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General Information
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Who designed the website? [top] |
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website was designed by Bradley Univesity student
Jacob
Bland (jbland@pekin.net)
and Eastern Illinois University student Matt DeFrates
(mdefrates@pekin.net).
Supervision is provided to all technology personnel
by
Angie Arnold (aarnold@pekin.net),
Technology Center Supervisor. |
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Who runs the website? [top] |
The
district website is developed and maintained by Jacob
Bland and Matt DeFrates, with the assistance of Chris
Fort, a Pekin High School student recently hired as
Web-Intern. Angie Arnold oversees the content development
of the district website. Each of the ten schools within
the district has their own school webmaster. Below
is a list of the webmasters:
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Who supplies webmasters with content? [top] |
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What programs are used to develop the site? [top] |
For
the development of the pages we use Macromedia Dreamweaver
and a text editor such as Notepad. Notepad is used to
view the actual HTML code that makes up the document,
and is often more efficient than using an HTML WYSIWYG
editor. Some animation and interactive pages are created
through Macromedia Flash.
Adobe
Photoshop is used to create and optimize the graphics
on the site.
The
message boards on the site are developed using O'Reilly's
WebBoard software. FileMaker Pro is used to develop
our Intranet applications. IBM's Learning Village is
also used for various internal and external functions. |
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How many hours do the webmasters spend updating the page? [top] |
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the summer, the District 108 Webmasters work full-time
Monday to Friday, 8:00-4:30. During the school year, each
the District 108 webmasters work part-time on an average
of 10 hours per week. Summers are primarily spent developing
new areas of the site, redesigning, and providing training
for the school webmasters. Part-time work during the school
year consists of maintenance and trouble shooting tasks.
The Technology Center Supervisor is a full time position,
although only a small portion of time is devoted to the
website. Each of the school webmasters update their school
site on their own schedule, but most of the school websites
are updated on a weekly basis. |
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Do students contribute to the content on the web page? [top] |
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of the ten schools have the option of creating their own
school webmaster club. The group of students in the club
are taught web development skills, and contribute to the
content and design of the schools website. |
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Who is your target audience? [top] |
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district website reaches out to Staff, Parents, Students,
and Visitors to the district. From the front page of the
district website, the user can select either the Staff,
Student, Parents,
or Visitors section.
Each of these sections is specifically designed to meet
the needs of the user. |
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What has been the response of the parents? [top] |
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of the parent feedback is positive. They enjoy viewing
their child's work on the website, as well as being informed
about upcoming events in the district. The website has
proved to be an effective communication tool between parents
and the district. |
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On average how many people visit your website? [top] |
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webmasters run a statistics analyzer (much more accurate
than a simple counter) that calculates traffic on this
website. Reports show that we have just over one million
hits per month, and more spefically about 100,000 unique
visitors per month. The average user spends about 20 minutes
on our site. |
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| 10.
What kind of advice would you give to another school district
just starting a website? [top] |
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