A web studio for schools, for deciding parents and looking-something-up parents.

No, and this is the thinnest proof of any industry we publish, so we will be blunt about it. The work shown here is from other sectors, chosen for the mechanics an institution needs: a 500-plus page content system run by one in-house editor, a content-heavy site rebuilt without losing its traffic, and a platform built so a large organisation could publish at pace without engineering in the loop. Everything on this page is either a technique from one of those published projects or ordinary design practice. If an education portfolio is what you are buying, several school website design companies specialise in exactly that and will show you one.

Usually the architecture and the publishing workflow, not the visuals. Almost every institutional site tries to serve a deciding parent and a current parent with one structure, and almost every one routes publishing through a single person in the office. Splitting the first and distributing the second is most of the improvement — the redesign people notice is the smaller half.

Usually yes, and the aim is to route into what you already run rather than replace it. The integration pattern is the same one we build for any system of record — conditional forms adapting to the enquiry, routed with the right owner and immediate notification, which is what we built for Metroplex Homebuyers. Which system you use changes the work, not whether it is possible.

We build to WCAG 2.1 AA as standard — semantic structure, keyboard operation, contrast, focus states, real alternative text and accessible documents. What we do not do is certify you. A formal audit by an accessibility specialist is a separate exercise, and an institution should budget for one; building it in first makes that audit cheap rather than a rebuild.

That is the design constraint from the first day rather than a promise at the end. Templates instead of free-form pages, so a department head cannot accidentally break a layout; a workflow that does not depend on one person; and training at handover for the people who will actually publish, not for whoever attends the meeting.

Same method, much larger governance. Higher education website design adds faculties publishing independently, research output, international recruitment and a great many stakeholders — so the design system and the permissions model carry more weight than the page designs do. The two-visit split still holds; it just becomes several.

Norml publishes its rates on Clutch — $50–$99 per hour with a $5,000 project minimum. A full engagement covering architecture, design system, templates and build sits well above that minimum. We scope after discovery, because the page count follows the departments and programmes. For a small school on a tight budget, a specialist education platform may genuinely be the better buy, and we will say so.

Your staff run it — that is what the handover and the training are for. When an institution would rather not, Norml Care covers updates, monitoring and small changes monthly.