Saturday was what I would call a Win-Win-Win day. From 8:00 a.m. to midnight, Siobhan and I were at the Art Institute of Portland for their annual web raising event. For those of you who don’t know what the web raising event is — it is basically a barn raising for websites. Each year, AI schools around the country select a local non-profit organization, gathers a team of volunteer students, and develops a website in a day.
This was the first time an agency has been involved and it elevated the event to a new level, allowing students to see the brand we developed for the client and what they have to work with for the site development. Ant Hill guided AI students to build a website for our client Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Centers.
The day was long. I’m talking really long. But it was a really exciting day. The students worked so hard and developed an amazing site that will help Virginia Garcia communicate their core mission and brand. At midnight, the site was about 95 percent completed but wasn’t quite ready to go live, so we will be picking the development back up next Saturday to finish the site.
If you want to see a play-by-play of the event, just check out the twitter stream.
Here are a few photos from the day.
The schedule. (Crazy)
Morning food spread.
Teamwork in action.
Reviewing first set of designs.
Shiv chowing down on some Webraising food.
We look forward to seeing the final results next weekend!
-Erin