One of my earliest memories is standing on a street corner in the Mission district of San Francisco with my mom -- she’s handing out fliers and talking to passersby about the (first) Iraq War. Activism and working for social justice is in my blood. I’m filled with pride every time we launch a website or finish a project because I know how important our clients’ work is in bettering the world.
A few weeks back, we launched the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s new website. NAACP LDF is the nation’s oldest civil rights law firm. LDF works in the highest levels of our justice system and congress to protect our most basic rights. LDF came to EchoDitto in early March in desperate need of a site overhaul – their old site was difficult to manage, full of old content and didn’t reflect the quality of their work.
This new website is a product of over 5 months of planning, development, and testing by a team of over a dozen people. I was lucky enough to be the project manager and see it go from the initial idea to wireframes to a live website!
Some highlights:
- Cool search tool for cases and issues LDF works on: http://naacpldf.org/program-search & publications http://naacpldf.org/publication-search
- Dynamic home page with a list of news updates and related issues/cases.
- Dynamic program area landing pages. For example, http://naacpldf.org/category/criminal-justice
- Case spotlights on various pages like: http://naacpldf.org/ways-give
I’d like to thank Actual Size Creative who did a superb job on the design and all the great folks at LDF including Mel and Charles who never thought in a million years they would learn what a nodequeue was.
Tony Guzmán, Project Manager, is a lifelong activist. Tony was born and raised in San Francisco and has worked as a community organizer on environmental and anti-nuclear issues. Tony is passionate about baseball, Mexican food, and hip-hop.
