Kew College approached us looking for a design and development agency to partner with ‘The Noble Union’ to deliver a complete overhaul of their online presence.

We installed, configured and deployed ExpressionEngine allowing us to provide parents, pupils and staff with varying levels of access to content using the Users Module.

Event, term and sports calendars allow parents and pupils to keep in touch with what’s going on.

Parents can register (using the freeform module) for SMS alerts, to receive a prospectus and to gain access to a gallery of photos from school events. The Gallery is built using the standard Gallery module with a few custom pages and a very useful plugin Gallery Category Parent built by our very own (Nine Four) Nathan Pitman.

Pupils can communicate and engage in meaningful discussion with their teachers via the staff blog.

Take a look at the Kew College Website…

Modules Used

  freeform - http://www.solspace.com/software/detail/freeform
  Photo Gallery
  Mailing List
  Pages
  User

Plugins Used

Pages – Nested Menu (v.1.1.9)
Nested List of Pages - http://docs.markhuot.com

Image Sizer (v.2.1.2)
Image Resizer - resizes and caches images - http://www.lumis.com

Child Categories (v.1.6)
Allows you to find all child categories after specifying parent or sibling category and display lists of entries posted to child categories. - http://www.classicsunlocked.net

Gallery Category Parent (v.1.1)
Return the name of the parent category for any given gallery category - http://github.com/nathanpitman/np.gallery_category_parent.ee_addon/tree/master

Extensions Used

User (v.2.0.7)
Handles User module behavior - http://www.solspace.com/software/detail/user/

Hi Paul,

Well done on an excellent site. Really nice clean design and easy to navigate. Always pluses in my book!!

Excellent work.

Best wishes,

Mark

Thanks Mark!

Cool site. I didn’t know Pages had a menu plugin until now. Any reason you opted for Pages and that plugin over something like Structure?

litzinger - 07 July 2009 08:45 AM

Cool site. I didn’t know Pages had a menu plugin until now. Any reason you opted for Pages and that plugin over something like Structure?

Thanks you

Re pages menu - No real reason it just what we have used in the past. I’ll have to look at structure.

A very fun site!

One thing, when you print the full calendar, it shows expired dates.

If they are then -

would be a good solution.

Apologies if they’re not!

stinhambo - 09 July 2009 01:29 AM

A very fun site!

One thing, when you print the full calendar, it shows expired dates.

If they are then -

start_on="{current_time format='%Y-%m-%d %H:%i'}" show_future_entries="yes"

would be a good solution.

Apologies if they’re not!

thanks stinhambo, I’ll review the code.

A beautiful site, really attractive and the design suits education perfectly. Hats off.

Nice looking site. I was poking around and reading some of the items and I noticed a spelling error in the 4th bullet of the Our Curriculum -> English.

To enable children to **speck** clearly, fluently and confidently and listen attentively and respond appropriately.

- John