• Visual Design
With its minimalist web design, the main content of the landing page is a full-page interchanging picture of students showcasing how it is to study and get involved with Avila College, minus all the non-essential clutter surrounding the homepage. It is important for a school website to show professionalism to site visitors by removing unimportant information that can create confusion and just focus on what it can offer.
• Structure and Navigation
The structure of the site is simple, straightforward and clear. The visitor can surf the site with ease, just hovering the mouse over each menu item in the responsive navigation bar, leads to submenus that will give access to the desired page. Another effective structuring of the
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Ballarat Grammar School http://www.bgs.vic.edu.au/ • Design
The landing page of Ballarat Grammar School is a full-screen inter-changing photo of the students with several quotes from people who got engaged with the school, which is a marketing strategy in promoting the school brand. It has clean, minimalistic header and navigation bar included in the banner. The site is designed to be scrolled down to provide additional information links answering the commonly asked questions by prospective clients and students’ experiences. The overall look of the site is clean, appealing and detailed from the header to the footer of each page.
• Structure and Navigation
The website’s main navigation page is fixed at the top page along with the school banner, which has a responsive drop down menu containing other contents of the site. It is noticeable that the visible submenu is located at the top of the main navigation, which makes the navigation experience unique but not complex to lessen the user experience when browsing pages.
• Content
From the school’s vision, boarding information, to the school uniforms, all pertinent information can be found at the site. The visitor will appreciate the information-packed website that can answer almost all their inquiries in a few clicks. Even trivial information is presented on each page creatively, under “Did you hear?”
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Bellarine Secondary College http://www.bellarinesc.vic.edu.au/ • Visual Design
Bellarine Secondary College has a page-sized image as its content at its landing page, with clickable buttons for other features of the website. Its design is elegantly simple, to complement the navy-blue banner and navigation bar.
• Structure and Navigation
Due to its simplicity and less clutter, web pages load quickly without any issue and it can smoothly move around a page to another, and the static header with its drop-down navigation bar makes it easy to go the preferred page with no hassles. Scrolling the site down provides more information about the school values and its current activities.
• Functionality
Bellarine Secondary College offers several purposes for the users to visit the site. It has options to report a bully through an online form, view the events’ calendar, college intranet, and parents’ portal. The school site also has dedicated button that links to “Student Interview” website. Its social media widget can be found in the mid-section of the page when scrolled down, that serves as its content marketing strategy to promote social media account of the school to