A kick to the old website
On August 26, 2015, the new website of NPHS was released. The website, which was designed by Richard Kick, computer science teacher and website designer, was created under the watch of principal Joshua Eby and the approval of the district.
“It’s a template from the district and Mr.Kick is working with that. He’s been working closely with Mr. Eby to identify the areas to improve and expand upon,” Bennett Wutkee, vice principal, said.
The inspiration for the creation of the website came from the administration who “requested a new look and interface for the school website. Mr. Eby and I met and discussed what the new site should contain,” Kick said.
Although Wutkee hasn’t had much involvement in the design of the new website, he is excited to see how it will turn out in the future.
“I really hope that it can be a nice, easy to navigate website. I just think that websites are great tools for obtaining information,” Wutkee said. “So I’m really hopeful that the website will be a useful tool to communicate with students.”
Kick and Eby are trying to achieve something they didn’t have on their last website: cleanliness.
“The purpose of the new website is to just make it cleaner, so you’re not trying to see so many things on the page at once, you can know what you’re looking for, find it and get there really quickly,” Wutkee said.
Carly Adams, Dean of Activities, and Wutkee have been receiving lots comments about the new website from all the staff and students on campus.
“There has been a lot of comments on the new website like where is this and where is that. People had just gotten use to the old website and so they’re trying to find the same information they knew where to find before,” Wutkee said. “People are getting use to it and I think people might understand why the change was necessary and they are looking forward to see site running up to its potential.”
With new advancements to technology and people continuing to make their websites better, the new website is bound to become more advanced and better throughout the years it will have at NPHS.
“The community and their ability to access the information will inspire future modifications of the site. Software development is an iterative process. Major software producers are updating software that they initially produced decades ago,” Kick said. “We at NPHS will certainly continue that iterative process to best meet the needs of the community.”
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