CES is a partner that hears you, and understands education and educational organizations.

Our approach is consultative. We work in close collaboration with your organization and your team to identify and clarify your goals, so that your site is truly tailored to convey your unique identity. With extensive expertise in user-friendly, accessible, and mobile responsive design; your site will reflect up-to-the minute best practices.

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CES offers design, development, and hosting services for websites and web applications to schools, school districts, and community organizations of all kinds.

With deep expertise in Drupal and WordPress development, you’ll find we can bring you rapid, customized design and deployment at a cost-effective price.

A consistent multi-site design for a multiple entity organization

(such as a school district)

We specialize in customized solutions:

A site that complies with 508 accessibility requirements

and is mobile-responsive

Easier content management and solid training for your

contributors and editors

Are you looking for a more effective web presence?

A site designed to accommodate updates and improvements as

well as safety and security

A clean, user-friendly design that gives you room to grow

your site as your needs evolve

Functionality that offers calendars, news updates,

and searchable events

Cost-effective website hosting, and time-saving design and development

FIRST, WE LISTEN.

You will find CES to be a partner that is:

Flexible

Cost-effective

Collaborative

Experienced and skilled

CES Web Services include:

Website Development

Website Design

Content Management Systems (Drupal, WordPress)

Responsive Design

Domain and Website Hosting

Website Accessibility / Usability evaluation

Training

Solution Architecture

Greenfield Public Schools

The Greenfield Public School district wanted a multi-site design that was

easy to navigate, attractive, and accessible to students, families, community and staff; included

expanded calendar features; and integrated social media. They needed a website that would do a better job

at helping them connect with their community. At the same time, the site was to provide students with a

“hub” that gives them quick access to resources, tools, email, and more.

The existing district website was not friendly for browsing or searching, and

was not mobile-responsive. It was dependent on Dreamweaver software, making it difficult to add or train new content contributors; and teachers in

the district had their own sites, hosted at multiple locations and services.

The school district chose to completely redesign their multi-site web presence,

in order to create a universal, consistent look and feel between the

district, schools, and teacher sites.

The new GPS website included a design that was easy to navigate

and accessible to students, families, community and staff; included

expanded calendar features; and integrated social media. The new

design, with the use of more photography throughout, reflects the learning and activities at Greenfield

Public Schools using a fresh approach.

“The site design reflects the process of community engagement, including 203 participants in the Communications Survey, the Superintendent’s listening session, and also a trial session at Greenfield High School. The new website

has gotten great response.”

— Jordana Harper, Superintendent Greenfield Public Schools

CLIENT SNAPSHOT

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www.gpsk12.org

Early Educator Pathways

The Pioneer Valley Educational Readiness Center wanted to create a new website that offered clear, easy to navigate, current information to help early educators find the best options and advice for advancing their careers in early education and care; by pursuing recognized credentials and college degrees. The site needed to be easy to maintain and keep accurate, with extensive information from colleges and partner organizations.

TPERC talked with other web development vendors about their idea, but found them prohibitively expensive and felt they offered an off-the shelf template approach. “You can spend a lot of money and not get what you want. You have to be really clear what you’re looking for in working with web development vendors,” said Kay Lisseck, Executive Director of PERC.

“I appreciated working with someone who is a really good listener. He heard what we wanted, and went off and built it, and was able to accommodate our learning

curve along the way.”

— Kay Lisseck, Executive Director Pioneer Valley Readiness Center

CLIENT SNAPSHOT

Travis Johnston of CES started with deep discussions with Kay about her ideas and goals. This led to a detailed sitemap proposal and a deep content outline for the website that would offer easy searching and navigation. The content and site development process was iterative, with more consultations and adjustments along the way, until both felt that the site design achieved its goals.

PERC’s college partners on the project looked at the website, and felt it was intuitive and easy to use. The Readiness Center also found the user training hugely helpful in their ability to easily make changes to the content on the site themselves. When the site was shared with other Readiness Centers across the Commonwealth, they were also excited about the potential of the design. The statewide network of Readiness Centers have approved and contracted for a project to expand on the PERC Pathways site to build a multi-site network statewide, with

regional pathways for each major region.

earlyeducatorpathways.org/

CES Technology Services Collaborative for Educational Services 97 Hawley Street, Northampton, MA 01060 413.586.4900 | technology@collaborative.org

Everyone is a learner

To request a call or ask for a proposal, please contact:

Travis Johnston

Web Systems Architect

413.586.4900 x5930

tjohnston@collaborative.org

“Your website can be a major stepping stone in

making your organization a success. To accomplish

that goal, I believe it’s important to work with someone

that is knowledgeable and passionate enough to help

you create an effective and accessible website that is

more than just another project. I try to provide that

kind of support to our partners.”

For more information please visit us at:

collaborative.org/web-dev

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