Lee Media Group 200 W Douglas #777 Wichita,
KS67202 (316) 239-6466
AOSHS
Custom WordPress Membership Website for International Schools Historical Society
The American Overseas Schools Historical Society (AOSHS) collects, records, preserves, and exhibits memorabilia for closed, current, or newly opened American schools for military families overseas.
AOSHS came to us in need of a new interactive WordPress website that not only illustrates their mission to preserve history, but gives members and the public access to digital archives of artifacts, yearbooks, and member stories.
While AOSHS is headquartered in Wichita, KS, AOSHS Board Members are located throughout the nation. Our team held many calls and screen sharing meetings throughout the process to coordinate the progression of the project.
How We Helped
When they came to us, AOSHS had a very outdated website that was hindering the organization’s mission of expanding their online museum, online yearbooks, membership management, and the digitizing of all things memorabilia/history from closed or current American overseas schools.
We created a fresh, vibrant design featuring a new color palette and logotype for the new website from scratch on WordPress. The new website’s custom web development features include an online payment system, interactive map, virtual museum, searchable online yearbook database, and digital memorials section as well as reworked and reorganized SEO and keyword-rich content.
We later received compliments from the organization in regards to the new branding from the site. “It all began with your designs at Lee Media Group…our business identity has developed in the past year with the beginning of the new website design in Spring 2019.”
Custom Programming + Integrations
Yearbook archive with an interactive map that currently includes over 1,000 entries and 300 overseas school
Integration with Amazon AWS for file storage
Ecommerce with online payment feature for member dues donations
Memories section for members to write stories and experiences
Memorials section to view digital versions of dedicated memorial tiles
By the end of 2020, the website will also include a virtual museum that will allow visitors to check out the memorabilia that AOSHS has collected throughout the years
We also built a custom dashboardthat allows office staff to manage memberships, email members, view reports, send mass email alerts and reminders, and manage yearbooks as they are scanned
Client Testimonial
As the website overseer for American Overseas Schools Historical Society (AOSHS), we are very happy and satisfied with our choice of hiring Lee Media Group (LMG) to create for us a new website. We had a website that had stumbled for years from its creation in the 70’s to now. Initially it was good but we added and adapted over the years but never truly updated. LMG was always responsive and engaged in communicating with us throughout the process.
LMG worked with us on our unique non-profit corporation but more so wanted to understand our background, our artifacts and the international venue we represent as members and the Department of Defense Dependents Schools employees. LMG took our elements from the existing website, adapted them to the new and added the total facelift that was needed to catapult us to a worldwide audience to ‘preserve our legacy’. We continue to work with them so that our endeavors of digitization come to fruition as well as making our memorabilia and artifacts accessible to anyone.
It all began with your designs at Lee Media Group…
Our business identity has developed in the past year with the beginning of the new website design in Spring 2019 through this visual compilation. Our new logo/seal introduced last Fall, and logotype/color palette first introduced on our website is shown on the graphic through our online presentations via computer, mobile devices, and social media (Facebook).
This lead to the development of our new letterhead, return address labels and business card, followed by our Spring 2020 AOSHS Quarterly newsletter, package stickers (with our logo/seal), Rack Card, and finally, our new façade signage.
Put together, you can now see our “look” for which we have you and your team to thank!
As a representative (Board Member of the the non-profit American Overseas Schools Historical Society (AOSHS)), the experience of working with Lee Media Group was outstanding and the product developed was exceptional. The product we were asking them to create was a bit atypical. They were able to take the nuances and unique aspects of our organization and create a product that exceeded our expectations. Not only was the product exceptional, the working relationship between our organization and Lee Media Group was outstanding. The communication was constant and effective. The knowledge and skill of their staff was incredible. A more collegial relationship was not possible. AOSHS continues to contract with Lee Media Group to assist us with maintaining and modifying our website. The process of this maintenance and assistance has been flawless. AOSHS will continue to seek Lee Media Group’s professional service for any additional needs we have. We could not be more pleased with the product developed and the process to develop it.