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Research Day 2005 Friday, May 6th. GCA Website Project Keith Bodie Janis Archer. GCA Website Project. The Academy of Our Lady of Good Counsel High School is a private girls’ high school located in White Plains, NY Throughout its more than 80 year history, the school has embraced values of: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Research Day 2005 Friday, May 6th
GCA Website Project
Keith BodieJanis Archer
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GCA Website Project
The Academy of Our Lady of Good Counsel High School is a private girls’ high school located in White Plains, NY
Throughout its more than 80 year history, the school has embraced values of: Academic excellence Service Compassion Diversity Leadership
The students, faculty, administration, alumnae, parents and friends form a community in support of these values.
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Communication and connection are essential for keeping this community thriving and growing
The school’s needs have outgrown a static, student-oriented website developed in 1998
The goal to design and build a more dynamic site targeted for a broader audience that communicates a growing technical savvy without losing sight of the values and traditions that define the school’s character.
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The solution provides a single location where information needs of the entire GCA community can be served while fostering connectedness within and among the diverse constituents.
The website needed to be easy to navigate for the sophisticate and novice alike and have a professional and appealing look and feel.
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In order to accomplish these goals, a consistent design was used throughout the site along with a pop up menu that allowed any page of the website to be reached by a single mouse click.
In order to support the dynamic content essential for a truly effective website, a user-friendly mechanism for staff and faculty to update web content was created.
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First, the Header and Footer were designed.
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The Navigation Menu was designed and implemented in JavaScript, granting access to any page with a single mouse click.
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The site contains a mixture of content pages which are static, partly dynamic or fully dynamic.
A MySQL database is used as the repository for the dynamic portion of the content.
In all, there are 5 different types of pages in the website: Static pages Dynamic List Pages Dynamic Field Pages Dynamic Table Pages Dynamic Calendar Pages
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Static Pages are simple HTML and are not updateable without actually changing the code. This type was chosen for pages that are not likely to change often.
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Dynamic List Pages have content that appears as a series of bullet points. The actual content is extracted from a database.
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The Site Administration is password protected and easily navigated. Authorized users can add, edit or delete line items in a page’s list.
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Dynamic Field Pages consist primarily of static content with a few updateable fields interspersed
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Dynamic Table Pages allow the user to update tabular content.
Single and multiple level tables are accommodated.
The Library > Research Help page requires a multi-level dynamic table.
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First, the user specifies categories of research and the order in which these categories are to appear.
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Then, the user enters the resources within each category.
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The result is a webpage which displays a large volume of information in a well organized manner and provides the user with exceptional flexibility.
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Dynamic Calendar Pages provide the user with a calendar and a viewable schedule of events. Each calendar has its own instance for event recording in the database.
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Links are provided to other important sites.
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PDFs are available for download
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Information is solicited, encouraging two-way communication
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Broadcast capability is provided
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And for the future…??? More photos More editable content Access to the library card catalog Alumnae chat room On-line application submission Accept tuition payments On-line bookstore
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http://w1.atgnet.com/gca/index.php http://w1.atgnet.com/gca/admin/login.php
