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VERSION 2



The Armidale Waldorf School website is a Joomla site based on a highly customised template. A full content management system with integrated blogging and automatic front page news posting via Twitter. The site was developed to reduce the administrative complexities at the ‘school end’. Integrated galleries, class blogging, video display capabilities and an integrated document library (offering both public and password protected access to selected files). The site was developed over several iterations and through an ever expanding group of ‘overseers’ which led, ultimately, to a total stall on progress and the decision by the school to simply not proceed. The lesson here is to work with a clearly defined brief and to maintain a tightly defined web development administrative process. Web sites can become astonishingly personal for people involved in identity-making exercises of this kind! The two main iterations of the site are displayed here. The site is now ‘filed’ but the design work is still worthy of inclusion on this Lifecycling Design portfolio list, if only to indicate the possibilities for school web sites. The complete template is available to any other school should there be interest in taking over an established and fully operational site at a fraction of the cost of building such a site from scratch. Contact Lifecycling Design if you would like to explore this opportunity for your own school organisation.