McKinney Boyd High School

Website Redesign Project

Presented by members of the project from Computer Science 3 class

Jeffrey Wang

Project Manager

Our current website

For the past 10 years, McKinney Boyd High School has had the same website, dedicated to providing students, parents, and teachers access to information and resources. Raise your hand if you’ve used it.

Over time, this website has become outdated and slow. As part of the 10 year anniversary, we have decided that it’s time to completely overhaul the website and rebuild it from scratch, improving the speed, quality, and design.

We’d love to show it to you now.

Video time!

It is now my pleasure to introduce Andrew Oakes, our Lead Designer.

Andrew Oakes

Lead Designer

So… here it is!

It is with great pride for me to say that the new website was built completely by students from Boyd's Computer Science 3 class. We designed and built the website with modern standards, and the usability that comes with it. My goal as Lead Designer was to combine elegant designs with maximum usability. Something missing from our old website was a mobile version for smartphones and tablets, making it difficult to view important information; however now, our website is responsive to your device’s screen size.

We used contrasting colors on the Bronco color palate and intuitive organization to showcase important elements on the page, so that the users can easily locate each feature our development team has implemented.

For example, all of our resources have been combined into one central location for students, teachers, and parents to access when they need to, and we’ve added “Quick Links” to the navigation bar so you can access things like the APG, Canvas, HAC, Destiny, Naviance, and of course, the McKinney ISD website.

My favorite design idea was brought about by the difficulty many parents had with the current faculty and staff pages. Our lead designer Justin Potts will later show you how we completely renovated how users look for teachers.

But now, I’d love to bring out Jarod Norwood to talk a little bit about some new features we think you’ll love.

Jarod Norwood

Developer

My name is Jarod Norwood. I am a developer for the project.

Home page

I’m going to talk a little bit about some new features we’ve added as part of the redesign.

The first one is one of the first things you’ll see on the RSS feed. This allows you to see upcoming events and Boyd Spur headlines directly as they’re published, without having to visit two websites for information.

Resources

Parents want resources, and we want to make that easier with the new website. All of our resources have been combined into one central location for students, teachers, and parents to access when they need to, and we’ve added “Quick Links” to the navigation bar so you can access things like the APG, Canvas, HAC, Destiny, Naviance, and of course, the McKinney ISD website.

Don't know what you want? There's a search bar on every page now.

Bell schedule

We also updated the bell schedule for regular days...

Testing schedule

(Thanks Bora Gomez!)

...and finals week, making it easier to show where you’re supposed to be and when.

We’ll now have Justin Potts explain some more features.

Justin Potts

Lead Developer

News

• Justin Potts - Lead Developer
• RSS feed also added to news page

News

• This is where we showcase updates, news, and tweets from the Boyd Twitter account, as well as Dr. Peirson.
• With embedded Tweets, you never have to leave the site to see the latest information.

Bronco Beat

• Bronco Beat directly in your browser
• Never have to download another file again
• You can also subscribe right from this page and have them sent directly to your email.

New faculty directory

(Thanks Jeffrey Wang, Andrew Oakes, Scott McFarlane, Marvin Fuxa!)

• Favorite new features
• Addition of searching for faculty
• You can even search by partial matches, making it easier than ever before.
• No more looking through an endless list of names you don't recognize
• Finally have all the information in one place

Senior info

• And for our seniors
• We've organized all the information you'll need, right in one central location
• Prom and graduation information, and of course, a calendar, embedded right on the page

About us

• Finally, an about us page
• Decided to showcase the history of Boyd, right from its beginnings
• We've also included notable alumni, and awards from our academics, fine arts, atheletics, and clubs.
• Now I'd like to introduce Nicholas Roth to close.

Nicholas Roth

Designer

Check it out!

Visit new.mbhs.xyz to see the website. It's not official yet, but you can go ahead and get familiar with the design!

My name is Nicholas Roth, and I'm a designer for the project. The components and features of the new website that my classmates just showed you are just a few of the new features we’ve added, and we can’t wait for you to find some more on your own. Visit new.mbhs.xyz to see the website. It's not official yet, but you can go ahead and get familiar with the design!

Acknowledgements

• School principal: Dr. Jennifer Peirson
• Webmaster: Dr. JJ Ayers
• Faculty advisor (Computer Science teacher): Takeisha Moranza, MCS
• Project manager: Jeffrey Wang, Class of 2018
• Lead developer: Justin Potts, Class of 2016
• Quality assurance lead: Alex Meza, Class of 2017
• Lead designer: Andrew Oakes, Class of 2016

On behalf of all the team members who collaborated on the project, our faculty advisor Mrs. Moranza, our awesome principal Dr. Peirson, our webmaster Dr. Ayers, and all the organizations around the school who participated, we thank you for all of your support. (Keep going!)

Questions, comments, suggestions?

Please feel free to talk to us after this presentation!

or if you prefer to email us: jwang@mbhs.xyz

We can’t wait to hear what you think about it. Please feel free to ask us questions. Thank you for coming today!