Weebly is Bae. Personally didn't get along with Wix, but I last used Wix over 7 years ago, and much may have changed. I personally loved Weebly and found it very intuitive and easy to manage, and was also able to do quick edits on my phone when I needed to quickly correct something.
Increasingly, a website for your troupe is another essential tool to include in your theatre program. Most parents and students will first hear about you and then research you online before coming out to anything, as I discovered! We definitely had an increase in involvement when we had an online presence. We also had a link to online ticket purchases, what our upcoming shows were, details about summer camp, as well as past production photos (a very popular area of the site).
Whilst it is a small pain in the bum and yet another job title to add to Theatre Teacher/Troupe Director/Technical Manager/Coach/Cat Herder/Website Manager, it is worth the time and effort to look at and get established, and you've got some absolutely wonderful examples to look at in this thread!
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Phillip Goodchild
Theatre Arts Instructor
Etobicoke ON
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Original Message:
Sent: 12-14-2017 09:50
From: Elizabeth Rand
Subject: Good School Theatre Web sites - Recommendations?
What a great idea to get high school students thinking about a school theatre website! There's such a wide discrepancy in high school theatre websites, from "Gold Standard" to non-existent.
School theatre websites are important to have for a variety of reasons and uses. In fact, one of the assignments for the students (high school Drama teachers, in this case) in my online Theatre Management class is to create a functional and useful website outline for their school theatre, or to come up with ideas to improve their existing websites. (We don't get into the technical side of creating a website, we primarily address content.) They all do awesome jobs, so I'll pass this on to the students from the recently ended session, and suggest they contact you with their information and ideas.
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Beth Rand, EBMS
High School Theatre Operations Coach
Next HS Theatre Management Training for Drama Teachers online course: Winter Session starts Jan. 15 (limited to 8 students).
Author of "High School Theatre Operations" and "The High School Theatre Safety Manual" and several more books on Amazon and also at http://www.presett.org/helpful-books-for-you.html.
www.PRESETT.org
Westminster, CO
Original Message:
Sent: 12-07-2017 08:53
From: Rosalind Flynn
Subject: Good School Theatre Web sites - Recommendations?
Does your school have a good web site for students, families, the community to access?
Do you know of a good one that another school has?
I am looking for examples for my students, so please feel free to respond with a link or two!
Thanks.
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Rosalind Flynn
Head of the M.A. in Theatre Education
The Catholic University of America
Washington, DC
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