“All of the key content has been migrated at this point,” she said.
The site is currently online but is not being publicized because it has not been finished.
District staff will be able to perform most of the upkeep and maintenance for the site in-house, Junge said.
The new site will have a cleaner-looking home page with fewer links, to minimize confusion, Junge said.
Important information will be concentrated where Internet users’ eyes normally fall, such as across the top of the screen and vertically down the left-hand side.
With the new site, the school district has created multiple pathways to the same pieces of information and has minimized the amount of scrolling up and down that users have to do to read pages, Junge said.
“There are multiple links or roads to any one bit of information,” she said.
For instance, users will be able to find the Web pages for a particular school in the district in various ways, such as by clicking on a school’s general location within a map of Glendale, or by choosing a school from a vertical list.
The site will also have a more nuanced calendar feature that will allow parents or other school stakeholders who log on to the website to filter the calendar pages to see just information pertaining to particular schools or school activities.
Parents who log on and select the calendar options will then be e-mailed when one of their selected activities has a time change, Junge said.
The school district will also now have the ability to post job openings on its website, and interested individuals will be able to submit their applications through the website.
