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Powerful web publishing without the complexity.
Rapid Web Designer (RWD) is a robust and easy-to-use solution for managing web publishing across organizations or school districts. With RWD, the overall design and management of the website is centrally controlled to ensure brand consistency across all web properties within an organization. Within education environments, RWD can manage and control websites across an entire school district, including individual school, class, and teacher sites. For businesses, RWD offers centralized control of all corporate websites and web pages across distributed offices including franchises, subsidiaries, and more.
RWD provides a suite of tools that enables non-technical users to easily publish fresh, relevant content within the website framework without the requirement of any knowledge of HTML.
RWD has been a product for nearly five years and is employed by over 120 school districts around the world to deliver high quality, centrally managed websites.
RWD Value Propositions
RWD Value Proposition |
Reasoning |
Excellence |
Increases the functionality of FirstClass by adding common web elements to the page that are easily controllable and dramatically extend the capability of FirstClass native web pages. The programming behind RWD is sound and yields professional results, even to novice users. |
Uniformity |
Central control of format, colors, fonts, etc. can enforce a uniformity across a group of sites. Individuality is a double edged sword; too much autonomy can lead to a situation where there is little or no adherence to a common set of standards. A school or district 'brand' is an important element of unity and identity. |
Accuracy |
Centrally created and maintained content ensures that the content is authoritative and not subject to interpretation, error, or non-compliance. |
Efficiency |
Tremendous labor savings through central control of format and content - True Collaboration! Web builders need only concentrate on that which is unique to their site and do not have to replicate the work required to build and maintain that which is common. This represents true collaboration - to an even greater degree than that which occurs when different people create different pages; in RWD every page is a collaborative effort. |
Flexibility |
Because all sites are governed centrally, changes can be made across huge numbers of sites instantly both in content and format. |
Consistency |
Even though each page has content that is unique, the basic structure of all pages in a domain is essentially the same. Across grades, parents can expect a large degree of similarity between class sites as their child advances. |
Spontaneity |
Pages can be added very quickly and changed immediately without the traditional webmaster bottleneck. |
Safety |
Broadcasts can be made to all pages in a site to warn of dangers or emergency. In the case of emergency, the feature is accompanied with an audible alarm and the broadcast is present on all pages, regardless of the system settings. |
Simplicity |
No HTML is required and, the basic RWD builder form is even simpler than RWD Lite to use because most of the formatting comes from the Administrator. Even if a user is allowed to override an administrator setting, if they do not make a change to a field or value (either because they choose not to or because the control is hidden from them), the page takes the administrator value by default almost ensuring a working page from the start. |
Complicity |
Because it is simple to use and provides amazing results, people will USE it! |
Scalability |
As user skills increase, more advanced forms can be given to them to unlock more of the power of RWD. |
Accessibility |
The Screen reader friendly formatting capability of RWD goes a long way toward meeting the needs of the visually impaired. |
Economy |
RWD leverages existing FirstClass training and paradigms. The content for the sites is already largely there in FirstClass and there need be less re-creation of content than in traditional models. No knowledge of HTML is required and no other web development software need be purchased and taught. Hodgepodge of outside services / hosting is replaced by a coherent and managed alternative. |
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