Consistency on a Webpage

What do you want your website to do?

What are the expectations of the website?

What should it do?

Most importantly, what should it NOT do?

This is the question our Technology Leadership Group is trying to understand.

We are currently using an outside company to assist us in the organization, structure and hosting of our website.  We have an increasing number of teachers leaving this service to create their website on a program on their computer call iWeb and publishing that page they create from that software to an in district intranet server.  Basically, we have two services running within the district.

Why did we choose paradigm?  
They are a small St. Louis based company that have some structures in place to assist us in create a consistent experience for those that view our website.

So what's the problem?
Teachers have become increasingly upset about the interface they have to post information, resources, links, images, etc. to the website.  Since that experience in broken, it's caused teachers to start asking questions about this service and begin developing new expectations of what a website should be.


Starting discussions:

• What are the timelines for evaluating this resource?
• What should a website be/do?
• What more can the Paradigm company offer us?
• What are all the stakeholders opinions of the service as it is to date (parents, students, teachers)?
• What are the options to change this resource?
• What is the cost and time allotment necessary to shift resources should the stakeholders feel a change is necessary?