| Content Management
System Case Study - Rayleigh
Primary School
Client Profile
Rayleigh Primary School, its children and adults, is an extension
of the community it serves. The school was establish in 1899 and
has an enviable reputation. The head teacher, Mr Malcolm, and his
staff found that their website was difficult to update and did not
reflect the schools ethos of including the parents and community
in the learning experience.
Requirements
The new website needed to be simple in design and must be editable
by the office staff, teachers and students.
Solution
Our solution was to develop a website template that was compatible
with Macromedia Contribute website editing software and then provide
training to teachers and staff.
Basing the content management system on Macromedia Contribute,
allows the school website administrator to control who can change
what on the website. Each person is issued a 'Key' creating an internal
security system to control who can change what on the website. Users
can change and create new pages, but cannot edit the pages of other
users.
The built in photo optimisation tool is incredibly powerful. Restricting
size and weight of each image so they are fast to download and then
enabling the user to position the image anywhere within the website.
Each new page that is created is based on the website template
and therefore retains the same look and feel as all other pages
with the main website navigation built in. And of course there is
no need to employ a website developer to expand the website so it
will grow very quickly.
Training progressed very quickly as the system uses the intuitive
nature of popular programs such as Microsoft Word. Applying text
styles, adding images, creating tables and positioning pages elements
becomes second nature very quickly.
Conclusion
This system allows schools and businesses to create information
rich websites quickly and economically.
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this client.
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