Hill Powers Memorial Foundation: A Work In Progress
I’m currently working on a new site right now, www.hillpowers.com which is a non-profit organization that promotes the advancement of performance art. I hope that I give this project some justice and that the Jaimie Hill And Tammy-Lynne Powers Memorial Foundation get the attention they deserve. As of now, Hill/Powers is in its infancy and I look forward to making it grow with the addition of a gallery, events calendar, newsletter and donation system.
With every project, I make it a point to at least google similar sites in order to get a feel of what it’s all about. It also helps me to know what information, technologies, services and key elements I should include or propose to the client. For a charity site, it is definitely important to have some sort of donation system. In my initial proposal, I suggested using Paypal but I found that many of the Canadian charities that I have visited have used www.canadahelps.org. I will definitely have to look into that one more closely before I go ahead and put that on the plate. If anyone has any experience with charity donation systems, don’t be shy and let me know.
The thing that REALLY gets me excited about this is that I finally started a layout with CSS. The layout for Hill/Powers isn’t mind blowing, it’s actually quite simple but I feel that the advantage of going with CSS is that I have more power creatively without the hassle of changing tables via templates. I do realize that one should be weary of jumping on the trendy bandwagon and stick to what has worked in the past. However, you’ve got to keep up with the times, especially with Web 2.0 rolling out. I’m not saying goodbye to tables at all, I just think that this project will definitely help me explore more of what CSS can do besides formatting text.
The strange thing is, I woke up this morning thinking of the CSS possibilities with this project. I barely had my eyes open and I was thinking about what I was going to do with that left column I kept open for a possible menu/sponsor space. It was like I was coding in my mind’s eye. You could say I’m revved up about it and I know it’ll be there with me in the back of my mind until this is completed. But a project is never really complete, not for a website anyway. I often get this way when working on a new project, well, any project actually that’s why I have to turn my brain off on weekends.
Ah yes, let me enjoy my weekend then. Happy Dad’s day too!
June 24th, 2006 at 10:49 pm
I personally have always been inlove with tabulated medus, made ever famous by the apple giant.
I considered your design styles consisten, look at the background and also colour consistency in link colours and so on. You’ve done a good job so far, maybe the left column could be used specifically details a sub-medua of what the Sponsorship page holds? And also putting images in for exampled;
The Donate page:
Left column sub-menu could hold #anchor links to specific sub-sections, like Getting involved or being a volunteer, but also incorporating maybe an interactive image i.e. a 4 square image - each quatered square relating to a anchor on the page or so on. Just an idea anything if you understand what Im talking about.
Cheers
Aaron
P.S. you have a very nice site, all credit going to Ian Main of course.
June 24th, 2006 at 10:51 pm
Can you edit it so it makes sense!!! Gawd, what was I thinking! lol
August 25th, 2006 at 12:32 am
Thank you Aaron for your kind comments! And yes, your suggestions do make sense. Forgive me for the late reply but I didn’t really notice that the comments had to be approved! I’ll have to change that.
Ian Main’s layout is awesome and when the time comes, I hope to create my own personaly style. I think it’s a common theme amongst designers that they always want to work on something but rarely have the initiative to improve on their own needs.
Till next time,
Donna