The Finalsite Blog

Recruiting quality teachers will only get harder with a projected shortage in the coming years. Following the three tips in this blog will help ensure you are attracting the best, most-qualified candidates. 

Finalsite offers more than 30 Theme design websites created for schools working on a tight budget or timeline. To help inspire you, we’ve come up with five tips based on our recent launches to help you get the most out of your theme design websites.

Finalsite is pleased to introduce Timed Page Pops as a part of our Inbound Marketing platform that allows you to delay pop-ups until you can safely gauge a visitor's interest based on time or distance scrolled down a page.

Finalsite has partnered with OpenApply to leverage the core strengths of each platform to drive applicants through a refined admissions funnel, saving time and money while connecting your school to additional families.

If you want your district’s webmasters to feel excited and prepared about getting and keeping your website’s content up-to-date, you’ll want to follow these eight tips.

The American School in London (ASL) continues to hold a leading reputation among international schools around the world with thousands of global daily site visitors. Learn how ASL updated their homepage to make use of images, interactive elements, and clear messaging to reflect their mission of an outstanding American education with a global perspective. 

In this first installation of our blog series “Competing with Free,” we spoke to Northwest Catholic High School  to learn  how they stay competitive and successful when competition with public school is challenging as public education is perceived to be free. 

Here’s our 5-step guide on how you can combine Forms Manager, Payment Manager, and Finalsite Payments to create a streamlined, powerful payment process that supports payments from virtually anyone around the world.

And while there are plenty of incredible things districts are doing to keep their community in the loop, there still seems to be some bad habits lurking in the background that you should nix immediately.

Now is the perfect time to get a head start on creating your perfect summer camp and programs website. To help get your creative juices flowing, we’ve come up with nine tips to help you along the website design and creation process. 

Inevitably, a current or prospective client will ask us: Why should I use a proprietary system like Finalsite instead of Open Source? Let’s take a deep dive into some of the key areas that show why Finalsite is often the superior choice.

A content offer is the bread and butter of your school's inbound strategy. Here's how to get started.

Publications offers a whole suite of exciting features and options to elevate your Posts content to the next level with enhanced creation, organization, functionality, and interactivity. To help get you started, we’ve selected some of our favorite features that we know you’ll enjoy.

The best time to start planning a summer website launch is now. Here’s the recommended timeline to ensure you launch your website by summertime.

Content migration is inevitable in almost every website redesign. However, this process can easily switch from being the easiest part of the redesign process to the most daunting — especially if you end up waiting until the last minute to do so. 

Making website design and content more accessible for every user is something we see as the right thing to do. In an effort to ensure we continue to lead on accessibility, we’re excited to share with you some of our recent additions to the accessibility feature set on the Finalsite Platform.

International and boarding schools can combine Finalsite Payments and the Personalization element in Composer to save time and improve the user experience for every family by automatically adjusting web page and payment gateway information to each country, currency, and language. 

Planning a redesign soon? Here are five ways to make sure your content is the driving force behind your website design, and not the other way around.

Can't seem to get everything done in your workweek? If you’re looking for ways to save time and improve your current communications, you’re going to want to make time to read these ten tips.

In this episode of "Strategize Like a Boss with Mia Major", Mia is joined by Aaron Schorn to discuss the power of authentic content and involving your students to help tell your school's story.

Creating a storyline is the key to cohesive messaging that shares your story across platforms and markets. Learn top tips from partner agency Sametz Blackstone on how to guide your efforts. 

Philomath School District launched their new website this week, with an improved user experience and accessible design.

Finding the right job titles and office structure of a marketing communications office can be challenging. Learn more about new titles and office arrangements that work for private schools. 

More than 80 websites launched between August and September. Here are just some of our favorites.

Shanghai American School's new best-in-class website is built on the importance of authenticity and community. Read the story behind this international school's epic redesign.

With twenty-five awards in ten months, our design team’s award count is about to turn 100 — and we couldn’t be more excited! See who made the list.

To ensure your website visitors get a website navigation experience that seamlessly gets them from point A to point B, avoid making the following seven mistakes.

A well-thought-out navigation can help you to improve your website's user experience and meet your goals. Give one of these navigation experiences a shot during your next website redesign!

LinkedIn can help schools engage parents, alumni and faculty in a more professional manner than on other social media channels.

Personalization makes it easy to dynamically change how users view and interact with your school’s website through targeted, personalized content that increases engagement, time spent on the website, and conversions through inquiries and donations. 

Facebook allows schools to reach prospective and current students where they are already spending their time, interacting with family, friends, and brands, keeping up with news, sharing content, and more. And recently, Facebook’s updated algorithms have created a place where schools can have meaningful interactions with its followers.

A site’s navigation contains the tools we provide the user to move through the site, finding information and accomplishing tasks. Follow these seven steps to build an easy-to-use navigation on your school website.

Finalsite is launching Messages as the successor to eNotify that features a whole suite of new features and options. To help get you started, we’ve outlined 10 key improvements and additions we’ve made that we know you’ll quickly wonder how you ever got by without them.

These three international schools recently launched some impressive new websites. Be inspired by some of their features in this blog.

Use these 8 strategies to grow your school's Twitter profile now (with new examples!)

Millennials are philanthropic and willing to donate their time and money to organizations they care about but also have more debt, and lower incomes than previous generations. Engaging them on their terms and overcoming common objections to affordability, ease of giving, and worthiness of your cause will reap big rewards. 

In this week's episode of Website Fixer Upper, I share the importance of "thank you" pages in the admissions funnel, and how to create one using Finalsite Composer.

It’s no surprise that Google is stealing the show with millennials. It’s presenting content about you on your behalf, before the viewers even get a chance to click on your site. Here are three things you need to know.

In this blog, we share proven strategies for creating copy that gets read, and is relevant and valuable to millennial moms and dads.

Learn why video matters, the different types of video your school should use, and how to use video to attract and recruit millennials.

With 50% of millennials using social media to research products and brands prior to purchase, and another 30% of millennials engaging with brands at least once a month, social media is where millennials spend a lot of their time. And making the most of that time is critical to your success in attracting and engaging millennial parents.