Final Words...

For the final Presentation that we gave to Danielle, we put everything into a lovely pdf document that you can download here Final Presentation. This way she has a document that she can give to printers and other people alike. 

Nat and I would like to say that we are so grateful to be part of this competition. There were many sleepless nights and disagreements but we got there in the end! We  are so proud and would love to thank everyone who has helped us, especially Karla. We cant thank her enough for everything she has done for us and taught for us and for pushing us to the limit, and even further!!! We would also like to say that Danielle is such a lovely lady, we were grateful to learn from her and her charity and knowing that we have done something to help her little charity makes us so happy. 

The yMedia challenge was such a great experience and we cant wait to do it again next year!!

We thought we should probably have this here somewhere too...

Island Child Charitable Trust Brief

Team name: NDDesigns

The organisation: Island Child Charitable Trust

Mission / Vision (of organisation):

The trust's Vision is:"To work in partnership with our communities and to strengthen families in need."

Identified goal: To help design and put together an easily maintainable website for the organization, introduce the organization to social networking and help with the re-design of a stationary set for the organization.

Current barriers/difficulties in achieving this goal: Lack of website design/coding knowledge

Typical client / target audience: The East and South Auckland Community and high risk populations such as Maori, Pacific etc

Purpose of goal: To help Island Child Charitable Trust get their message and voice across to a wider community. 

Look and feel: The design must have a modern Pacific/Maori look and feel without becoming offensive to the specific cultures. 

Scope of work: website, stationary set, facebook page and blog set up.

Technology to be used: Computer, Adobe software, Internet. 

Length of project: 5 weeks

Start date: 29 July

Finish/sign off date:  10 August

 

Website developement

A website is a great way for a charity to spread awareness, from giving tips to net surfers or getting generous donations. at islandchild.org you can find background information about the charity, look at image gallery even find out people they are associated with. 

before we started the website we made sure that these options will be available for access 

= Home | About Us | Gallery | links | Media | Supporters| Donate.  

here is a rough sketch of the website map.. 

here is the a set of the very first layout we did, using adobe fireworks.

decided to add phrase "nurturing the inner child"  so people don't get confused about the charity thinking its all about children. The image banner was a good choice image of the little girl brightens up the page.

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SECOND LAYOUT.

After a meeting with Karla and Danielle we decided that the logo needed to stand out more and the colour on the page was a bit 'industrial', we also needed a DONATE section

here we have the second layout with improvement in the banner (also a potential layout is added) we placed it on the top left corner because its the first image to load on a page so the first thing you see is the island child logo!

although the donations section is yet to be added we wrote along the lines of how it was going to look like

we worked on some bright eye catching buttons!

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SOME LAYOUTS WE TRIED OUT

we really like the girl holding umbrella image so we kept it through all the layouts. Tried to add colours from the logo as well!

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Here is the final product!!!

we added colours from the logo into the background, navigation bar, and sub headings.

the DONATE button was originally orange but it was kinda random compared to everything else..although it would have been perfect to catch viewer's eyes!

here is a screen shot of the homepage again but the donate section lights up when u put your mouse over it! :o 

 

 

the only thing different is image gallery, we chose a page from other layouts we tried out!

We recommended her to get Adobe Fireworks as it will be better for her in the long run so she wouldn't have to pay someone every time and we also made a promise that we would go over to her house and teach her the basic of how to update her website! 

here are the rest of the pages...

MEDIA PAGE

LINKS : Whanau of Island Child

LINKS : Sponsors

LINKS : Friends of Island Child

Donation Page

Contacts Page

About Us

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with the final website we made sure that it was:

+ Donor-Friendly: We made a donations page and listed the possible ways people could donate!

instead of signing up a paypal account which you would have to pay fees, Danielle made an account at www.givealittle.co.nz, where people could easily log on and make online payments! it was also cost effective for Danielle as it was totally free!

+ Volunteer Friendly: On the donations page there are contact details and information on how you can help out the charity.

We found some non-profit websites that we tried to follow

what we liked about them was the simplicity, everything is in proportion and nothing stands out randomly.

Promotional Items!!!

We decided to find out whether there were any other ways in which we could promote Island Child Charitable Trust further and this is what we came up with. 

Women's Shirt Front

Women's Shirt Back

Men's Shirt Front

Men's Shirt Back

Umbrella

Pens

Mug Front

Mug Side

Keyring

Beanie

In addition to spread the awareness we thought of sending a viral email to our contacts, this is a great way even if only a couple of people forward the message the nest couple of people will forward more. Its also another way to get donations for Danielle!

Final Stationary Set!

We started working on the letterhead, business card and with compliments slip right away and after heaps of back and forth between us, Karla and Danielle we ended up with a great result!!

from this...

to this...

Meeting with Danielle 26th July

meeting with danielle (sunday 26th July)

WE arranged a meeting with Danielle on sunday 26th july to discuss 

Website ideas and for me to take photos for the website.

meeting was successfull got a whole bunch of pictures of Island Child accomodation services and residents, 

Danielle and I discussed that it would be a great idea if she could write abit about her supporters etc (posted in an email 

prior our meeting). while waiting for danielle to gather information for us, i had a chat to one of her residence he was lovely fijian/indian man

whos been at the trust for a while now. we had a long chat about his life and what brought him to the trust. (now hes off to the salvation army)

Email before the meeting

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So all i know that  these are the things you want on your site:

About Us
Links (facebook, supporters)
Supporters 
Contact (adress, phone, email, etc)
Donations
Image Gallery

am i missing anything? 

it would be lovely if you could email us back with 
full information about:

 your supporters (who they are, if you would like to thank them, mention anything they have done for you, anything you
can think of that you would like them and everyone else to see)

all the people you want to link to from your website (and why you would like to link to them if its not obvious already)

in image gallery what would you like to show to the people about your trust? this is very helpful because it could be the base image for your website.

about us: apart from the information we already have, is there anything else you would like to ad? you could write another and we can combine with what you have given us :)

any thing else you would like to put on the website? maybe something about the philosophy, perhaps a special section.

please try provide as much information as you can, we can only help you from what we have and no one else is more passionate about your trust but you :)

Danielle also gave me some pictures she has taken from over the years..check out the pictures!

After this we made a photobucket with all the images we were hoping to put on the website, gave Danielle the link

so that she could comment on the photos to add captions.

warning..image = very low quality

Development

Further development of the original logo. Trying out a few gradients on the patterns and type...

We decided not to use gradients as printing it would be extremely expensive especially for a small charity who is rather short on funds. So instead we tried some solid colours.

Further development. Decided to try some bright, eye catching colours to give the logo a more solid and fresh look. We tried out some new fonts because we wanted something more solid. We chose Trebuchet as it is solid but still has a few decorative elements so it is not so boring. We also played around with the shape of the letters by expanding the "L's", coloured in the "I's" and filled in the "D's". "Charitable trust" is in Futura.

We picked one of the designs from the previous developments and tried adding patterns and different colours so we did a bit of research on colours and how they make you feel. 

After a meeting with Karla and Danielle we finally decided on the final logo!!! We decided to stick with the fonts that we had chosen and we also modified the "I's" in "Island Child" to look like little people. We decided on the colours blue and green as they have very relevant meanings and we added a koru pattern to inside the "D's" rather than having the big pattern down the side. For legal reasons we also had to add "New Zealand" to the logo. 

So there we have it!!! The final logo!