We are now beginning the last stages of our project with the Anderson Sunshine House. This past week instead of having class we had three separate group meetings to divide the remaining work left for our group to do.
The main items that we worked on this week were to focus on the fundraiser link and to communicate our goals with our fellow students. To accomplish these main tasks we did several things. One, we wrote and edited the information that was to go on the fundraiser link. Then, we emailed this information to Beth for approval. We wanted to make sure that our clients were comfortable with everything that would be on their website. After we received some feedback on the information, we made a few changes to the details and sent it off to Tiger Web Design to be put on the website. We also sent the clip-art that we had used on our web design to Tiger Web Design to be placed on the website.
In addition to the work we did on the Anderson Sunshine House project, we also took some time to give each other feedback on our portfolios and to help with any questions that group members had in regards to creating our own webpages.
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Thursday, April 5, 2007
End of Phase 2
This past week, the groups got feedback from Carolyn and Beth about each proposal. Even though they chose the Tiger Web Design's website, Beth noted what she liked best from each individual proposal. From our design, she especially liked the choice of clip art and graphics. The clip art might add a soothing feel to mother's visiting the website in need of help.
Next week our group will have group meetings in the library since Angie will be in Chicago. Working with other groups, we will need to perfect our link that will most likely be used in the final web site, the golf tournament link. We also need to organize all our clip art to send to the Tiger Web Design group. As well as getting our link and clip art ready for the ASH web site, we will also help each other with any questions and problems we have making our second portfolio, which is due on Friday.
In our proposal to the Anderson Sunshine House, we included four links:
- Donor and volunteer
- History
- Fundraiser
- Getting Help
Each link included information found in the Anderson Sunshine House's original brochure. We took the information and changed it around, making it more attractive and easier to read.
The Little Miss Sunshines are excited to contribute to the final web site and are eager to see the finished project!
Next week our group will have group meetings in the library since Angie will be in Chicago. Working with other groups, we will need to perfect our link that will most likely be used in the final web site, the golf tournament link. We also need to organize all our clip art to send to the Tiger Web Design group. As well as getting our link and clip art ready for the ASH web site, we will also help each other with any questions and problems we have making our second portfolio, which is due on Friday.
In our proposal to the Anderson Sunshine House, we included four links:
- Donor and volunteer
- History
- Fundraiser
- Getting Help
Each link included information found in the Anderson Sunshine House's original brochure. We took the information and changed it around, making it more attractive and easier to read.
The Little Miss Sunshines are excited to contribute to the final web site and are eager to see the finished project!
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Proposal Finished!
This week our proposal was worked on Monday in class and finally finished by Wednesdays class to turn in. We emailed the proposal to Beth and Carolyn on Wednesday during class. For our proposal each person wrote on the link from the website that they developed, Ashley finished the website, and Alex put the final documents together into the proposal form. Also, during Mondays class we worked on the executive summary and the introduction together. We included the audience that we are trying to target, the layout of the website, and screen shots of each of the pages in the website. This was included so that Beth and Carolyn could see what the potential website could look like. We also received and email from Beth telling us she really liked the pictures that we used on the website and that she thought our proposal was well done. Overall, our proposal was very organized and said exactly what we did very well.
Our website was also finished this week with the pictures being added to each of the pages to make sure each page was not just words and boring. We made sure that the pictures were diverse in race and included adults and children. This way people will know that this homeless shelter is for everyone and not just one group of people. Also all the links were finalized in the sense that each of the links were on all of the pages so when people are there, they will not have to push the back button 800 times. Now someone who is on the website can just click the home button on the bottom of each page and get back to where they started if they wanted. They can do this with any link.
Now since the proposal was given to Beth and Carolyn we just have to wait for a decision on which website she picks. Our proposal will also be looked over for corrections to be put into our next portfolio.
Our website was also finished this week with the pictures being added to each of the pages to make sure each page was not just words and boring. We made sure that the pictures were diverse in race and included adults and children. This way people will know that this homeless shelter is for everyone and not just one group of people. Also all the links were finalized in the sense that each of the links were on all of the pages so when people are there, they will not have to push the back button 800 times. Now someone who is on the website can just click the home button on the bottom of each page and get back to where they started if they wanted. They can do this with any link.
Now since the proposal was given to Beth and Carolyn we just have to wait for a decision on which website she picks. Our proposal will also be looked over for corrections to be put into our next portfolio.
