ExtremeMarkover.org Blog

Brandan Lennox is an independent Web Developer from North Carolina and has volunteered to support the ExtremeMarkover. As and experienced Web developer Brandan brings a wealth of knowledge to the effort and the discussion. In this podcast, Brandan shares his thoughts on the process and next steps.

As part of the Extreme Markover Web design makover process, I interviewed the two principles of the designated non-profit organization, Voices of Involved Citizens Encouraging Safety. I asked the both Laurie and Debbie to comment on and ask questions regarding our progress to date. Specifically, I’m opening up the dialogue via the Extreme Markover blog to provide the Community Voices organization and opportunity to explain the mission and their vision for the markover in their own words.

Following this blog post, we will be publishing answers to the following questions:

World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) Extreme Markover.org website makeover questionnaire

Dear Non Profit or Educational Organization,

Thank you for agreeing to participate in the 2008/2009 ExtremeMarkover.org initiative. We are excited about this Web professional event, which aims to serve as an outreach to the community, education for customers, practitioners and those that teach, and of course–provides you with an up-to-date Web site design.

In order for our Web professional volunteers to address you needs better, we would like to request that you provide us with the supporting elements to make your site as complete and accurate as possible. Our supporters will gain access to the source material so as much as you can provide will only benefit the outcome of your site.

If you currently have a website, Please provide us with the following:

Server access to the Site Pages for design will include:

Home Page
About Us page
Mission Statement page
News/Events/others page
Contact Us page

For our Web professional volunteers to execute these pages, we are requesting the following written text and graphic images be provided on your server of choice.

WORD to Text documents with:

1 – CONTACT Information:
Corporate or Organization Name: _______________________
Business Address: _____________________________________
City, State, Zip: _______________________________________
Phone: ________________________Fax: ___________________

Any and all applicable e-mail addresses:

2 – MISSION STATEMENT of ORGANIZATION (please use a separate sheet if needed)
What are your Goals ?
Health and Medicine Foundation is a international non-profit organization dedicated to the education

3 – ABOUT US info
What do you want your audience to know about your organization?

4 – any additional info you’d like for us to have, i.e. List of Board of Directors,
Events, Accomplishments, Special Highlights, etc.

5 – and answer these Questions:
What is the intended Goal or objective of this web site ?

6 – Are you required to comply with Section 508 (do you receive Federal
monies or contract to those that do for your Web sites?) Yes No

7 – Please describe your intended web site audience. Are we communicating to parents who are enrolling their children in whatever programs, or are we sourcing funds from Corporate America? If it’s parents or a general public audience, please supply any demographic definition or profiles. Are there any special needs that we need to address with this audience?

8 – Do you have a Web site currently? Yes No

If “Yes” … what is the web address?
Can we contact your web master for a copy of your site to provide to our contestants? Contact Name and Phone: ____________________________

9 – Will this site be expanded in the future to include database management
and/or commerce tools and software ?

Graphics and Pictures

Please include on the server:

Organization logo
Slogan or motto
Identify any corporate colors (CMYK or Pantone colors)
Identify any specific corporate type face of font to be used – if any
Any graphics, artists renderings, maps, etc that can be used
And any photos that are applicable

Images can be supplied in:

JPEP
.tiff
bitmap
or just about any PC paint program images are acceptable

Any additional comments and or wish list of desired results:

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Jacob Smith is a New Media Strategist with Masterworks.com. His passion is to help nonprofit organizations tell their story and expand their reach. To that end, Jacob shares his thoughts on how to kick-start and manage the ExtremeMarkover.org process. A full transcript will be available in twenty four hours.

Leslie shares her time, expertise and thoughts regarding the ExtremeMarkover.org initiative.

A full transcript will follow in twenty four hours.