Save Obama School: The Site and The Non-profit

This is the deal: it will cost $500+ to start a non-profit entity in California for “Save Senator Obama Kogelo Secondary School.” In addition a web designer must be paid to assist with obamaschool.org (unless some kind soul is willing to donate his/her services). I have a grand total of $25 in donations to this cause and five of it came from me.* I want to start a Facebook campaign but need a beneficiary.

Do I have to appeal to your emotions to get this done? No, not pity, but pride? Heck, I said I wasn’t go to do this but I will.

Don't you want to show the Democrats how it’s done?

Well if you do…

Contact me at juliette-at-luoamerican-dot-com.

PREVIOUSLY:

Saving Obama School
Raising A Village

*Make that $75!

Comments

[Buffoon]

I see that you already have a host and domain name so the rest is easy and free. I would suggest going here
http://install4free.wordpress.net/
and requesting a free installation.

After that, choose a simple blog layout from one of the thousands of sites offering them and whalah! Your up and running!

If your using Typepad it shouldn't be much different...

Good luck!

[Donna B.]

The most work in creating a website is content. Having it set up blog-style helps in that respect, but you're also going to need several basic information pages along with it.

I use wordpress for my blog and I'm not that excited about it.

This is the only website (other than my blog) that I've designed that's still up:

http://www.valpolawreview.org/

and, as you can see the inheriting law review editors were not interested in maintaining it. (If they'd asked, I would have continued doing it for them free of charge, but they didn't).

So, you can tell that I am a complete amateur at website design, but I do have the software needed.

I'm off to Colorado the next 2-3 weeks (no firm end time) for a family reunion and the birth of grandchild #4, but after that I'll be able to devote as much time as needed in whatever capacity I can best help.

[urthshu]

Donna B. -
Its not bad code-wise, and there's no telling how much control you may have had on design decisions. If you don't mind constructive comment, you just needed to watch cross-browser compatibility, but thats hard to control for in machine-generated sites, I admit.

[Donna B.]

Thank you urthshu! I don't mind constructive criticism at all.

I was told to use the Harvard Law Review site as a guide for the general look and to make certain other pages look as much like the print edition as possible, ie, the members page.

I was aware of browser issues and might have eventually figured out how to fix them.

It sounds like you might be much better qualified to volunteer for the web design!

[baldilocks]

Donna,

I'm thinking of just making it a blog but I'll decide in the morning. Early.

[Mary in CO]

Side ? to Baldi: The caption to the Feb 2008 photo of the school on the PicApp web site states that "the school was funded by US Senator Barak Obama". Does this mean that he's finally honoring his pledge?

[baldilocks]

I'm thinking 'no.' But I will finding out.

[PTA Mom]

My school, already 501(c)3, wants to donate books/supplies to this cause by 10/31/08. Can you help us?

[baldilocks]

Excellent! Go to obamaschool.org.