I talked a little bit in my last post about how the design of an educational website should not be flashy or have a lot going on. I talked about how it should be kept pretty plain and professional looking. I’ve also mentioned who would benefit from having an educational website dedicated to a school. There are two main people that are going to be looking at an educational website. One being the parents and this is for when the student is too young to think about anything other than what 4×4 is. It’s sixteen. The other is for the students; this is usually and in most cases college websites.

A college website should be geared towards the student rather than the parents. This is because is it is normally the student who looks around at what schools they would like to attend. There should therefore be some good information presented to the student right away. College websites are usually put together a little better than most primary school websites. This is for a couple of reasons. One being that colleges make a lot more money as far as tuition and fees go than other schools. Also because college is a very important time in a students life. It is where you get the degree you’ll be using for the rest of your life. There is a lot of pressure that comes along with college and students want to find the perfect college for them. This is why an educational website on this level is built to impress.

A college’s website should have a layout that is very simple. With the buttons generally across the top of down the left hand side. Pictures help immensely on college websites because students will want and enjoy seeing visuals of a place they will possibly be spending four years of their life. There should also be a lot of information that should be broken up into a couple categories: new students, returning students, etc. These features should be present on every educational website made at the college level. For more information on educational web design check us out at DreamCo Design – Educational Web Design. For more information on other types of web design take a look at DreamCo Design – Web Design.