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Enhancing your Web Site

Once a basic school web site has been established, you (or other people) may want to add to its functionality or appearance. Such requests are often accompanied by the phrase "I saw on XYZ web site a really cool thing that wiggled/flashed/spun/etc. - can't we do that on ours?"

Here are some pages on how to go about implementing some of those features, plus useful lists of resources which might give you some inspiration.

Access Counters

Show visitor statistics on when users visited your site, what browser they were using and which time zone they were in.

Calendars
Create an online calendar which can be edited by the staff in your school.

Form Processing
Provide a form for people to comment or provide feedback on your web site, or to send you a request for your school prospectus.

Guestbooks
Create an electronic visitors book for your site.

PodCasting new

Podcasting is basically publishing radio style sound recordings on a website. It’s like a radio show stored as an MP3 file. By podcasting, you can broadcast to the world without the need for specialist equipment or a licence.

Postcards
Create electronic postcards of your school or the surrounding area for visitors to send.

Site Search facilities
Provide the facility to search your web site.

Surveys, Polls and online Voting
Conduct voting, surveys and online polls about issues which affect your school.

Internet Searches
Add the functionality to your web site to enable visitors to search the Internet using Google.

Adding Sound
If you want to consider incorporating sound onto your web pages will help you.

Useful Web Sites For Downloading Scripts
This page has links to useful web sites which offer JavaScript and HTML code that you can add to your web site. The pieces of code contained in these web sites do such things as add a 'news ticker' which gives you a scrolling 'news bar' of latest updates, provide games and 'trailing cursors'.