Website Developer for New Website (2014)
After the Harvest is a small startup organization devoted to distributing donated farm produce to area food pantries to feed hungry people in the Missouri-Kansas area. They formed the organization after breaking ties with a national organization, and they needed to set up shop quick. The organization with two paid staff needed an efficient way to communicate with volunteers, farmers, pantries and donors. Facebook and Twitter helped, but a website was crucial for After the Harvest to build their organization's following.
My role involved organizing a discovery session, gathering photos and text from staff members, selecting the WordPress site theme and plugin modules, building the image sliders, menu navigation and page layout, as well as posting events, images, and other content. Additionally, I built a Google Analytics dashboard to display website statistics.
Launch Date:
August 4, 2014
Content Management System:
WordPress 3.9.1
Site Theme:
Themefusion's Avada was selected because it's one of the most popular and versatile WordPress themes at a cost of $55, the only cost for the website project, including all donated labor. The theme has a built-in mobile-friendly design, flexible styling and navigation, easy Google Analytics integration, along with state-of-the-art image sliders.
Site Plugin Modules:
- Timely All-in-One Event Calendar
- Contact Form 7
- Media Replace - Allows replacing media without deleting and uploading.
- Mailchimp for Wordpress plugin provides integration with the After the Harvest Mailchimp listserv so supporters can sign up to receive an e-newsletter maintained on Mailchimp.
Project duration and labor:
The project took about 1 month and 30 hours for two people.
Comments about the website:
- VERY nice Lisa and team! Clean - professional - great action photos....I like it a lot. Well done. -- Rob Reiman
- Really great job on the website! It's great looking, informative and (as nearly as I could tell) all the links seem to work as expected. It definitely supports the professional image of our organization. - Jim Merrill, After the Harvest board member
- Oh my goodness! What an awesome website! Thank you for all your hard work and dedication to it! - Gerardo Martinez, After the Harvest board member
- I so agree, it is fantastic. Great job Matt, Derek and Lisa!! - Mark Smith, After the Harvest board member.
- This is really great. Thanks to you, Matt and Derek for your hard work. It paid off with a beautiful website! -- Sally Luck
Google Analytics:
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| Google Analytics chart through September 23, 2014 |
