Interactive Sticky Ideas for School Websites
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Stick around to see how sticky pages can bring people back to your school Website. Here are some examples to get you started.
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Sticky Pages
Keep your readers on
your site by building
Sticky Web Pages.
Actually there are many ways to keep your visitors "hanging around" and coming back for more. Creating good design and appropriate content are the obvious and best methods.
However, including an assortment of "interactive" pages in your Website will improve visitor loyalty, increase time-on-site, and promote return visits.
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As an example, here are some sample interactive pages to illustrate what we mean.
- Silly Story - Practice for Parts of Speech
Elementary kids (our students) love silly things. Here is a [very] short story that was written by a third-grader. The first page asks for the student to enter a variety of Parts of Speech. The second page inserts those "new" parts of speech into the original story, making it a mixed-up, Silly Story. Kids (and some adults) like to do this again and again and again and...
- Social Studies from the Sky - Satellite Views of Places in the United States
Students and Teachers, alike, enjoy viewing place they already know about-but from a different angle. Using Google Maps® technology, this page presents a dozen (or so) unique views of "famous" places across our country. See views from Mount St. Helens to the Statue of Liberty to an Airplane Graveyard in Arizona, and more...
- What's the Weather - Everybody Looks at the Weather
Here is an example of a truly "sticky" page. Everybody is curious about the weather, whether is in their own home town or yours. A weather page on your School (or other) Website will attract attention.
- How To Page - Instructions for Your Website
In the spirit of sharing, we have provided this page of instructions. Here you can learn how to include some of these "Sticky Page" examples in your own Website.
- There is much to do. Get busy. Time's a-wasting.
It is already Wednesday, March 10, 2010.
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