School website for Dalton School Montfort College
Also schools often make a first impression online! That's why it's important for the school website to align well with the school's mission and vision. In this case, it should be unique and contemporary!
Montfort is a Dalton school. Autonomy, responsibility, collaboration, effectiveness, and reflection are the five pillars on which Dalton education is based. These pillars should also be clearly visible online. Because the better the website represents your school, the more confident you can be that you are attracting the right students.
Your choice, your school
We developed a website for the Montfort College in Rotterdam where students can get to know the school. Of course, it was important to give the ideals of the school a prominent place on the website. However, visual content such as images and videos are particularly effective in conveying the real atmosphere. This way, prospective students can discover what it's like to attend the Montfort College.
Approach to school websites
When we start developing a website, we always first identify the wishes of the client and the needs of the target audience. We get to know the school, explore the challenges and desires, and put ourselves in the shoes of the target audience. This process of identifying goals, wishes, and needs is called the concept sprint. In this case, we had two different target audiences. Namely, parents and children. These target audiences differ from each other and therefore have different needs. We translate these needs and desires into clear functionalities and convert them into a wireframe, a clickable prototype.
Playful landing pages
We took the future into account in the design. Therefore, we have developed a special grid for landing pages. This deviates from the standard grids for the homepage and sub-homepages. With this solution, the editors of the Montfort College can create playful landing pages with lots of interactivity. This is very useful for building campaign pages in the future. For example, for recruiting new students!
Monty the school dog
One unique aspect of Montfort College is that they have a very cute colleague: Monty, the school dog. Of course, Monty deserves his own special place on the website. Monty can often be found in the school library, and Montfort College students are allowed to pet him and take him for a walk when they need to take a break. Monty loves all the attention and is completely accustomed to school life. He's a true school dog!
Multisite environment
he Montfort College website is part of a larger whole. It is one of the websites within the multisite environment of LMC-VO. Within this environment, LMC-VO (the school community of which Montfort College is also a part) can manage multiple websites. Each website within this environment shares the same base code, but that doesn't mean that the websites look the same. Quite the opposite; each website has its own design and can also be extended with additional custom functionality.
Within the multisite environment, technology, style, and functionality come together. By creating specific views for the different websites, it remains clear for users, such as communication employees. Although the multisite may be technically complex, a user doesn't notice anything and experiences the user-friendliness we are used to from Umbraco.
