School Website Design Case Study: Kenmore State High School
Posted in Case Studies, Web Design on July 10th, 2010 by Talita

Kenmore State High School
| Kenmore State High School is one of Brisbane’s highest achieving public schools. It is located in the leafy suburb of Kenmore in Brisbane’s south-west corridor. |
| Reach: |
Australia |
| Launch Date: |
March 2010 |
| Completed to budget: |
Yes |
| Completed to time-lines: |
Yes |
| Web Address: |
www.kenmoreshs.eq.edu.au/ |
| Tasks: |
Joomla School Website Development |
| Technology: |
PHP, MySql, XHTML/CSS |
| Kenmore State High School were seeking a fresh look and feel for their website and a comprehensive content management system that would allow them to update their content quickly and easily.
The new website design features:
- A clean and engaging look and feel
- A large featured image slideshow with beautiful images – professional imagery makes all the difference on the web!
- An interesting background effect featuring gradients and folds to bring the website to life and add a 3-dimensional effect
- Lots of clean white space for text areas
- A fixed width content area to fit a 1024×768 screen resultion which is currently the most common screen resolution.
- 3 level dropdown and flyout menus to provide the easiest possible access to relevant pages
- Breadcrumbs to show visitors where they are within the site structure. (i.e. You are here: …) This is a very important usability feature particularly in websites with a large and complicated content structure.
- A comprehensive search function that can be used to find the information your are looking for quickly – another important usability feature of large sites
- A cute favicon composed of elements of the school logo
The Joomla backend administration system allows administrators to easily:
- Edit content across the full website
- Upload documents to relevant pages – newsletters, forms etc
- Maintain events in the school calendar
- Maintain class time tables and supporting documentation
Please contact us if you are interested in a cms or intranet – we specialise in custom browser software development & ecommerce.
Other usability / seo features:
- The logo links back to the home page (good for usability)
- Full css based design and layout (good for seo)
- All home page links point to the full url http://www.kenmoreshs.eq.edu.au/ rather than index.php to avoid link popularity dilution
- Unique title tags (good for seo)
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