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ladyspriteOkay. So last year I came up with what I thought was a pretty nifty idea - a kind of charity holiday. I called it Work For Charity Day, I set it in November, I promised to donate my income for one day to charity, and I asked anyone who could to join me, donate if they could, and spread the word.
And it went pretty well. Over a dozen people joined in, so that between us we donated the equivalent of more than two weeks' work to the charities of our choice.
And that's not bad. It's a good start.... but it could be better. I want to do this again, I want to make it a yearly thing, and I want to make it bigger. My ultimate goal, at least for now, is to get a full year's worth of charity work donated - and that means getting 364 people to pledge to join me this November.
So one of the things I'll need, to make this happen, is a website. I can only go so far promoting it here on LJ and Facebook; I need a place to point people, to collect information, and to explain to those who aren't my close personal friends what we're doing and why.
I have some ideas of what I want, and it's honestly pretty simple; mostly just a welcome page, FAQ, list of links and resources, and a place where people can sign up. I'll need to collect email addresses, but just to send reminders and thanks. In a perfect world, I'd like to have a display like on the 3 Day's donors page, where it can show people's names (or whatever pseudonym they choose to use) and, if they want, the charity they choose to donate to, but that's about it - we have a Facebook page for conversation, so I don't need it to have a message board feature.
Unfortunately, I know bless-all about designing web pages. I'm willing to learn, but I need help to start. So I need a place to put this, and someone to help me make this happen.
Anyone? I will gladly pay you back with gratitude, acknowledgement on said page, and the baked goods of your choice....
And it went pretty well. Over a dozen people joined in, so that between us we donated the equivalent of more than two weeks' work to the charities of our choice.
And that's not bad. It's a good start.... but it could be better. I want to do this again, I want to make it a yearly thing, and I want to make it bigger. My ultimate goal, at least for now, is to get a full year's worth of charity work donated - and that means getting 364 people to pledge to join me this November.
So one of the things I'll need, to make this happen, is a website. I can only go so far promoting it here on LJ and Facebook; I need a place to point people, to collect information, and to explain to those who aren't my close personal friends what we're doing and why.
I have some ideas of what I want, and it's honestly pretty simple; mostly just a welcome page, FAQ, list of links and resources, and a place where people can sign up. I'll need to collect email addresses, but just to send reminders and thanks. In a perfect world, I'd like to have a display like on the 3 Day's donors page, where it can show people's names (or whatever pseudonym they choose to use) and, if they want, the charity they choose to donate to, but that's about it - we have a Facebook page for conversation, so I don't need it to have a message board feature.
Unfortunately, I know bless-all about designing web pages. I'm willing to learn, but I need help to start. So I need a place to put this, and someone to help me make this happen.
Anyone? I will gladly pay you back with gratitude, acknowledgement on said page, and the baked goods of your choice....
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Date: 2014-04-25 07:12 pm (UTC)That doesn't mean you have to blog... it just means that this is the quickest way to put together a template that contains all the important information you need.
Alas, I don't know how to do this. But I mention it mostly because if you ran into someone who said they could set up a Wordpress blog to do this, I'd want you to recognize that they might actually be saying "I can probably create all the website you need", rather than "Oh, if you *also* want to blog about this, you can...".
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Date: 2014-04-25 10:02 pm (UTC)I'm on my commute, so can't go into details atm, but: I think you can do 95% of what you want on wordpress.com in a free account -- not mind you a WP install of your own, which is much more labor intensive, deeply technical, and security-issue prone.
Something useful to know: there is a bright-line difference in sophistication (and thus expense) between "my website tells its audience things" (cheap, easy) and "my website's audience tell me things through my website" (actual work). Any time a website presents its users with a box into which to type -- whether a search box, a sign up, an order form, anything -- the stakes go up, anywhere from, "oh now we have to think about this" to "holy cats". And it's approximately impossible for laypeople to tell where on that continuum they're proposing to land. Appearances can be deceiving.
Back later.