Websites for Educational Establishments

Schools, colleges and other educational establishments have particular needs in their websites, which are not always the same as for commercial operations. Low cost is usually a priority, and to keep cost low TRIBiQ usually recommends a content-managed approach.

Staff within the educational establishment usually have the skills to prepare high quality content material, and are keen to save on costs by adding and maintaining content in-house.

Another requirement is sometimes to have a part of the website dedicated to alumni or some other kind of membership. This can be a means for ex-students to keep in touch.

Mary Hare, National Grammar School for the Deaf

TRIBiQ has worked with Mary Hare for many years, and has designed the existing website and the content management system which delivers its content.

Mary Hare is more than just a school: there are parts of the organization which deliver training, operate a conference venue, do research and development into hearing aids, arrange events, and perform fundraising activities.

The website encompasses all of these varied activities, and careful visual design has made the site capable of projecting this range of things while still enabling an interested parent to find the basic school-related information quickly.

The TRIBiQ Content Management System (CMS) is employed on the site, and this makes it easy for administrators to keep content fresh. This approach also helps make pages well optimized for search engines.

The various activities are classified into "categories" in the CMS. There is a category-based search-engine, and small tools like an automatic sitemap generator and a breadcrumb trail help users navigate the site.

Mary Hare staff have been delighted with the site, not only with its appearance and manageability but also with its growing search engine performance.

Customer Testimonial

"Mary Hare is a growing organisation and becoming ever more diverse in the services it provides. Tribal came up with a web-site for us that meets all our needs, and makes sure that it continues to do so on an on-going basis. Staff at Tribal always respond quickly to questions and implement changes and developments promptly. Importantly for us, as an educational establishment that does not have the resources to keep abreast of technical advances that may be of benefit, Tribal make us aware of new ideas that may be useful.

As a national charity we have to make sure we get value for money and working on the TRIBiQ CMS system, we are able to get the very best for our limited resources. Not least, staff at Tribal are very friendly and pleasant to work with."

- Development Director, Mary Hare