matters. Does yours make the grade?

Your school website should be the cornerstone of your communications and marketing activities.

No Widgets

Want to know more?

Find out more about our website solutions

Find out more about our email marketing solutions

Find out more about our print design solutions

Find out more about our logo design packages

Find out more about our start-up packages

Find out more about our SME packages

Find out more about our schools packages

Organise a call back for a time that suits you

Pop your details below to receive our latest newsletter offer…

Click here to download our FREE School Website Design Checklist

We offer a range of branding and design services for schools

School Solutions - Carousel

Abbey School

Abbey School

Woodmancote School

Woodmancote School

Grangefield School

Grangefield School

Auden Theatre

Auden Theatre

Your school website matters.
Does yours make the grade?