Apropos School Website

As we all suspected, there was a school web-site (rather a web-page) that was set up some time back.... it is now defunct! And unfortunately, the domain name www.pdps.com and www.pdps.net are no longer available.

Now that the school authorities know about this, they are working on making another website for the school. And I feel really honored that we, the alumni, have been asked for our suggestions, and can actually contribute at this stage to the school! This I think is a great idea since we can now step in with our suggestions in full force. For a while now the alumni group has been pretty active - the success of which I must attribute to the youngsters who have recently matriculated from school- so the time is ripe to throw our hats in the ring too!

To begin with, I guess the site should cover the basics like every site does:
a) History of the school
b) Academics & School structure (which is PDPS's strength)- this can include syllabus for classes, an academic calendar, information about houses, honor board etc.
c) Prospectus & Admissions Information
d) Current happenings in the school- from the current student point of view - can include school tours, class picnics, any other events taking place in school, new ideas given by students for any activity etc
e) Details about Staff Members & Teachers
f) Extra Curricular Activities - A special section needs to be devoted to this since our school children win a lot of competition in a variety of fields
g) School's involvement in social activities - if there are not many activities that we are actively involved in, then we should start getting children involved.
h) Online Bandwagon (e-version of our school magazine - now defunct, but efforts to revitalize which are on!)
i) Student's Academic Progress (parents can log in to check their ward's progress report)
j) Alumni News (yes yes..we should be there as well!!). This can be added as a 'Class Notes' section where information about alumni can be updated by one chosen Class correspondent for each class (e.g. I can volunteer for the batch of 1994)
k) Details on individual Conferences, alumni meet, fete etc etc etc
l) Last, but not the least, Discussion forum for current students on any topic they wish to ask teachers, alumni or other fellow students with a special section devoted to career counseling!

To my mind, the last section serves the most important role else the site is nothing but a motley of a whole lot of only sometimes useful stuff!

Hope we can have a lot to contribute here!

Cheers!
Anshu
Medical '94