Nayland College is a very highly regarded coed high school in Stoke, Nelson. They have been serving the Nelson community for over 50 years.
Nayland College
Nayland has been a client since 2018 and the website has gone through a few ‘iterations’.
We did a redesign of their existing website in 2018 and then redesigned the home page in 2024 to bring it more up to date both in design and in the backend.
Nayland College's website redesign objectives
Make the website look more modern and align with the branding being developed for the prospectus
Reorganise the structure of the site to make it easier to find information
Significantly improve the website load to to improve the experience of visitors and college staff managing the website
Integrate with KAMAR student management system with login links and syncing of calendar events
Integrate with HAIL to create, publish, and share engaging content like stories, articles, newsletters, and updates with their community
Audit and remove old content, WordPress plugins and images
Our strategy
We created a website using a modern technology stack including events management with a look and feel to reflect the brochure design by HotHouse. It was important that the website was natively mobile responsive.
Key features of the website design:
Creating a new look, feel and colour scheme for the website matching the brochure design for this year, while thinking what the implications would be for next years design
Incorporate various design elements from the brochure to ensure a continuity between the brochure and the website
Set up an events management system with customised layouts
Create banners for events based on categories, taxonomies and tags
Create templates for internal pages
Create global modules that can be reused within the site to maintain the consistency of design elements