Today I had a meeting with one of my clients, Blackwood High School.

To lay down some background, I completed my Network Management I.T. Traineeship with them in 2007. During that time they asked me to begin creating them a new website. By the time I had finished my traineeship there I had the majority of the website completed, after I had finished they wanted to take me on as a freelancer to complete their website and maintain it from then on.

I have been waiting on content from them for the new site, today I met with the Principal and My IT boss today to talk more about the site and direction in taking it. I proposed to them the idea of having their own CMS (Content Mangement System) coded to their specifications. I pitched them this idea and they liked it. So now begins the process of getting a developer to build a back end for the website I have already designed. This is good news, it gives me a chance to have a project made that I can use on other clients as well with a CMS that I will find easy to use and doesn’t come massively bloated like some Content Management Systems are.

I also pitched them the idea of using Sean Slaters Feedsent to have parents, students and past scholars signed up so that when new newsletters are uploaded, or updates on the website. Feedsent will email them at monthly intervals to tell them what’s been happening.

Good news it is, more of this to come in coming weeks.