Website Design for nonprofit organizations and small businesses

Nonprofit organizations’ websites have very unique needs and overlooking these needs is a sure way of failure. A nonprofit organization’s priority mission is to make money. If there is no money coming in, no help can go out; it’s as simple as that. A nonprofit website is the front door of the organization regardless of its size or capacity, and it should be self sustaining, profitable and the most important of all nonproprietary. That means that a nonprofit website should be free of reliance on webmasters, software companies, and the for-profit sector.

Let me give you an example. Organization ‘X’ hires a web developer to create a website for the organization. The designer uses a software such as Adobe Dreamweaver to complete the job and the organization is happy for a while. A year later, the designer falls off the face of planet, (happens more frequently than you think) and the organization is left with a dead website with no one to help at all. In this situation, the organization is bound to hire another professional to maintain their site, or shell-out $1800 for the Dreamweaver software, not mentioning the lack of knowledge to using it.

I’m a web developer and designer, meaning that I write the code, then design the graphics for my own code. Unlike many other companies who hide their codes, and just give access to the front end – what I build is absolutely yours, and when I say that, it means that you are in full control of the site, and you can publish pictures, videos, articles, pages, … on your own without any help from the outside. You have the code from the start, and you are entitled to modify it however you want. This system is called Content Management System or CMS.

Let’s get familiar with the basics of a website. By hovering over the animated flash below, you can see the different parts of a simple webpage. We take this concept and radically change it to a dynamic, live website. Once you’re done playing with the flash, let’s go to the website gallery to see what we can make.

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