school websites

[Anonymous]

What school websites do you find most informative and easy to navigate?

[Anonymous]

Is this an AD asking? I think each school's website portrays the school's personality. As I go through schools' websites I can get a measure of what they find important, how much they want to impress upon me that they have some African-American students who are photogenic, and how much resources they have. There seems to be high correlation between the look and professional feel of a website with a school's reputation and cash reserves. Schools with broken links, garbled html language, and lack of substance says a lot.

I pay attention to what schools emphasize and note even if things are listed in alpha order or in order of most importance to them. I read everything and can pick out the schools that lack substance by the content they put out. Sometimes the stuff just reads like a bunch of crap when you spend more than a minute really thinking what ARE they saying.

Hope this helps you and your school.