WHOA

Ok everyone, see the magic, click here.

After two and a half hours of negotiation, we finally have a proper website... well kind of. The data is still coming from www.screengraffiti.com/digitalfix/ but going to the domain name www.womyn-ctr.co.nz.

The hosting problem is one that will have to be sorted out properly later on. But that will do as a short term solution. On Monday we shall resume the investigations into who could possible know the password, everyone has finished work now, and there's nothing we can do over the weekend.

We shall begin by thanking Mike Cochrane from gardyneHOLT design partners. I cannot even start describing how much of a big help he has been over the past 3 hours! Together we discovered 4 different web hosting companies were involved in the womyn-ctr domain: Domainz, Maxnet, DMD, Swizzle... Not to mention Hostican who still haven't gotten back to us.
With his insane technical knowledge, Mike narrowed it down to DMD and found out that 2 key people in their tech staff do not work there anymore which might explain the fact that no-one knows the password. However, they have agreed to look into it and hopefully will be able to tell us what it is on Monday.

Secondly, we would like to thank Robbie Boyd for all the web-savvy wisdom he passed on to us, and for adopting the site onto www.screengraffiti.com. Without him we would only have achieved half what we actually did! He pointed us towards Silvertripe and he told us how to design a website with usability in mind. Really, he has been the person Digital Fix has turned to the most, and without him the site would probably still be in concept stages! Thank you so much.

Thirdly, we'd like to thank yMedia for giving us this opportunity. It was a really eye-opening experience and all three of us have learnt a lot from it. Especially to expect the unexpected! It's amazing how you can have fun and be stressed-out at the same time! But seriously, time management is the key.

And last but not least, our buddies at the North Shore Women's Centre! These ladies have been truly amazing. So accomodating and nice, and really good at imagining our ideas! Of course, they have particular tastes and we have to adapt our design to fit with their vision, but that's what working with a client is all about, and we are so glad that they're happy about the final result. Really, we couldn't have expected more from them, and we look forward to continuing to work with them. Miles is already drawing up concepts for the banner which should be ready by Monday, and I will keep in touch with Mike to sort out the hosting problems. Katherine is still emailing back and forth with Cathy on the details surrounding administrating the website. In 10 minutes the yMedia challenge ends, but that doesn't mean we'll cease to help these women out. In the couple of weeks we've worked with them they have imparted to us so much wisdom on gender issues and feminism, it's really quite hard not to get caught up in it all.

We are so happy. Everything came together in the end. The very end haha.