CASA Superhero 5k Run: First Endorsement Website

     About 8 weeks ago, my friend Erin and I were approached by CASA of Kansas City. CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) is a wonderful organization that assists in legal cases involving abused children, giving them a voice in court. We were asked to create a website for their first ever Superhero 5k Run. A meeting was set for the date December 5th. It was a little nerve racking, this being our first endorsement project, but the women we met with could not have been more kind. We met with Di Topjon, the Events & Communications Manager for CASA of Johnson & Wyandotte Counties and Kris Mattern, their Marketing Chair. They informed us that the Event Planner for Jackson County, Lara Klover, could not make it to the meeting, but we would surely be in contact with her. Our first matter of discussion was when they would like the site to be up and how we would go about doing a WordPress site. Erin and I had never used WordPress, but liked the idea of experimenting with it. Also using WordPress allowed Erin and I to work on the website outside of the classroom. After the meeting our teacher Mr. Olson explained the bare bones of WordPress and let us go from there! 

     After messing around with WordPress, we became a bit more comfortable with it and started to add content. We received many emails regarding graphics, content, website layout and were encouraged to ask questions if in need of clarification (We asked many questions). This project was presented to us about 2 weeks before our winter break. We vowed to work on the site at least a couple hours while we were off. This would've gone as planned, but the domain name the server we had the site on expired over break. This prevented us from working on the site outside of the classroom. When we got back from break, Mr. Olson let us know what was going on. While we weren't able to work on the site outside of school, we were still able to work on it in school. This now meant that we would have to stay after school if we wanted to get hours in for the site. Staying after school actually helped us though. It gave us more time to marinate in a creative environment and we eventually changed the theme of the site. The theme we had changed the site to looked great and motivated us to work on the site even more. Erin had conflict with staying after school so I messed around with the design aspect of the theme, while she focused her attention on entering content. 

  Mr. Olson and Kris Mattern pushed through the complications of transferring the site to a new host and the site went live on February 11th. Working on this Project was a great experience and boosted our confidence as designers immensely. Getting "real-world-experience" is helpful in that it required us to step up to the plate and take charge. All together we ended up spending 56 hours on the site. Erin worked for 26 hours and I worked 30. Working on the CASA Superhero 5k Run website was an incredible and much enjoyed experience. 

The Website: CASA Superhero 5k Run

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