[mtrawls]

I assume the school is responsible for the text and all, but an introduction on the main page would be nice, -- to orient the viewer and what not. The student handbook link goes to a page saying, "HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found". On a lot of pages with pictures, text either is over the picture, making it hard to read, or under the picture making it impossible to read (e.g., the teachers' webpages page, which might be helpful if sorted by grade/subject too). Then several pages link to different template types of pages, many of which don't inclue ways to get back (short of actually clicking the back button on the browser ... but as any usability guru would tell you, a lot of parents aren't "tech savy"). I very much dislike the iBook training documents page, ... it isn't immediately obvious that you are downloading pdf documents (sure you have a warning, but under a much more flashy design), and it isn't easy to orient yourself to figure out all the options quickly and which one you might need (e.g., Getting started isn't even first, and troubleshooting is darn near last).

But, discouting other usabilty concerns, the site isn't all bad. I just like to complain a lot. Of course, "look" should be your last concern, since you presumably want the site to be useful ... the best way to do this is to find a group of students and a group of parents to navigate the site looking for specific items that are of interest to them, and see how long it takes them to find it and how satisfactory the item explanation is. I would suggest, though, that the "Student resources", "Parent resources", etc., menu options link to pages describing their respective menu items, instead of just to the main page which is counterintuitive and not all that useful.