These are just some suggestions.
- Clear Organization: A site should be organized in a way that visitors can easily navigate through it. Dividing the site into five or six major sections, and providing links to each of these sections at the bottom of each page, is a good method (An example "storyboard" for a school webpage and further description is provided in Section 3: Web Authoring Concepts.) Graphical icons can be used to unify the pages and help visitors get around your pages.
- Quick Navigation: Visitors should be able to link to all pages on your site with a few mouse clicks: if they have to "dig" through four or five pages to reach a page, they probably won't visit it.
- A Reason to Return: Information like calendars of events that are regularly updated, a selected student "site of the week," listings of student homework, or other unique offerings that change periodically. Publishing student work is a guarantee that proud parents will be visiting your site!
- Fast Loading Time: Sites with small image sizes make for fast loading on a web browser. This is especially important on the homepage. If it takes too long for a page to load, visitors are not likely to wait and see your great graphics. Provide "thumbnails" for larger images.
- Links to Relevant Resources: Can students and parents find out what "Accelerated Reader" books your school has tests for on your website? Can they link to research sites, or sites related to studies they are doing in class from your site? These additions can greatly enhance the utility of your school webpage.
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