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Puyallup School District Unveils Redesigned Website, Logo

From The Puyallup School District: 

A new district website, featuring up-to-date and informative information, photos, and videos, launched May 15 and is designed to actively engage students, teachers, families, and the community. 

The new website is focused on the user’s experience, making retrieving information easier, faster, and more efficient, said Brian Fox, executive director of communications, information, and arts education. 

“We hope our community finds this new website easy to navigate and filled with current and useful information,” Fox said. 

The Home page design features a background image of Mt. Rainier and daffodils in the Puyallup Valley, a slideshow of rotating photos that feature student learning linked to current news articles, and three columns of information. 

Like the former website, the newly designed site features upcoming events, news, a featured video, links to other pages, and a Student Gallery of artwork by students in kindergarten through grade 12. 

A search button, depicted with a magnifying glass icon at the top of the Home page, makes it easy for users to find information they need at the click of a button. A globe icon can be clicked to translate pages into different languages, while a megaphone image can be clicked to share the page in social media. 

Six circle icons also at the top of the Home page can be clicked for quick access to information about bus schedules, lunch menus, emergency information, and Home Access Center, as well as direct links to the school district Facebook and Twitter accounts. 

The new website is easily accessible from mobile phones or similar mobile communication devices. When the site is opened on a mobile device, the user gets a list view of the top menu bar showing a selection of programs, departments, and other district information. Users have the option to switch to see the full website. 

School websites will be phased in beginning this spring and continue through summer in time for the first day of school on Wednesday, September 4. Walker High, Ballou Junior High, and Karshner Elementary school websites also launched on May 15 along with the district website. 

The school websites, which include a message from the principal on the Home page, will be integrated into the main district site as one communications platform. This will make it possible to send information quickly and easily to all 32 schools, Fox said. 

Teachers throughout the district will also be developing their own website pages during a phased-in process in the 2013-14 school year. TeacherWeb (SWIFT) sites will be discontinued with the launch of the new school sites. 

The school district’s Communications and Information department and the Information Technology Center have contracted with the Edline company to create the new website. The district website was last updated in 2005. Since then, various schools have updated sites separate from the district Web page. 

New district logo
 

The new website also features a newly designed Puyallup School District logo. The redesigned logo replaces one that was more than 20 years old.

The new logo was selected after a survey of all district staff, as well as community members who have signed up as key communicators. The same survey, which asked for a top choice among three proposed logos, was also linked on the district Facebook page to invite community input.

The survey generated feedback from more than 2,000 staff and community members. 

Designed by a professional graphic artist in the area, the new logo features a blue banner bordered in orange. Inside the banner is a capital letter “P” for Puyallup and an image of a snow-covered Mt. Rainier that includes the year the district was incorporated (1854). To the right of the logo is the Puyallup School District name atop its new tagline, “A Tradition of Excellence.” 

“Members of the Puyallup community take great pride in their schools and in the tradition of excellence in education which can be found in Puyallup schools,” Fox said. “With our new logo and our new website, we hope to represent the students and alumni of our schools in an elegant and professional fashion.”


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