Polaris K-12 School Website

The 2010 Yearbook Committee has given us a link to the order page for the 2010 Polaris K-12 yearbook and suggested that we add the link to the Parent Forum Website.  And how could we refuse such a great request?

So from now on you can simply click on the “Order Your Yearbook!” link under the [...]

OK — I promise this is my last website-related updated.  School starts tomorrow(!) and I’m sure we’ll be back to our usual schedule of more scholastically interesting posts.  But I did want to make sure I let everybody know that the site has a new contact page.  You get there by clicking the Contact Us! [...]

Polaris K-12 
Annual Ice Cream
 Social
Friday August 21, 2009

Starts at 4:30pm
 and ends at 6:00pm
The Ice Cream Social is a great way to start a new year…catch up with old friends and make new ones.
We will be in the multi-purpose room.

Please note the change in times for [...]

So if you were receiving email updates from the Polaris K-12 website … you now aren’t. As mentioned in the last post, I’ve moved us over to Google’s excellent FeedBurner service. On the plus side, this is a much more robust system for delivering email notifications.  On the downside, there was no easy [...]

So I’m working on a few very nice websites upgrades for 2009.  A few highlights include:

A much more robust email subscription system
An events calendar
A more “Polaris-y” look and feel

During the next week things may look a little funny, but I’ll try to keep the site up.  Note that email notification definitely won’t work while I’m [...]

So I really, really, really meant to get the website upgraded during the summer when the whole school wasn’t watching.  But you’re all Alaskans and you know how it is with Alaskan summers.  There’s never enough time to get everything done — especially boring indoor stuff like upgrading websites.

But at least I didn’t get too far [...]

I just upgraded the site software and it broke our current theme. I have a bit of tweaking to do and we should be as good as (or better than) new in a couple of days.

Geoff, Kittie,

I spoke with both of you about having the Polaris Business list here on our web site. It would be a place for parents to share their business affiliation. This may be of interest or usefulness to the community. I was thinking that a form with specific fields to enter would be easy and have it sorted apha by business name. Fields could be; Business name, Parent name, parent title, business address, phone number, email, web address, brief comment line. I would like to know which area business are associated with Polaris and be happy to patronize them as such. Of course this is volutary and reviewed by the monitor.

Hey fellow Polarents!

I just upgraded the software driving the Polaris site. Please let me know if you experience problems. The upgrades included a new rev of the Events module — so now we have a summary calendar in the right sidebar. It also includes both search functionality and a block that allows you to filter stories by category.

I’ve also started a new “Handy Links” block. Right now I have just one, but please just let me, Beth Adams or Kitte’ Miller know if you’d like to see others there.

I’ve also taken the liberty to improve the look and feel of the site. I added a new theme that I think is a bit more in keeping with the spirit of the school.