Category: Daycare Website Templates

Many of our clients are taking advantage of adding a careers page to their website for several reasons such as:

1. The child care business can list their current job openings and their application process
2. Interested applicants can submit an inquiry, upload their resume, and indicate what position they are interested in
3. It streamlines the application process for the child care owner and reduces time answering phone calls and walk-ins.
4. It’s free advertising for your job opportunities and people visiting your site can share it with others they know might be interested.
5. Child care owners can share your Careers page on your Facebook page for even more exposure.

We regularly install these types of pages for our clients.  Here are a few you can review:

http://wacommunitychildcare.com/careers.html

http://oakleafkidsacademy.com/careers.html

Many of our clients need to target clients who speak languages other than English and in the past, this meant we had to create multiple pages with duplicate content in various languages. It was highly inefficient and time consuming to update content but that is no longer necessary with Google Translate.

Now, you can install this Google widget on any page of your website that needs to have the option to change the language.  Here is an example of a site we created with the widget installed:  http://creativecarecs.com.  This particular client only needed Spanish added so that’s the only option that appears when you click the down arrow by the Google menu.  However, Google allows you to select as many languages as you need.

Here’s the link to get started with Google Translate:  https://translate.google.com/manager/website/add 

You will need to add your website address, choose a style for the widget, the languages, and a few other options. On the last step, they will provide you with a script that will need to be added to your website where you want the widget to appear.  Send this to your web developer or if you have a CMS / backend system for your website, you may be able to install this yourself.

You may be considering if you should, and how you would, add a video to your daycare website.  First, it is an excellent way to add a professional touch and an interactive feel to your homepage and can really set your site apart from your competitors.  Here are a few of our clients who are doing it right:

http://creativecarecs.com
http://crawlers2scholars.com

Here’s the best way to add video to your website:

1. If you don’t already have a social media video channel for your business, create one.  Most of my clients create a YouTube channel but you could also use a similar service like Vimeo.
2. You’ll want to upload any and all videos to your channel and make sure to add your keywords to the videos as the search engines include videos in their search results. Title your videos well as the titles will appear on the video on your website.
3. On the video settings, there is an area where you can copy the Video Embed code.  You can configure how large or small you want it but I think larger looks generally better and makes more of an impact.  Install this HTML code (or have your website company install) on your website. A few tips: Don’t set it to “autoplay” as this can be an annoyance to your visitors and set it so that it does not play suggested videos after it’s complete. I have found that most of the time, it displays some videos that you wouldn’t necessarily want playing on your website.

Good luck and if you’re not already a customer, we hope to be doing business with you soon!

We are so happy to announce that our integrated Photo Gallery was recently updated to address some valuable feedback from our customers.  Our customers wanted the ability to have multiple albums within their photo gallery, for the photo gallery to be mobile responsive, easier navigation through the photos and the ability to easily and quickly upload lots of photos at once to the back end system.

Here is a live client site with the new photo gallery installed:  http://milesofsmilesdaycare.com/photos.html

Our upgraded photo gallery is included in our Professional Child Care Website Setup Package but can also be added on to our other setup packages at an additional fee.

If you’re not already a customer, we hope to be working with you soon!

Our clients ask us very often: “I want to add a live, interactive calendar to my site that lets people view our upcoming events and important dates.  What’s the best way to do that?”

Answer:  “Google Calendar!”

First, here’s a sample site with the Google Calendar installed:
http://jmackids.com/schedules.html

The beauty of this tool (other than it being free!) is that you manage your Google Calendar from your desktop / mobile device and the website updates automatically.  You don’t have to go to your website after you update your calendar – it’s instant.  Nice!

To install, just create your Google Calendar and on the left, beside your calendar name, you’ll see an option to “Share this calendar.”  On the next screen, click on the “Calendar details” tab at the top and you’ll see the iframe script there in the “Embed this Calendar” section.  (You can customize the color, size, etc in that spot too.)

Take that code and login to your website CMS.  Click where you want it and hit the HTML button.  Paste in that iFrame code and then preview the page to see if you need to do any resizing.

Don’t forget, you can always contact us for support!