Here are the top 10 reasons why Educators consistently choose School Web Services (SWS) for their web site needs:
Reason #1:
Quality
Extraordinary Web Sites, Intranets, Extranets and Portals
We understand what it takes to build an educational institution's web site, and we have broad and deep experience. We specialize in building educational web sites – and that is our only line of business. Our product offering is designed with educators and students in mind; we provide training to Faculty and Administrative staff, to ensure they become proficient in using SWS products and services; and we work shoulder to shoulder from the initial design process all the way through training and ongoing support to ensure that your institution's web site meets your district standards.
When you’re ready to build a web site, we are ready to help you build it to ensure that you achieve your objectives and with full satisfaction and pride.
Reason #2:
Exceptional Client Relationships
One of the top reasons clients choose School Web Services is our relationship-based approach. Our CEO oversees every project and meets with every client; we take on a selected number of clients at a given time so that we can focus our undivided attention to each and every project; and we work very diligently to ensure we exceed our client's expectations - our client relationships don’t end when the project is successfully completed.
Reason #3:
Customization, Not Templates
We deliver a powerful system - the Campus Platform, strategically built upon the latest technology - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). While each of our clients relies upon a standard software foundation, we deliver a fresh design that is individually tailored to the unique needs of your institution. Your design is customized for your institution; it is not a cookie-cutter template. Our clients range from K-12 districts to the largest community colleges in California. Our software products run all of their web sites, customized to meet the gamut of variations of each institution.
We believe that software should adapt to individual needs, and that is the way we build our software products - with your individual needs in mind.
Reason #4:
We Emphasize Best Web Practices
It’s easy to just take an order for a web site, but our broad and deep experience ranging from K-12 to community colleges has given us first- hand knowledge of what works and what does not. We want you to leverage our experience. Do you have skeptics resistant to the benefits of a content management system? We have the experience and the evidence that in education, a content management system is the best method for maintaining your Web site up to date. Are you uncertain of the structure of your current site? Let us sit together and plan a taxonomy that will suit every constituencies needs. Are you challenged by non-technical educators who seem disinterested in updating their department’s web site content? It may take some effort, but we’ve found a winning strategy to win-over some of the biggest skeptics and actually have them become excited about using a web site content management system - including blogging features, online document libraries, online forms, wikis, let us convince you how it can be done. Whether it be content management questions, software recommendations, image guidelines or best practice suggestions, we’re happy to share our proven experience with you.
Reason #5:
Design and Branding
When using your web site as a marketing tool, information center, calendar, document center, administrative tool and point of reference, the customer facing design is just as important as the content and software. Our design process ensures that your vision is a fully researched and thoughtfully considered expression of your brand and your constituent's expectations. Our creative and project management teams work with you to ensure that all design elements are considered – we review everything from your target audience, branding, and ease of use, to site functionality.
Reason #6:
Campus PlatformTM SharePoint® Edition (CPSE)
Does your institution currently use FrontPage or Dreamweaver to upload content to your web site pages? Do pages go untouched for months, or sometimes even years with outdated content, while other pages are uploaded without consistent branding? Do you have only one bottleneck responsible for updating your entire web site? Let us remove the bottleneck burden of maintaining web site content by putting the management of content directly into the hands of the individual departments that actually create and maintain the content, and allow faculty and staff to easily update and maintain their individual department sites - with just browser and easy to use tools.
CPSE makes it easy for non-technical content authors or managers to update their web pages while more technical content authors or managers can take advantage of our advanced tool set. Instead of having a static site, your institution can steadily grow its presence on the Internet. The potential is unlimited - attract new students, increase attendance, minimize paper trails via online forms. You simply envision it, and we’ll do the rest.
Reason #7:
Continuous Module Upgrade
When you become a client, you not only have a partner who supports you, but you also have the peace of mind knowing that you are using a proven product and that your become a part of the “SWS family of partner clients”. Our Campus Platform product is built upon the latest, most reliable, standard Microsoft SharePoint technologies, allowing us to rapidly develop solutions that you want and need. As our client, you'll have all of these features available to you when you're ready for them.
Reason #8:
Clients and Culture
At SWS, we love our job - because we love to help our educational clients realize their vision. We specialize in educational for a reason – we’re passionate about the difference that you make in the lives of our children - your students. Our education partners are doing amazing things, and we choose to work with educators because we know that educators put a their heart and soul into their work, and SWS wants to support educators and their students.
Reason #9:
Your Budget Matters to Us
We realize that as an educational institution, there is much competition for scarce budget dollars, so it’s that easy to just buy a web site product and service. There are Faculty and staff committees, Superintendents, Boards of Education, and the community that must collaborate in the process. In some cases, it can take years to get the approval and budget to proceed with a new web site. That’s why when you’re ready to build a new web site, we're ready to work with you to budget all of your wish list items.
Before we start any project, we define the software requirements, scope, budget and deadlines. We conduct a content audit, provide taxonomy recommendations, and ensure that we’ll have enough time to deliver a breathrough product and service for students, faculty and staff.
Reason #10:
Small Team, Big Results
SWS may be smaller than other web agencies, but we keep our team small for a reason. We want to ensure that we remain responsive, nimble and cost-effective. When you select us, you're working with a team that is experienced, professional, and delivers the best quality possible. You have the same project team you know and trust, long after the initial launch.
Thank you
We appreciate your consideration of SWS for your new web site. We realize the amount of time that goes into planning, meeting and budgeting for a new educational web site, and we are ready to assist you in every way possible – from the initial consultation, to design, to software installation, to training, and overall project management, our team is always here to help you.
