How Do You Improve the Website?

I tell you what, my standards for and knowledge of the internet are really low.  I'm the same way with computers in general.  I still have a soft spot for Windows 3.1 because you could click on "File Manager" and have your computer's innards look directly at you without flashy graphics or hotkeys or extraneous clicking.  So in this respect I have no advice to offer to MTC's webmasters.

I got to thinking, though, that our main competition is TFA, so I might as well mosey to their website to see how they are set up.  And they beat the pants off of us.  Badly.  They look professional and we look like our website was made in the Delta.  My advice is to beg, borrow, or steal every aspect of TFA's website.  If I have to choose one thing in particular, they have an awesome interactive map that allows you to zoom into a particular TFA region to learn more about it.

I think MTC would be well-served to have an interactive map of Mississippi on either the first or second page.  Have some flashy graphics, some statistics, maybe pictures and blog links as well.  Like if I were to click on the "Greenville region", up would flash information about all the districts we serve in, perhaps some pictures of the schools and the towns in the area, and even links to the blogs of teachers who are placed in that particular region.  It would certainly allow for incoming MTC'ers to better vet their option of where to be placed.