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Now, by merely typing in the text you can do it too!
It's so easy even 7 year old children can do it. If you are able to move a mouse, click a few buttons and string a few sentences together you can maintain a cutting edge site.
We'll give you all the training you'll need, support you on the phone or with email, all to make sure you get the best out of your investment.
Our killer features are:
Superb content management and blog software. Excellent Google optimisation.
An email to weblog interface, making updating your school blog a doddle.
Top draw support and feedback.
Try a demo or build your
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school website yourself. What will you write today's school news to be?Archive page for Tuesday, 18 September 2007
Tu, Sep 18, 2007FAQs or 'more information'
I find that I'm constantly writing the same sort of thing, when I'm asked for more information about our services. So, here, I hope, is the definitive reply.
We don't have a prospectus that we could put into the post. I like to keep costs down. I've looked at your school roll, we base our costs on the size of the school, since this is more equitous. Following are example costs:
You can read more about the above costs.
You can read what customers say on the BECTA site.
We've also a suite of lesson plans. I'd love to see a roving 10 year old reporter, prowling the play ground, note book and camera in hand. Here's some other 10 year old's work (notice the number of comments. Children react strongly to other children's writing.)
If you want to see how it all works here's a section of how tos.
You'll get a site that's as big as you want, no limits on pages, images nor files. We design the graphics from your instructions and images, logos and school colours. We add pages from your existing site or prospectus (you can add these but it's just nicer for us to do this for you, for you to have such pages completed from the get-go). These pages are editable at any time from any location: school, home, Spain, up a mountain from your mobile phone—seriously. Here's the Head, at Northern Ireland school Donemana doing it via the web interface from Prague.
Also included is the telephone, email and text support, mentoring, monitoring, maintenance and training. Training is as you'd expect, very easy. 10 minutes over the phone, and you've got it licked. You can have as many 10 minute sessions as you want. In short you get everything you could possibly need.
Once the site is up and running you add content to it yourself. And this is easy! It has to be or we wouldn't do it. Hit a button, type away, hit another button. I have my 8 year old daughter doing it and some Heads that can hardly move a mouse too. Updating the front page is a joy. Everything is automatic, new stuff at the top, old stuff falls off into the archives. Updating can get quite addictive. As you see traffic increase, visitors coming from other sites, people getting in contact with you, you'll realise the power of speaking directly.
Once you've posted a few items though the web interface, I'll talk you through the email interface. Essentially, you type your news, add your pictures as attachments, and send. That's about it.
Jemma the nursery nurse at Bodnant does it in 3 or 4 minutes. She doesn't hang about, doesn't spend much time on the niceties.
Stuart, the Deputy Head, at Walsallwood does it from his phone, possibly from up a tree on his school trip to Wales.
Tracy and Sue in Tameside do it too, in minutes.
Rob in Coventry... Look at the times he posted (the greyed out text at the foot of each posting). Apparently it took less than 8 minutes to post 3 news items and 26 thumbnails, but that isn't true, gathering the pictures, changing the file names to captions, ordering them, adding the story... Editing them once they arrive at the site. I'd guess a maximum of 45 minutes for those three news items. He does it weekly, sometimes more.
And there's me. I eat my own dog food :-)
Here's a good one of mine, with video, from the beach.
There is a lot you can do with the email to weblog feature. It's very, very powerful. It makes you look as though you've spent ages, and ages, when all it really took was a few minutes.
And remember, I look after you as you do this. In a kind of big brother way, I watch updates as they happen, comments coming in, pictures too. If there's something that I spot that you could do better with, I'll fix it, or text you so you know what not to do next time.
I hope this helps you and look forward to helping you in the future :-)
Steve (Can't say Hooker as some school's spam filters block me.)
We don't have a prospectus that we could put into the post. I like to keep costs down. I've looked at your school roll, we base our costs on the size of the school, since this is more equitous. Following are example costs:
- 350 pupils x £3 + DNS set up £25 + £50 domain name admin + £5 manual = £1,130 (but we have a cut off limit of £990) for your first year thence, £1 per pupil per year or £350 per year (but we have a cut off limit of £200)
- 250 pupils x £3 + DNS set up £25 + £50 domain name admin + £5 manual = £830 for your first year thence, £1 per pupil per year or £250 per year (but we have a cut off limit of £200)
- 150 pupils x £3 + DNS set up £25 + £50 domain name admin + £5 manual = £430 for your first year thence, £1 per pupil per year or £150 per year
- 30 pupils x £3 + DNS set up £25 + £50 domain name admin + £5 manual = £170 for your first year thence, £1 per pupil per year or £30 per year
You can read more about the above costs.
You can read what customers say on the BECTA site.
We've also a suite of lesson plans. I'd love to see a roving 10 year old reporter, prowling the play ground, note book and camera in hand. Here's some other 10 year old's work (notice the number of comments. Children react strongly to other children's writing.)
If you want to see how it all works here's a section of how tos.
You'll get a site that's as big as you want, no limits on pages, images nor files. We design the graphics from your instructions and images, logos and school colours. We add pages from your existing site or prospectus (you can add these but it's just nicer for us to do this for you, for you to have such pages completed from the get-go). These pages are editable at any time from any location: school, home, Spain, up a mountain from your mobile phone—seriously. Here's the Head, at Northern Ireland school Donemana doing it via the web interface from Prague.
Also included is the telephone, email and text support, mentoring, monitoring, maintenance and training. Training is as you'd expect, very easy. 10 minutes over the phone, and you've got it licked. You can have as many 10 minute sessions as you want. In short you get everything you could possibly need.
Once the site is up and running you add content to it yourself. And this is easy! It has to be or we wouldn't do it. Hit a button, type away, hit another button. I have my 8 year old daughter doing it and some Heads that can hardly move a mouse too. Updating the front page is a joy. Everything is automatic, new stuff at the top, old stuff falls off into the archives. Updating can get quite addictive. As you see traffic increase, visitors coming from other sites, people getting in contact with you, you'll realise the power of speaking directly.
Once you've posted a few items though the web interface, I'll talk you through the email interface. Essentially, you type your news, add your pictures as attachments, and send. That's about it.
Jemma the nursery nurse at Bodnant does it in 3 or 4 minutes. She doesn't hang about, doesn't spend much time on the niceties.
Stuart, the Deputy Head, at Walsallwood does it from his phone, possibly from up a tree on his school trip to Wales.
Tracy and Sue in Tameside do it too, in minutes.
Rob in Coventry... Look at the times he posted (the greyed out text at the foot of each posting). Apparently it took less than 8 minutes to post 3 news items and 26 thumbnails, but that isn't true, gathering the pictures, changing the file names to captions, ordering them, adding the story... Editing them once they arrive at the site. I'd guess a maximum of 45 minutes for those three news items. He does it weekly, sometimes more.
And there's me. I eat my own dog food :-)
Here's a good one of mine, with video, from the beach.
There is a lot you can do with the email to weblog feature. It's very, very powerful. It makes you look as though you've spent ages, and ages, when all it really took was a few minutes.
And remember, I look after you as you do this. In a kind of big brother way, I watch updates as they happen, comments coming in, pictures too. If there's something that I spot that you could do better with, I'll fix it, or text you so you know what not to do next time.
I hope this helps you and look forward to helping you in the future :-)
Steve (Can't say Hooker as some school's spam filters block me.)
