What makes Editing Sweet

Busy teachers and impatient pupils can update their sites in a flash with this tool for any school

The News of the World isn't the only organisation with Editor problems at the moment. Most schools in the UK who have a website seem to have one, judging by the lack of updating of school sites I've seen.

That's because updating one's own website is damned hard work. Even keeping one blog going this past year in between a mountain of project work, client visits, marketing, and thinking up ideas clever enough to justify my title, has been problematic. I run a couple of sites, plus a FB and Twitter account and have to plan in times, usually in the wee hours, to post something new. That's pretty unsocial media.

Teachers are in a similar boat. One of the things punters outside education never seem to understand is that, if you take your teaching job seriously, it inevitably requires evenings of hard graft when you're already completely knackered from being with kids for seven hours straight. Not to mention dealing with staff meetings, parents, TA's and the occasional psychotic OFSTED rep. It's actually a kind of stress that most CEOs would never cope with.

Consequently, fitting in time to update your school site is a fairly low priority. But it still has to be done. And that's why the Paperhorse's Coding Guru, Peter Clements, has excelled himself in creating a piece of software that makes it easy for teachers and pupils to edit any school website. In an strangely eloquent moment we've called it the Easy Editor. And it's now available to all our clients.

My current record for logging in and updating a page on a website is thirty-four seconds. Actually, we're opening up speed trials with primary pupils soon and I'm willing to bet they'll wipe the floor up with my paltry efforts, too. I'll let you know.

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