Friday, March 9, 2007
Group Proposal Update
Our team met briefly in class today to discuss our proposal. We all had similar ideas for how the body of the proposal should be organized. We want to include three main headings: Audience, Design, and Links. We feel that these are the three most important aspects to our web design.
In the audience section we plan to include some statistics and visuals to make the report easier to read. We are hoping to receive some statistics on how many people the Sunshine House helps to include. We think that this will make people more likely to donate money if they can see how much of an impact it has. The audience section will also include our research on who our website is designed to reach: homeless people and donors.
The design section will justify the main layout and color scheme of the web page. Our goal was to create a user friendly web site with a minimal amount of text arranged in a way that makes it easy to read. We used bulleted lists whenever possible and avoided paragraphs of text. The layout of the links makes them easy to navigate so even people with limited web experience should be able to find any information they need.
The links section will be the bulk of our proposal. In this section we will include information about what we wrote on the site, as well as a justification for inclusion. This is the section where we will justify the use of paypal and address any security concerns. This section is what will make our proposal stand out, as this is where our proposal will differ from everyone else's. We also plan to include small graphics of each part of the webpage to give visual appeal and further explain what the links will be like.
Our plan is to write the bulk of the links section this weekend, and then to work as a group on the other parts of the proposal. Alex, as the writer, will then be in charge of putting it all together to make it flow. We feel like we already have most of the proposal done, but we just need to organize the information we have and put it all together.
We are planning to use the class time on Monday as our only meeting next week because everyone has hectic weeks next week. After Monday any further communication will be conducted via e-mail, and our final proposal will be ready to submit on Wednesday.
In the audience section we plan to include some statistics and visuals to make the report easier to read. We are hoping to receive some statistics on how many people the Sunshine House helps to include. We think that this will make people more likely to donate money if they can see how much of an impact it has. The audience section will also include our research on who our website is designed to reach: homeless people and donors.
The design section will justify the main layout and color scheme of the web page. Our goal was to create a user friendly web site with a minimal amount of text arranged in a way that makes it easy to read. We used bulleted lists whenever possible and avoided paragraphs of text. The layout of the links makes them easy to navigate so even people with limited web experience should be able to find any information they need.
The links section will be the bulk of our proposal. In this section we will include information about what we wrote on the site, as well as a justification for inclusion. This is the section where we will justify the use of paypal and address any security concerns. This section is what will make our proposal stand out, as this is where our proposal will differ from everyone else's. We also plan to include small graphics of each part of the webpage to give visual appeal and further explain what the links will be like.
Our plan is to write the bulk of the links section this weekend, and then to work as a group on the other parts of the proposal. Alex, as the writer, will then be in charge of putting it all together to make it flow. We feel like we already have most of the proposal done, but we just need to organize the information we have and put it all together.
We are planning to use the class time on Monday as our only meeting next week because everyone has hectic weeks next week. After Monday any further communication will be conducted via e-mail, and our final proposal will be ready to submit on Wednesday.
Friday, March 2, 2007
On Monday and Wednesday of this week, our group met to discuss and try and make some progress on our website. During this week, things really started to come together for us in terms of having an actual website. All of the links have been composed for the website. Each member of the group composed and sent a link to Alex, who then edited them. At our meeting on Wednesday, we went over in detail what was on each link and any corrections that Alex had suggested. I think we were all impressed by the work we had done on them, and I think the Anderson Sunshine House will be happy with the information that we have chosen to display on the website. It is a good representation of all of the information that we have been able to find through our research and we think it will be very informative to anyone who needs information about the ASH! We have subitted all of our writings to our webdesigner, Ashley, and she is working on the draft of the website, so we are anxiously awaiting the finishing of that! At the meeting on Wednesday we discussed our progress and we think we are making good progress and are at a point we need to be. We dont really know which direction we need to go in from here, but since we are having a client visit on Monday, hopefully a lot of our questions will be anwswered and we can determine what steps we need to take from here on out! I know we are all excited to meet the client and put a face to the company that we have been working so hard for! The next thing we have to work on is the proposal, but we are hoping that Angie will give us some more details about that before we can really get started on that. So right now we are kind of in limbo, but I'm sure that will change very quickly!!
