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We Have A Winner

Congratulations to Beacon Falls Congregational Church. I hope you put the new website I’m going to design for you to good use!

Back on March 31 I posted an entry titled “My Good Deed Offer.”

If you’re involved with a small charity or civic organization listen up. I want to make you an offer. Among the skills I’ve been honing here in my “off season” is web design. I’d like to design a website for a small charity or civic organization. I will do it for free, no strings attached.

Congratulations to Beacon Falls Congregational Church. I hope you put the new website I’m going to design for you to good use! Thanks to over 1,200 of you who voted.

My next step is to meet with someone from the church to decide what they’d like to see in the look and functionality of the site. I have some suggestions too.

It’s good practice for me and something nice for them. Win-win!

I Need Your Vote For My Good Deed

Vote once and encourage your friends to vote as well.

Last week I decided to offer the design of a simple website to a local charity or civic group. Let’s face it, without a website today some people don’t think you exist! I got a bunch of very worthy entrants.

I asked each entrant to write a little bit about his or her group. You can read those descriptions here.

Now it’s your turn to chime in!

All this week you can vote for the group you’d like to see get the website. They are listed on the right side of this page (and every other page on “My Permanent Record.”

Vote and encourage your friends to vote as well. If you click the “Like” button at the bottom of this entry it will post a link to your Facebook wall encouraging more folks to vote.

Good luck to all our worthy entrants. I look forward to designing your site.

My Good Deed Offer

I’d like to design a website for a small charity or civic organization. I will do it for free, no strings attached.

If you’re involved with a small charity or civic organization listen up. I want to make you an offer. Among the skills I’ve been honing here in my “off season” is web design. I’d like to design a website for a small charity or civic organization. I will do it for free, no strings attached.

It will be impossible for me to pick the right group, so after I get submissions I will let my readers/viewers do the choosing.

To qualify:

  • If your group is a charity it must be properly registered with the State of Connecticut as a charity.
  • Your charity or organization must benefit a group, not a single individual.
  • If you’re submitting a civic group, it must be a non-for-profit group
  • Your organization’s good deeds should be performed primarily in Connecticut for the benefit of people who live here.

I love the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and March of Dimes, but I’m not offering this to them. I am looking for a smaller group without the resources to easily put something online.

I will build you a multipage website. It will be based on WordPress which is the software that drives my site and many others. You will have to provide a webhost and domain name. Usually you can purchase a plan which will work for under $10/month. I will help you find a webhost, but you’ll have to make the purchase.

If you want photos included–no problem. If you want a short (under two minutes) video clip consider it done! I will do what I can to accommodate you.

You will be responsible for the content (the words) and may be called upon to guide me toward your vision of a site.

I reserve the right to make up the rules as we go along (because I might have forgotten something important), but I will not charge you a penny and you will get my best work.

When I am finished you will have an easily updated website you can maintain yourself though I’ll do what I can to help.

To nominate your organization or charity please leave a comment on this post (not on Facebook). Please tell everyone about your group in two or three sentences–no more. Include your email address so I can get in contact with you.

I’ll take submissions through the weekend then open up the voting sometime next week.

One last thing. Help me get the word out. Clicking the Facebook “Like” button under this sentence will put a link to this post on your Facebook wall and help get more people involved.