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February 4, 2025
School Website Spring Cleaning: Clear out those cobwebs and learn what to look for so that your website displays its most current content. Join us (and bring your laptop) for a session to help you weed away outdated content, spruce up existing pages, and leave with a best-tips checklist to freshen your site for the next semester and beyond.
- Bryan Buser, Multimedia Development Specialist, HR
Presentation Goals:
Using best practices, trends, and site functionality to declutter your workbench and freshen your public-facing pages to draw in new and hold existing audiences, while providing up-to-date content that meets FCPS standardization.
- Fresh photo revamp, photo positioning, and photo purposing.
- Looking at pages across multiple devices and making adjustments for visitor viewing optimization.
- Filtering and sorting your workbench to remove content that is no longer needed.
- Using the public site search to look for dated published content.
- Maximizing your full menu.
- Updating references and pages of school lunch menus, food and nutrition services, School Innovation and Improvement Plan, family liaison, student registration, and student withdrawal pages.
- Using existing content to create an online parent handbook.
- Organizing/reorganizing a page through the use of headings, text, and bulleted lists.
- Ensuring your pages have web-accessible content.
Timestamps
- 0:00 - Homepage Photo Optimization (Computer/Mobile Device).
- 2:24 - Adjusting the width of the top ten page photos, if necessary, for mobile responsiveness.
- 6:20 - Adding the top ten to the About Us page as a permanent living location.
- 8:31 - Locating dated content through a public site search.
- 11:40 - Workbench filtering to delete content you'll never use again.
- 18:50 - Updating school meal menu references, removing the cafeteria page (if applicable), and adding a callout to the FCPS food and nutrition page.
- 26:40 - Using crosshairs to reposition photos.
- 33:38 - Updating SIIP - utilizing correct headings and bulleted lists to structure the current content.
- 37:45 - Changing references of parent liaison to family liaison (full menu updating component).
- 44:34 - Editing a web form & pages to edit if/when you have a new SIA/SSA/registrar.
- 48:44 - Admin page photo layout.
- 50:45 - Creating a placeholder hero graphic of your school logo.
- 57:20 - Parent handbook as a webpage(s).
Accessible SIIP Example (using headings and bulleted lists)
https://columbiaes.fcps.edu/about/school-innovation-and-improvement-plan - a great SIIP page to use as a reference/template/example
Family Liaison Page Example
https://woodburnes.fcps.edu/student-services/family-liaison - a great family liaison page to use as a reference/template/example
Online Parent/Family Handbook Examples
https://oldecreekes.fcps.edu/resources/parent-handbook - through the use of cards/basic list
https://springfieldestateses.fcps.edu/parent-handbook - through use of an accordion
Food and Nutrition Services School Website Request
On your resources page, add a callout one-up and link to the food and nutrition page.
Link: https://www.fcps.edu/family-resources/student-safety-and-wellness/food-and-nutrition-programs
Link text: Learn about FCPS food and nutrition programs
Example: https://springfieldestateses.fcps.edu/resources
The other request of Food and Nutrition Services was, if you have one, to remove the school's cafeteria page, as some of the procedures and information are dated. Unpublishing the page and having the link to https://www.fcps.edu/family-resources/student-safety-and-wellness/food-and-nutrition-programs from your resources page is the solution that works.
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Brandfolder for Promo Icons, Hero Images, Announcement Thumbnails, Etc.
https://brandfolder.com/fairfaxcountypublicschools/web-resources - this is where the images are located.
FCPS Brandfolder Account - these are the steps to create your account the first time.
School Website Manual
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QUHegINYAdB32UkFyfDjX8MEPhNRWMWWQghMij4MI4Q/edit?usp=sharing
Schoology Group
Join our Schoology group, OCCR - School Web Curator User Group, at https://lms.fcps.edu/group/5107004446.
Training Resources
Website Training for Site Administrators
It is divided into six required sections and optional supplemental video resources covering many more advanced concepts.
- Section 1 - How Your School Website Works and Your Role in Making That Happen (19 minutes)
- Section 2 - Homepage Editing (18 minutes)
- Section 3 - Creating/Managing Events(14 minutes). You may need to turn your volume up for this one.
- Section 4 - Creating/Managing Announcements (32 minutes)
- Section 5 - Creating/Maintaining Basic Pages and Section Pages (45 minutes)
- Section 6 - Other Best Practices, Tidbits, Tricks, and Shortcuts (50 minutes)