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Team Progress
As the semester moves along, the Little Miss Sunshines have begun our team meetings outside of the classroom. After looking at various examples of websites for similar organizations, we gathered a feel for the kind of items that we may want to include on our design of the Sunshine Anderson House website. Each member of the group has been working with different aspects of the project and up until this point most of it had to do with the "getting started" stage of the project. As a whole, we have asked questions about what to and what not to include on the website, what pictures would be allowed (in respect to copyrights), what links we wanted to include on our webpage and how we wanted to present the organization.
As we have now already collected the research, we have started assigning group members different tasks to get us closer to completing the website. Our web designer, Ashley, has been working on creating the website and its features. She has already made links titled About Us, Getting Help, Donate Here, and Ways to Volunteer. We would also like to add a "Fundraiser" link in which we hope to explain a little bit about them as well as how you can participate. She has also mentioned the idea of having buttons instead of links for the different parts of the site.
Ideas for layout of this website in terms of the information are as follows. For our home page, we were thinking about putting the mission statement of the Anderson Sunshine House followed by a letter from either one or both of our lovely women in charge of this organization to say a little blurb about what it means to them or what they are about (This will really give them a chance to say in their own words what they want others to know). We would also like to include a success story of one of the people who has been helped by the organization, with their permission of course.
On our next link, About Us, we would like to put a little bit of history in bullet format to give the reader more knowledge about what has been done and what hopefully will be done. Our Getting Help page will include information on who they help (especially families with children), some of the requirements for receiving services, and contact information. On our Donate Here link we will include a list of physical items that the organization needs and maybe some quotes from people who have donated or been helped by the donations (anonymous, of course). We considered putting paypal on this link but chose not to and instead will include a p.o. box that checks can be mailed to. We will justify the decision not to use paypal in our proposal. Right now we are considering the possibility of combining the volunteer tab with the donate here tab to make the links less redundant.
In the upcoming week our activities will be along these lines. Ashley will continue modifying our web page and designing the physical appearance of each page, as well as creating necessary links, finding pictures and other items to place on each link. Mary Beth has been elected to our class's peer review committee and will also be finding out more information about what ASH volunteers do, how we can apply clip-art, and will write the information out that will be on the Donors page. Lauren will be writing two links: Getting Help and Fundraising Links. Nina will do the writing on the History link and will also be in charge of keeping up with our minutes and making sure everyone has a copy. Alex will be in charge of receiving the writing for each link and editing each to make sure that it all flows together and sounds professional. She will also be in charge of the paper this week to inform our teacher of what progress has been made as well as creating the team blog and publishing the first update.
As we have now already collected the research, we have started assigning group members different tasks to get us closer to completing the website. Our web designer, Ashley, has been working on creating the website and its features. She has already made links titled About Us, Getting Help, Donate Here, and Ways to Volunteer. We would also like to add a "Fundraiser" link in which we hope to explain a little bit about them as well as how you can participate. She has also mentioned the idea of having buttons instead of links for the different parts of the site.
Ideas for layout of this website in terms of the information are as follows. For our home page, we were thinking about putting the mission statement of the Anderson Sunshine House followed by a letter from either one or both of our lovely women in charge of this organization to say a little blurb about what it means to them or what they are about (This will really give them a chance to say in their own words what they want others to know). We would also like to include a success story of one of the people who has been helped by the organization, with their permission of course.
On our next link, About Us, we would like to put a little bit of history in bullet format to give the reader more knowledge about what has been done and what hopefully will be done. Our Getting Help page will include information on who they help (especially families with children), some of the requirements for receiving services, and contact information. On our Donate Here link we will include a list of physical items that the organization needs and maybe some quotes from people who have donated or been helped by the donations (anonymous, of course). We considered putting paypal on this link but chose not to and instead will include a p.o. box that checks can be mailed to. We will justify the decision not to use paypal in our proposal. Right now we are considering the possibility of combining the volunteer tab with the donate here tab to make the links less redundant.
In the upcoming week our activities will be along these lines. Ashley will continue modifying our web page and designing the physical appearance of each page, as well as creating necessary links, finding pictures and other items to place on each link. Mary Beth has been elected to our class's peer review committee and will also be finding out more information about what ASH volunteers do, how we can apply clip-art, and will write the information out that will be on the Donors page. Lauren will be writing two links: Getting Help and Fundraising Links. Nina will do the writing on the History link and will also be in charge of keeping up with our minutes and making sure everyone has a copy. Alex will be in charge of receiving the writing for each link and editing each to make sure that it all flows together and sounds professional. She will also be in charge of the paper this week to inform our teacher of what progress has been made as well as creating the team blog and publishing the first update.
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