Germiston High School
Germiston
Reusable platform for school websites
School Website Platform
The system behind the Die Fakkel site, made reusable: one codebase that produces a complete, branded school website from a single configuration file per school.
- Project
- Reusable platform for school websites
- Services
- Web development, Engineering
- Status
- Concept builds
- Website
- Previews below
The brief
What itneeded to do
Many schools have websites that are years out of date or have lapsed entirely. Building each one from scratch is slow and expensive. The goal was a platform that keeps each school’s own identity, colours, crest, history and photographs while sharing the engineering underneath.
What we built
Under the hood
01
One template, many schools
Each school is a configuration file of colours, crest, content and photographs. The platform produces the full site from it.
02
Grounded content
Every fact and photograph is sourced from the school’s own published material and press coverage, with the sources recorded alongside.
03
Validation & QA
Scripts check each school’s configuration and run quality checks on empty and fully loaded sites before anything is built.
04
Demo dashboard
A dashboard lists every school build so they can be previewed side by side.
The sites
Five schools,one platform.
These are concept builds made to show each school what a modern site could look like. They are not the schools’ official websites, and each is clearly marked as a concept.
Laerskool Suidheuwels
South Hills, Johannesburg
Mondeor High School
Mondeor, Johannesburg
Mondeor Primary School
Mondeor, Johannesburg
Townsview Primary School
Townsview, Johannesburg
Highlights
Five concept sites built on the platform
Each school keeps its own identity
Shared portal and admin engineering from Die Fakkel
