Project Complete: I am a member of a community organization known as Rochester Area Youth Assistance (RAYA).
RAYA is a non-profit organization of volunteers, working in conjunction with a professional full-time counselor, whose goal is to strengthen youth and families. Through RAYA’s efforts we expect to see a reduction in the the incidents of delinquency, abuse and neglect through volunteer involvement.
At a board meeting last week, the RAYA leadership expressed the desire to have a website developed and said that they had been in contact with a web designer who works with non-profit organizations such as RAYA. I asked if this designer was willing to develop the site for free, and needless to say the answer was that they were not.
Being between projects, I set to work on creating a website for the group. I am very pleased with the outcome. The site is clean, uncluttered and professional looking. Although the images provided were not of the best quality, I am happy with the final product.
As usual, this site is constructed to to the Strict standard and uses valid XHTML code. I have used one little tweak in the CSS code to make Safari behave correctly:
/*
Safari only hack
http://dustinbrewer.com/css-hackgetting-safari-to-behave/
*/
@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0){
#menu ul li a {padding-top:20px;}
#menu ul li.current_page_item a {padding-top:24px;}
#menu ul li a:hover, #menu ul li a:active, #menu ul li a:focus {
margin-top:7px;
padding: 14px 12px 7px 12px;
}
}
But other than that, the CSS is standard compliant as well. The site is also Section 508 compliant.
Once again, I have built this site using WordPress as the backend content management system. This will afford the site adminstrator the ability to make reasonable content changes to the site as well as to write news articles and to provide other updated information.
I wish RAYA good luck with their new website!
