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Features

Some of these features are standard for all our newly made sites, others are available on request at special rates.

Click to get to the feature you want to see.

 

Title page: columns (newspaper style)

Example:

Title page: Enter here [Standard]

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Handcrafted map

All inessential details have been omitted, landmarks stand out more clearly, site is easier to find

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Standard map for the same location (for comparison)

Note: 59 London Road (the business location) is very difficult to show and find on a standard map. <go to top>

Comparison of standard map and handcrafted map for the same location: to be inserted here <go to top>

Menu: vertical expanding menu [standard]

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Menu: fly-out menu, vertical

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Menu: fly-out menu (drop-down), horizontal

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Press Cuttings

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Don't put your light under a bushel. Don't hide your efforts and your achievements. Let the local paper know about everything you do. Tell visitors to your website what the paper has written about you. Encourage pupils, parents and friends of the school by letting them enjoy the publicity of being 'in the papers' and on your web site. <go to top>

Classes pages: flickable [standard]

We now make all our classes pages 'flickable', i.e. you can get at each class not only from the menu, but you can also 'flick' the pages from class to class by clicking on the previous/next bar.

We now have a similar policy whenever there are several pages of the same group (e.g. clubs pages, press pages, gallery pages, etc).

This is convenient for all visitors to your site. It will also help when you want to show your work systematically to Ofsted inspectors. All your work is quickly accessible, nothing can be forgotten, the amount of clicking and distraction is reduced to a minimum.

Our general aim is to make sure visitors can find quickly what they are looking, the don't miss any of the information on your site, the have to do as little clicking as possible, in brief 'Efficient Navigation'.

Examples: Flickable classes pages:

Children's work

The website is used to display children's work. This

  • motivates and rewards the children,
  • pleases the parents,
  • shows the school's achievements to the public and next year's intake,
  • shows Ofsted inspectors at the touch of a button the best that has been achieved in all classes; nothing that you want to show can be forgotten.

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Sound effects

You can also have sound effects on your website.

Newsletters

Your newsletters announce not only what is about to happen during the next month and what have been doing during the past month, but, over a longer period of time (several years), they can also be a useful record of your cumulative achievements and over your long-term development.

It is therefore useful to send this information not only to your current parents but also to publish it on your website. Past newsletters can go into your website archive, and still be instantly available to all visitor to your site, past, present and future parents and children, Ofsted inspectors, casual visitors.

Newsletters on the website can therefore be part of your strategy for publicising your school. They help you to ensure that your long-term achievements are not overlooked.

If you ask us to maintain your website (keep it up-to-date), you can send us your newsletters by e-mail and we will put them on your site.

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Minutes

We present minutes in a way that is similar to Newsletters. These minutes are flickable. You can access them either from a Minutes Index Page or you can flick from one set of Minutes to the next, by using the previous / next bar.

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Site map

A site map is an extension of the menu. It shows the visitor at a glance all the pages on your site. He does not have to guess underneath which menu button (and how many levels down) a certain page may be hidden. Most pages are only one click away from the Site Map.

Benefits of a site map:

  • Visitors see at a glance every page on your site
  • Faster access to all pages (less guesswork, less clicking)
  • If you have a Site Map, Search Engines (such as Google) find it easier to access your site and the information on you inner pages will become more accessible to people searching the Web for information.

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Easy navigation

All our recent web pages contain a down-arrow and an up-arrow , which enable the visitor to jump from top to bottom and from bottom to top of each page at one click. (standard)

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Robustness and accessibility

All our recent websites (to be gradually extended also to our older websites) are designed in such a way that they work not only with Internet Explorer and not only with most recent versions of browser but also with other and older browsers, such as Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape, Opera, etc. This increases the number of people who can view your web site without inconvenience and without hassle.

We make sure that our websites download quickly and that visitors are not delayed by distracting and frustrating gimmicks. The purpose of your website is not to show how smart we, the web designers, are, but to get the visitor as quickly as possible to the information you want him to see.

It also makes your website more accessible to search engines (e.g. Google) and therefore increases the number of people who can see what you have to say.

We also take care that our web sites can easily be accessed by speech browsers. These are programs used by visually handicapped people. They read out the texts contained on your website (computer voice) and give brief descriptions of the contents of images. We provide these in the form of 'alt-texts' for all images.

To ensure that we achieve these aims we have adopted a standard called "doctype HTML 4.01 strict" and validate our pages to meet this standard. This is now routine for all our new sites, and we are gradually upgrading older sites to this standard.

In brief:

  • Our websites work not only with the most recent browsers but also with older browsers and older computers.
  • Our websites are easily accessed by search engines.
  • Our websites are easy to use by visually handicapped people.

Examples:

rtc Marketing - rtc-Webdevelopment

Contact details for rtc marketing

 

Valid HTML 4.01!

This page has been validated and conforms to the "HTML 4.01 Strict!" standard.
(5 Feb 2010)

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