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Here at Schoolyard, we pride ourselves as being leaders in open source website design for the independent school market.  With the understanding that this is our primary endeavor,and Drupal our beloved platform, we also don't shy away from utilizing the breadth of our professional capabilities to best serve our clients' needs and the project at hand.  Case in point,the High Meadows School in Roswell, Georgia. Our dialogue with High Meadows began at the CASE-NAIS conference in Chicago last January.

When we returned to the independent school web market a year ago this week, for NAIS AC10 in San Francisco, we called ourselves "Newschoolyard." The truth is we never actually left, we just stepped aside for a while. We had always provided support to our old proprietary code-based clients (in fact we still support exactly one school still running our old system). In introducing our new system--the first and still the only open source web CMS for independent schools--we wanted to differentiate ourselves from "old" expensive proprietary Schoolyard.

At the beginning of 1996 we were the only company making websites for independent schools. We recognized that the web was becoming an important enough communication resource that schools would eventually look to outside sources for help. A lot of other companies eventually arrived at the same conclusion, and of those I'd say that three became truly excellent providers of web communications services to the NAIS community.