SharePoint as a feature rich and beautiful website
One of the projects our development team have been working on at Twynham School is the build of a new website. As you will know we love using SharePoint for everything and it is no surprise that we have been building Internet facing websites in SharePoint. We have already built our main site in SharePoint last year but as our development team of Chris Mckinley, Darren White and Rob Brown develop significant skills in SharePoint we wanted to push what we could do.
The real challenge was to create a site which could do everything a ‘normal’ website could do but with all the advantages of SharePoint. What advantages I hear you ask? The main one for us is that SharePoint websites can be edited by anybody and don’t need developers to maintain. I will be covering the ‘How we did it’ of our build of an Internet facing website in SharePoint after half term but here is a taster set of images and of course you can visit the new SharePoint website here.
6th Form Home Page- click to enlarge
6th Form Courses Carousel- click to enlarge
6th Form Subject Page- click to enlarge
6th Form Subject Vid Clip- click to enlarge
6th Form Prospectus Request- click to enlarge
6th Form 'I joined' Vid Clips- click to enlarge
I want this! I’ll explore this some more later but we have 24 schools who are at different levels of “webpage” quality.. some are updated, some aren’t… it’s always a mess and has been since forever. We do not have a centralized setup for webpages. We do use Sharepoint 2007 for our internal stuff that all staff have access to but are still awaiting a public view to some sharepoint sites. Thanks for posting this stuff! It’s definitely great food for thought!
Zal in Canada
How did you manage to use the Smart Flash Header (i recognize it from a joomla i once worked on) i thought it relied on the joomla framework. Could you post some details on how to got it to work ?
great design by the way
Martman