ukschoolsonline.net School Website Features
As well as providing a valuable service to the school community and wider public, a website is good way to 'market' the school and make its presence more widely known. It is essential that the website be accessible to a broad range of internet users, and allow for variance in browser technologies. The school's website must also be sensitive to the needs of internet users with visual and motor disabilities.
Automation of accessibility requirements is amongst the many features available when using ukschoolsonline.net to author and publish your school's website:
| Features | Description | |
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| Authoring | ||
| Rich Content Text Editor |
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No web design experience is necessary, and no special software needs to be installed. Website content is authored using Internet Explorer 6 or 7 on a Windows PC. There is a total separation of content from presentation, guaranteeing a consistent style for the whole site. |
| High Quality Professional Web Designs |
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A variety of school website templates and colour schemes are available to select from and apply to your school's website, at any time. |
| Point and Click Management |
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The structure of the school's website is organised by using an intuitive interface that lets the user move and re-order web pages as required. |
| Automated Content |
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Website navigation and sitemap generation is completely automated. Web pages can be configured to become effective and then expire at specified dates. An RSS feed is generated automatically for news and events items. |
| Content Indexing |
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All content is indexed to facilitate site-level searching. |
| Multiple Users |
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Multiple application users can author content concurrently. |
| Online Help |
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Help for application users is available in the form of short movie clips - no need to read thru pages of manuals. A feedback mechanism is available for support issues. |
| Accessibility | ||
| Cross Browser Support |
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The school's website will render consistently across many of today's popular internet browsers, including Internet Explorer and Firefox. |
| Website Accessibility |
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All web pages are rendered as valid XHTML, and nearly all of the web pages will automatically meet WCAG priority 1 and be printer friendly. |
| Keyboard Navigation |
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Website navigation using the keyboard is made easier, and reliance upon the mouse is not necessary. |
| Text Readability |
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The size of text on the website's pages can be changed using the options available in the user's browser. |
| Website Hosting | ||
| Internet Domain Names |
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Website hosting is included in the service offered by ukschoolsonline.net. The school's
internet address will be a sub-domain of uksol.net, i.e. http://schoolname.uksol.net. Alternatively, if your school already has a domain name, just have it re-direct to the url we provide. |
| Generous Upload Space |
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There is 15MB of unmanaged upload space, and 1MB of managed upload space available for including images and documents (and other files) as part of the school's website. |
| Generous Website Size |
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The school's website can comprise up to 50 managed web pages. |
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