January 9, 2009
SDPBC Web Redesign
Posted by Mark Howard under Educational Technology Team News, Palm Beach County School News | Tags: Web |[3] Comments
The SDPBC Web site is very often the first impression to prospective employees, parents and students and represents the priorities of the organization to stakeholders. Through the leadership of Deepak Agarwal (CIO), a presentation to the Superintendent’s Technology Committee demonstrated the need to provide consistent navigation and design, logical organization of content and use modern and efficient publishing methods to enrich the District brand through it’s Web presence and better serve all stakeholders.
Here is the PowerPoint presentation to STC with working links:
The SDPBC Web Redesign Project has been initiated through the Project Management Office (PMO) with the support of the Superintendent’s Technology Committee to:
Reorganize current District Web content by implementing a Web Publishing System that will provide standards, governance and support for departments to publish content in a consistent, organized and efficient manner in order to better serve all stakeholders and represent the District as an efficient and cohesive organization.
What does this mean for departments?
• Ability to focus on content
• Standardized templates and tools
• Efficient utilization of staff resources
• Reduced cost
• Technical support
• Part of a cohesive organization
Want to participate and learn more – attend a Stakeholder Workshop!!




January 29th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
This is long overdue. I took over as webmaster for three District websites within the past couple of years, and quickly realized that each department was more or less on their own when it came to web design.
It was especially challenging at first to find answers to questions such as: what web editing program should I use, can I use FrontPage extensions, should I program using html or php, and can I include blogs, wikis, etc. I more or less had to learn by trial and error. Other questions involved webhosting, domain names, and FTP access.
If anyone is interested, the sites I edit are http://www.pbceducator.net and http://www.k12-support.com. I have completely redone the first site. The second one is pretty much like I inherited it.
How can we find out when and where the next Stakeholder Workshop will take place? I would definitely like to attend.
Also, does the District have an account that we could use to create and display Sliderocket presentations?
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:34 am
This is long over due.
When will the Stakeholder Workshops be?
March 5th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Glad to hear that this project is moving forward. I think it will be fantastic!