The Motherhouse site has been redesigned using a mobile responsive theme from StudioPress. The site has the great Ajax Event Calendar installed and in use which automatically display the next 5 upcoming events on the Home page.
Check it out!
Motherhouse
March 2, 2013 By
EXTRAS
June 5, 2012 By
EXTRAS or Extended Time for Recreational Activities in Salisbury (CT) is an after school and summer program in the town I live in. EXTRAS opened its door in the summer of 1988 because of the foresight of many individuals and businesses in the community who realized the need for a supervised after-school program for children with working parents and I am happy to say that all these years later EXTRAS now has a web site designed by w3sights. The site uses WordPress installed on Dreamhost hosting which I recommended. DreamHost proudly offers free web hosting to non-profit, 501(c)(3) charitable organizations registered in the US and since EXTRAS is a non-profit organization I am especially happy to say the web hosting for their site is free. Thank you, EXTRAS and Dreamhost!
The Possibility Project
August 13, 2010 By
City at Peace is now officially “The Possibility Project” Their new name reflects their growth and their evolving mission since the founding of City at Peace 16 years ago in Washington, DC, and the beginnings of their national effort in New York City 10 years ago. With their new name, they wanted a new web site and I was happy to be selected to set up a site using WordPress, of course. I say of course because WordPress is what I prefer to work with these days and has become my de facto standard for many reasons. You’re pretty much covered for SEO using WordPress, for one. With so many plugins written for WordPress a site can be extended to do almost anything you imagine. Not to mention the fact that WordPress is trully user-friendly, so web site owners can do a lot of updating themselves.
The new Possibility Project uses a plugin with a name that I love – Hackadelic Widget Voodoo. Go to “The Possibility Project” and click on the black sub headings in the sidebar to see it in action. And that’s not it! Pages throughout the site with a lot of text have sections or chapters that are collapsible, too, making for a very neat appearance and allowing a visitor to go directly to and only read what they want to without sifting through long pages. See an example on the Cities page. Thank you to Zoran, the author of this plugin for making both sections in the sidebar and on the page into “cool, collapsible, AJAX-type citizens”.
Visit the Gallery to see images from recent productions, original musicals and images from community action projects. Here you will see what The Possibility Project envisions – A society where teenagers are valued, respected and play a leading role in creating a better world. There are many ways to get involved such as volunteering, donating, attending a show, or joining the project if you area teenager in New York City or one of the locations with Possibility Projects.
After working hard on this site to have it ready for launching on August 2nd, it was gratifying to receive an email from Kelly thanking me and saying that the site looked great and that everything went smoothly.
Salisbury Forum
October 28, 2009 By
I was pleased to work with the local non-profit organization, The Salisbury Forum, and design a new web site for them. I was asked to make the site look and feel like their posters and brochures; I choose WordPress as the infrastructure. I set up two categories: Events and News, and the site’s Home page highlights the most recent posts in each. A comment about the site: “The website looks super sharp, easily navigable; the photos are terrific, the info is easily accessed and digested.” Visit the new Salisbury Forum site and let me know what you think!
Motherhouse
April 29, 2009 By
The Motherhouse web site has a new look and new features! Recently redeveloped using WordPress, the site uses a number of plugins, two of which are – Featured Content Gallery for the slide show and Event Calendar to display upcoming events, both noticeable on the Home page.
City at Peace – New York
October 31, 2008 By
City at Peace is a national non-profit organization that uses the performing arts to empower teenagers to create safe, healthy, peaceful lives and communities. Several years ago I began working on the National web site for City at Peace and recently was asked to work on the New York site:
I am writing to you at the suggestion of Paul Griffin, with whom I work and who has recommended you highly. I am reaching out to you in the hopes that you would consider taking on CP-NY as your client and work your magic for us in the same loving and creative way that you have for CP-National! We have a functioning website, but not only do I need someone superbly professional and talented to help keep the information flowing on our site, but I am also considering having our site redesigned to mirror/match CP-National’s fabulously functional and eye grabbing site. We have many projects under development that would mean expanding our site and important updates every couple of months and when I mentioned to Paul that I needed someone who could do this work and tackle the bigger design work, who is excited by, and deeply respectful of the work we do (and frankly our limited funds!), you were who he raved about…
In this redesign project I used WordPress as a CMS (Content Management System) to accommodate and keep all the information easily up to date. The Home page has both a slide show and an YouTube video. The most recent news and events items are automatically displayed on the Home page, when no longer displayed news items are accessible because they are automatically archived. NextGen is being used for the show photos and the Youth Corner contains important information.
City at Peace – National
July 4, 2008 By
I designed this site and maintained it for several years. Having only specific sections that require updating, such as the “News and Events” section on the City At Peace home page, is an effective way of handling maintenance.