The end, I suppose...

Well, it's been a rather long, sometimes frustrating but mostly cool two weeks. I personally haven't been too busy this last week, most of my work was the week before, getting a logo and colours sorted. I also did a whole lot of website concepts, a pamphlet, a business card and a letterhead (some of which are on the previous post).

This week the primary frustration was not having information about the centre's current web host who, as we learnt on wednesday, does not support php. So the end of this week has been all about trying to get them signed up on a new host in time for the end tonight. Yesterday at about 4pm, we signed them up to 'hostican' who are cheaper than their current host and also support php. Unfortunately, they take 24hrs to confirm a contract so not sure whether we'll get all the stuff migrated over from the current temporary host.

But, on the brighter side, we've made a badge for the women's centre to distribute to other women's centres and blogs to link to their site, constructed a forum, set up silverstripe and taught the women's centre how to use it, re-organised the navigation structure of the site, given the page a whole new look, organised a library of fonts, images and other files for use in future designs and created an online form so that people can contact the centre directly from the website. Silverstripe really is the most important thing from the centre's point of view, because it is such a huge step up from the system they had previously, it will allow them to make the website very dynamic, hopefully new content will appear at least weekly!

So it's been fairly busy.

This experience has been awesome, it feels great doing something that benefits people who spend their lives helping others, learning a thing or two about web design and having heaps of fun times along the way. It's been cool to do some design again, it makes a really nice change from the usual rigours of studying Electrical Engineering :)
So I guess this is over and out from me, I can't wait to have a good look at what everyone else has done, I'll see you all at the awards dinner!

-Miles