Making the site

Small update: I added ‘Helpalot on the web’ category of links on the right sidebar.

For the test version I’m writing down exactly what should be on every page. This takes a lot of time, but will make it easier to start building later on.

On Ning it is possible to litteraly copy and paste a site and just change the subject. So I copied a review site and set the subject on charities. This took me only 2 minutes, nope, I am not kidding.

This is not my main test version, my test version will probably take another month or so. For now, this pre-test version can give some good feedback for the evaluation part of the Helpalot concept.

The trick with Ning is that you can have a personal page on Ning and then you are able to login for every site made with Ning. Also you can easily build your own site.
So there is not really a personal page where you can set what charities you support (one of the important elements of the Helpalot concept), but you can evaluate.

http://helpalottesting.ning.com

Feel free to play around with it. I’m not going to spend much time there, because I have to prepare for my Mock exams next friday and my presentation at SIGCHI for 8 of june.

Yet another logo, this time a little less aggressive. I tried to make it a little bit more ‘loveable’, without making it a whimp..

I got bored with the grey one. So I added color and shadow to see how that looked. Still, the shape is not fixed yet. But I feel it’s getting close.

Feedback would be nice.

Another version of the Helpalot knight.

Now it looks a little more tough. Maybe a little bit too tough for a charity site?

For comparison, here’s the version I started off with.

My EMMA (European Media Master of Arts, emma.hku.nl) consists of a group project (done, www.blockblazers.nl), a personal project (Helpalot) and a thesis.
My thesis question:

What does the new digital dimension of social networks bring about in the way an individual can influence its social context?

My thesis outline:
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