I'm often asked for more information on our services. I never know what to write, and always end up writing far too much. So, I thought I'd standardise wot I write...

Updating is a doddle. Anyone, anywhere, so long as they have the correct rights. Kids can work at home, and have. I've done it from the beach, sending email off my mobile phone, with pictures and videos attached. Schools have blog clubs, adding news items can link in with lesson themes, writing for different audiences is own my enthusiasm. I'd like to see roving reporters in the playground. Small news is big news for little people.

Our costs are simple and public, £3 per pupil up to a max. of £990. Per year, thereafter: £1 per pupil up to a max. of £200. We're on Becta's list so you can find out about our prices, and reviews there, and if you're in England you can use your ELCs.

We totally look after your site while you update and have fun. [Warning:] it can get addictive and a little competitive.

We take your prospectus, stuff off your old site, some pictures, logo, and design you a nice look fitting your whims.

Take a look around the other sites, see how easily stuff gets put on? Content Management for the rest of us. Feedback from parents and ex pupils is full of praise. These are not just ordinary sites, these are are living, breathing, active sites. With high traffic and detailed stats.

Donemana, Northern Ireland, is such a small school, yet they have the most active comments! The Head posts the most but other teachers help out too. Jemma the nursery nurse at Bodnant Infants, Prestatyn, whacks 30 pictures in, in one go, three, four or five times a week—sometimes much more—she wouldn't do it unless it was easy. She's going to add video in the next few days. With Walsall Wood: the comments from parents addressed to their children on a weekend adventure holiday are priceless.

Fun is what we're here for; we work hard to make it easy for you.

All my customers will say good things about me. I count all my customers as friends, albeit distant ones.

I listen: fix and modify features. Add power, make things easier, take out process steps. We've recently added multi themes, seasonal, high day and holiday designs. Just a bit of fun.

We're totally tooled up as web 2.0. We were there at the start of web 2.0, way back in 1999, when we helped test RSS. We were the second blog platform, ever and were the first with podcasting and in-built aggregators. We are totally Google friendly, respectful and have good Page Rank scores. Been there, got the t-shirt.

There's two ways to add content. Through the web, which many of my schools choose as the sole way of updating, or, and once you've done this your eyes will pop out, by merely emailing in: 30 pictures; Word, PDF, Excel docs; even small videos.

Rob, the ICT in Glendale, Nuneaton, Warwickshire adds pages full of pictures via email directly into the depths of their site's structure. Simple!

You could set up your secretary to email in newsletters & letters home to the right place too... As Stuart Cox the Deputy Head at Walsall Wood has done.

An ex grammar school in Leeds, has two sites, one for video for the media department and one for as the main site. (I wish I could get him to let the children 'have a go.')

Waterloo in Tameside have a large past pupils section. It's good to hear about school life during the Second World War. I think children learn lots from such real stories.

# Posted by Demo Tester at 11/1/08; 1:15:04 PM to the Notices Admin Staff dept.
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