Mill Falls has gotten a lot of local publicity over the past couple of months- and rightly so… They are a newly approved charter school set to open in the fall of 2012; a Montessori charter school. They had a lot of publicity…but what they didn’t have was a website.

See- it was in development, but the person who was working on it could not longer fit in the time to accomplish it and that is when the approached us; knee deep into development.

It wasn’t a difficult project to pick up; they had already started development in WordPress (a content management system we highly recommend for non profit organizations) and they had already picked their theme, so we were already half way to a new site… right?

What they really needed help with was creating a style for the site and school that wasn’t based on images of children- as they have not yet opened yet and not based on traditional school items, as Montessori is anything but traditional.

Working through several hands on sessions ( both the organization and ourselves) we designed a series of images based on the idea of kinetic typography; making bold, clear, and clean statements. Our graphic designer then worked with our web developer to incorporate elements of those designed images into other aspects of the site (navigation, header, footer, buttons) all while working within the confines of the already established theme.

During the hands on work sessions we also showed members of the organizations committee how to create content, pages, menus and sidebars so they are able to maintain the site themselves going forward. Our final step in this launch will be providing them with a manual on how to do all those things and more from the admin- that way if they forget they have something to reference. We’ll still be accessible to them though, to consult and make recommendations as the school goes from preparing to opening doors on the first day of school.

The site launched just today… Check it out: http://millfallscharterschool.org