Donna Vitan

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!