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About Ascend

Quick-Start templates are a great option for schools interested in launching a site on an accelerated timeline or for schools who are unable to commit resources to a full-scale Web design project. This guide will help you select the template that best fits your school’s brand and online communication goals.

All quick-start templates are built with onMessage’s responsive Web design (RWD) functionality, enabling the school’s site to scale and reposition for optimal display on each user’s device. The general explanation for how this works is that design elements such as photos or main navigation shrink proportionally from the full width of a large desktop monitor to an iPad display. On devices smaller than an iPad, continually shrinking features would render them too small to read or click, so the system switches from scaling to repositioning. 
The repositioning prioritizes elements from top to bottom, left to right, so a full-size design with a logo in the uppermost left corner will feature this graphic at the very top on the phone display. Media query settings in the CSS code are also used to control where items display at various screen sizes. Due in part to these settings, changes to quick-start templates in the design process are limited to logos, colors and fonts, and any requests for structural modifications may incur additional charges.
 

The Ascend Template

The Ascend theme is a minimal, modern design featuring a concealed menu. When a user interacts with the menu icon, a prominent full-page menu surfaces.

Things to Think About

  • Like any site it's important to focus on keeping your menu structure as minimal and focused as possible, so that users have an easy time exploring the site via the navigation. This is especially important with the full browser menu panel in this theme.
  • The right side of the menu panel is not relegated to address and social media; you can include call to action buttons, upcoming events, or any other content piece you'd like to highlight. Be aware of the limited real estate and be sure to save space!
  • The styles included in this theme offer optimized presentation options for specific content types. If you're adding downloads, a bulleted list, a grid of content, or any other content piece, look for the style option designed for that content!
  • The "INT: Row" styles provide more options to organize content into sections on a page. Consider how changing the background of certain rows can help further organize each page's content strategy.

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