Americas.org
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The homepage features a broad cross-fading image, access to upcoming events, and social media presence. -
Internal pages such as the About lose the broad image for a more subtle look, though we retain the page retain the sidebar. -
One of the most important things to the Resource Center are the coffee hours, Spanish classes, and social events they hold. -
The gallery pulls in a Flickr slideshow of photos. They opted to use this to explain the creation of a mural painted on the outside of their building.
Tools
Ruby on Rails, Radiant CMS, Prototype, Scriptaculous, flickr_Fu, HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Slicehost, Capistrano, and git.
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<p>The Resource Center of the Americas informs, educates and organizes to promote human rights, economic justice, democratic participation, and cross cultural understanding in the context of globalization in the Americas.
For 2009 F1 Web Challenge, my team, Ruby Users of Minnesota, was paired with The Resource Center of the Americas with the goal of creating a fully functional web site in 24 hours. The Resource Center identified a CMS, event listings, a cleaner donation workflow, among other things as their priorities. My talents in HTML and CSS were put to use in converting the designers mock up to a web page. I also helped to bring Flickr photos into the site. Though we did not win the competition, our team was successful in implementing the requested feature set in a pleasing design.</p>