This creation was made for a client as part of the Web Design course in the 2nd year of Infographics at HEPL.
The PLAI (Liège Pole for Support towards Inclusive Education) website aims to support teaching staff and pupils with special educational needs. It is primarily aimed at primary and secondary school teachers who are partners of the pole.
There were a lot of constraints to comply with. Firstly, in terms of functionality, the homepage had to be translated into Easy-to-Read and Easy-to-Understand (FALC) format. There had to be a public part of the site for parents, containing only general information, and an education space, accessible only to teaching staff via access and login request forms.
The teacher enters their institutional email address, selects the city and the school using the FASE number. The administrator can accept or reject requests directly in the WordPress admin panel. The teacher can then log in to access more detailed information about the PLAI’s missions and awareness-raising campaigns, as well as the resources they can download after taking part in the activities. They can also contact the PLAI representative assigned to their school.
The client had also set a few design constraints. The text had to be in a sans-serif font, and the logo was not to be modified. Although he didn’t necessarily want to see a lot of pink on the site, I still wanted to incorporate elements from the logo, which is pink. I therefore chose to incorporate this colour anyway, adding green and blue in roughly equal proportions throughout the site, while ensuring that the accessibility standards for contrast were respected.
For the text, as the main target audience is teachers, the website needed to have a clean, professional look; however, I still wanted to include a reference to children by using a more playful font for the headings, without going into excess, bearing in mind that the colours also helped to reinforce this aspect.
The logo also contains an arrow, which I found very interesting to use in different ways, for links and lists, for example.
With all my projects, I always face the same challenge: finding inspiration when I already know what I want to do. On top of that, I really struggled with managing access and login requests. The teacher had created a plugin for us for this purpose, but it didn’t suit me, so I decided to implement everything myself.
I certainly lost a considerable amount of time on this part of the site, but I learnt a lot by doing everything myself and working my way through the documentation on my own. It also meant I ended up with a 100% customised site and a WordPress admin interface that I felt comfortable working with, without adding any constraints on top of those set by the client.
I also had to figure out how to import incomplete data from an Excel file, to avoid having to fill in hundreds of fields by hand, which also gave me quite a few cold sweats.
