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Custom School Website Design & Development
Your website and digital communications have never been more important, but our experts are up to the challenge. We help schools like yours to build beautiful websites that stand out while streamlining communications and saving time. Along with improving the enrolment experience, we make it easy for parents to communicate with your school.
A strong online presence is critical to your school’s success, and the best way to stand out is with a multi-touch, cross channel approach. Our school website design and marketing services will deliver the results you’re after.
School web design that set you up for success
School web design involves several key areas that are essential for creating an effective and engaging website tailored to the needs of students, parents, and staff. Here are four key areas of school web design:
A school website should have clear and intuitive navigation to help visitors easily find the information they need. Well-organised menus, dropdowns, and a search function enable users to access specific pages, such as academic programs, admissions, calendars, and contact information, with ease.
With the increasing use of mobile devices, a school website must be responsive and mobile-friendly. This ensures that parents, students, and staff can access the website and its content conveniently on various devices, such as smartphones and tablets.
School websites should adhere to accessibility guidelines, ensuring that all users, including those with disabilities, can access and use the website effectively. Compliance with accessibility standards, such as WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines), is crucial for providing an inclusive online experience.
Engaging content, including high-quality images, videos, and interactive elements, can make the school website more appealing and informative. Showcasing student activities, achievements, and events through multimedia can foster a sense of community and pride among stakeholders.
Transform Your School's Online Presence Today!
Capture the attention of students, parents, and the entire school community with a cutting-edge website tailored to your educational institution. Our expert school web design services blend creativity, functionality, and accessibility to create an engaging digital hub that showcases your school's excellence.
Why Choose Us for your School Website Design?
Our school websites combine compelling designs with persuasive content and interactive features to communicate your school's unique values and encourage parents to contact you for new enrolments. We can also help you gain more positive reviews with our reputation marketing services.
Fast loading School Websites
By avoiding bloated code or unnecessary plugins, your website can run much faster. Faster loading websites can also rank higher on Google too!
Great for SEO and digital marketing
We build school websites that are fully optimised with SEO-friendly site structures, minimal plugins and lean code. This provides the perfect foundation for better Google rankings and free traffic.
Fully customisable & Unique Design
Your business is unique, so why settle for cookie-cutter website templates? Stand out from the competition with a custom school website design that’s memorable, reflects your brand and is easily customised.
Easy-to-Use Content Management System
We design websites that generate high conversions and attract more target users through high-impact design and SEO. We focus on combining technical SEO, buyer persona research and UX expertise to craft a website specifically designed to get results for your school.
Our School Web Design Process
Families have choices, meaning it’s important to stand out. It’s the experience you provide that sets your school apart from the rest. We’ll help you differentiate yourself from the competition to drive enrolments, increase yield and deliver the best ROI for your school.
No matter what kind of school you run, one thing is for sure – your website must be built on a strong foundation. We follow a structured approach to your school web design project.
Discovery and Planning:
- Understand the school’s goals and objectives for the website design.
- Conduct research to gather insights into the target audience and their needs.
- Determine the website’s content structure, including pages and sections.
Design and Wireframing:
- Create wireframes that outline the layout and structure of each webpage.
- Design the website’s visual elements, including the color scheme, typography, and graphics.
- Ensure that the design reflects the school’s branding and identity.
Content Creation and Gathering:
- Collaborate with the school staff to gather content, such as information about programs, faculty, and events.
- Develop engaging and informative content that aligns with the school’s messaging.
Development and Implementation:
- Build the website using a content management system (CMS) like WordPress web design or Drupal web design, which allows easy updates and maintenance.
- Ensure the website is responsive and mobile-friendly for optimal viewing on different devices.
- Integrate necessary functionalities, such as forms, calendars, and multimedia elements.
Accessibility and Compliance:
- Ensure the website adheres to accessibility guidelines, making it usable for individuals with disabilities.
- Comply with relevant data protection and privacy regulations, particularly for handling student information.
Testing and Quality Assurance:
- Conduct thorough testing to check for bugs, broken links, and inconsistencies.
- Test the website on various browsers and devices to ensure compatibility.
Launch and Deployment:
- Plan the website launch and communicate the launch date to the school community.
- Deploy the website on the school’s chosen hosting platform.
Transform Your School's Online Presence Today!
Capture the attention of students, parents, and the entire school community with a cutting-edge website tailored to your educational institution. Our expert school web design services blend creativity, functionality, and accessibility to create an engaging digital hub that showcases your school's excellence.
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I have been using ZOFELA for just over a year now, they handle all of my advertising from SEO, Google Ads & Social media. I was very unsure of any company in this industry as there is a lot on the line when you spend money advertising, but ZOFELA have made a lot happen for my business so I can't be happier - they have built up trust with me and will handle all of my advertising for years to come - highly recommend.
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Whether it’s launching a new site, re-imagining an existing one or launching a marketing campaign, ZOFELA wants to help bring your idea to life.
FAQs
WordPress is a popular content management system (CMS) that you can use to power your school website on your own hosting plan. WordPress makes creating a blog, landing page, online store, forum or other website possible for users around the world.
Our school web design packages usually range from $8000 to $40000. However, it really depends on what kind of school web design you need. We recently wrote a full guide on how much it costs for a website to give you an idea of the different options available.
The process we use to build your website takes a certain amount of time and a lot of planning and research. Unlike other web design agencies, we DON’T use templates. We build your website from scratch, which means you get a unique design tailored to your business.
It takes approximately 12-15 weeks to build a website from start to finish, providing we have all the information from you. Our full school web design process is quite detailed and involves brand strategy, UX/UI planning, persona development, wireframe and prototype development, competitor research, content architecture planning, keyword research and full site build. Generally speaking, the website will only take a long time if we’re still waiting for you to provide text and images.
It really depends on what type of website you want. We’ll be able to discuss this on our discovery call before we start working together. Depending on which package we agree on, we could need:
- Images of you and your team
- Images of your school
- Content draft for the services you provide e.g. text, PDFs etc. We make them beautiful and SEO friendly.
- Any videos you would like added to the website
- Login details to your existing website if it’s a redesign
- Google Analytics details if you have any
Some of this might already be on the existing website, in which case it can be transferred over to the new site.
Yes, absolutely! You will be able to take control of your website and manage it on your own. Upon completion of our web designs for schools, we provide resources to assist in editing your own content. We also provide you with a training session to help get you on your way.
Yes, our web design agency can also help you with hosting. Website hosting is the term used to describe the storage of your website files, and it’s a crucial element of any website. We have a range of different hosting options available depending on the needs of your website.
The difficulty level of updating an already existing school web design depends on what changes are required. If the changes are complex, it may take time to deliver, while minor changes can usually be delivered sooner. At ZOFELA, we will have a discussion with you to understand your requirements and provide an estimate of how long the web design process will take before proceeding with the necessary steps.
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