Website Goals 2024-25

1

Define Our Goals for This School Year

  1. Set up workable organization structure - who is in charge of what.
  2. Compile list of known tasks for this year.
  3. List of what else we would like to do.
  4. Recruit New Members.
  5. Plan training/learning path.
  6. Establish project method of assigning tasks.

Action Items

  • Identify people in charge of these steps.

2

Recruit and Strengthen Club

  1. Plan to Recruit More Members
  2. Training Planning to get new members up to speed
  3. Plan to assign projects and get members working
  4. Organization Structure to support all this...or none?

Targeted Date: September 30, 2023

Next Steps/Action Items

Website Club has been meeting since last fall.  For this school year:

  • Prepare for school Club Fair & Interest Meeting.
  • Want to make sure reach a diverse group of students - skill wise and in all other ways.
  • Prepare training materials/process for new members.

3

Think About What We Really Want

    1. How to get Feedback
      1. Who:  administration, staff, teachers, students, parents, alumni, community
      2. How:  brainstorming sessions, interviews, surveys, other?
    2. Review Current Website
      1. What content and functionality is working and we want to keep?
      2. What content or functionality needs to be updated or modified?
      3. What are we missing?  Content and functionality?
    3. Look for and identify other websites that inspire us both for design and for functionality.
    4. Review existing trends in website design and technology to keep it current.
    5. What vibe do we want the website to have? New logo?  Colors?

Targeted Date: October 30, 2023

Sections That Need REview

  1. College & Career
  2. Clubs
  3. Student Section
  4. Course Catalog/Course Selection - Master Schedule

4

Create a Plan of Attack

    1. Figure out how we are going to do this - what steps, how long will the take and in what order will we do them.
    2. Come up with a logical breakdown of tasks by both functionality and content area of the website.
    3. Identify resources and assign tasks.
    4. Research and select a tool to organize and keep the project on task.

 

Targeted Date: November 15, 2023

5

Design It

  1. Finalize our requirements for both design and content.

  2. Design the website including these key areas:

    1. Overall template

    2. Home page functionality and look

    3. Main content pages

    4. Other functionality - forms, tables, search, data repositories, etc.

  3. Update our plan to include any changes

Targeted Date: February 15, 2024

6

Create it

Based on our plan created in Step 4 and our design in Step 5 - create the new components of our website and update existing pieces as needed.

Targeted Date: Dependent on Schedule

7

Use It

A website is very much a living breathing entity.

  • Keep components updated to keep website secure.

  • Add news items and events.

  • Update content as needed.

  • Plan new features & functionality.