Logo approval and the first of many technical difficulties

Yesterday afternoon (Monday 28th), Kat & I trekked out to Glenfield to meet up with Kaira to present our final logo options to her for approval. Miles had done a wonderful job and I found the logo to be simple yet very effective at putting across the message of diversity and interdependence.
This time we knew our way there (vaguely, still had a couple of looks at the mapbook), however, the petrol light was on the whole way and would beep at us every now and then. I was a little concerned we were going to break down in the middle of the northern motorway.

We were introduced to Cathy, the NSWC web-person. We discussed the logo at length and decided we would mock some up using more red and playing around with type layout.

Later on in the evening, after topping up on beers and picking up some Thai takeaways, we had a very long team meeting, at times productive & sometimes frustrating. We were very keen on producing a really cool website for the centre but decided that usability was a more important factor. We needed our website to be done in a way that ordinary staff the the NSWC could update it themselves. In the end we decided to try out a NZ application called Silverstripe. We are having trouble downloading it though (silly open source geeks making things complicated...) but if it doesn't work we might resort to just using Wordpress.

Tonight we will mock up a few website design options and pass them onto the centre for approval, and hopefully decide on the way we will implement that design. It is also unfortunate that we still do not know whether their current hosting system supports php. I hope all this will be sorted out by our next entry!