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School Website Design Case Study: Kenmore State High School

Posted in Case Studies, Web Design on July 10th, 2010 by Talita

Narellan Pools Web Design

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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