Help us design a website and logo to promote the woolen products
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Leonie, Tim and Ilona as part of a school assignment had collected information on marketing the woollen products made by the women of Yoshinkhel. You can see their final document attached.
With the help of Third World Craft and a volunteer the current website www.yoshinkhelcraft.com.np was finally created.
The website presents the products and both individuals interested in buying the products and also wholesellers are addressed.
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Any one working on this? i can help
Dear Julien,
Warm welcome!
Till now no one is working on it. We would be glad if you could work on it. Any information you may require, please do not hesitate to post.
All the best.
Sabina
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Hello,
We are a web hosting and development company in the U.K. Since starting we hve put aside 20% of our server space and programming resources to provide free websites to charities. We have grown a lot and we have increased our charitable space to 30%.We would be happy to build and host the site for you.
I will send you a message with our website information so that you can take a look at some of our work.
Regards,
Catherine
Dear Catherine,
That's wonderful! I look forward :)
Kind regards,
Angelika
We have set up the development site at the following URL:
http://web-hosting-wales.net/yoshinkhel/
The basic skeleton of the site is up to help everyone brainstorm different graphic and/or functionality ideas. Feel free to use the development site as you would any other site.
This will be the URL on which the site is developed. Once it is complete, we will move it to a Yoshinkhel domain (which we will purchase when the site is ready to go live). I want to take a moment and go over our process.
Our programmers work in Agile teams, specifically SCRUM teams. As such, the development of the Yoshinkhel site will happen in phases, each phase can be broken down into two parts (requirements gathering and coding). The first part involves members of nabuur and the Yoshinkhel community letting us know how they want the site to look and what features/functionality they would like to have. We will put together a "to-do" list from this information and get a final o.k. from Sabina/Agelika. We will then move into the coding part. During this time, my programmers will code the various requests gathered during the first part of the phase. Any additional requests/changes will be put into a queue to be discussed after the coding is done. To state it another way, I do not alter requirements after we have started coding.
Once coding is done, we will update the development URL above with the new code and discuss any change requests that are in the queue. If the site is ready to go live, then we will purchase the domain and move the code over. If there are additional changes that need to be made, then we will make another "to-do" list and begin another coding session. This phase is repeated until the site is ready to go live.
That's our process. We are now in requirements gathering mode. Please take a look at the development site and post feature requests and graphic design ideas to this thread. Nothing on the development site is absolutely set; everything is fair game for change. So do not hold anything back. I am planning on allowing a week for anyone who is interested to look over the site and post ideas. If you think I need to allow more time, let me know. After that week, Sabina, Angelika and I will finalise the "to-do" list. I will post the final list on this thread and give my programming team the o.k. to begin.
Best,
Catherine
Christine- this is absolutely terrific! Many thanks to you and your team for getting this task to a point where we can all actually visualise it!
My general feedback so far is that I found if quite easy to use and it clear and easy to navigate. All the Tabs were self explanatory. I particularly liked the rolling pictures which sat above the story of Yoshinkel. That made a huge impact on the content of the story.
I liked the newsletter aspect of it and the possibility to put up posts too. I guess e'll need to do some "dummy" shopping to get through all the steps.
So basically, the template you've used is great. Once we badge it with a distinct logo and colour scheme I'm sure it is a website that people all over the world will be able to visit with ease.
My final commennt is that if you add any new functionality over the next couple of weeks could you please let us know so we can review it?
thanks again Carolyn
Carolyn,
Thanks for taking a look. The way we work is to spend the next week getting a list of feature and functionality requests from the Nabuur and Yoshinkhel community. Then we narrow down the requested features to a list of things we will do. After that, we do not add any new features. So, we will not be adding any new features or functionality unless they are:
(1) Specifically requested by someone from the Nabuur or Yoshinkhel community within the next week; and
(2) Approved by Sabina, Angelika and myself
Working this way keeps the project moving along swiftly and reduces the risk of getting bogged down with feature requests during coding.
The template is a good starting point in that it provides the right areas for featuring products and is not overly crowded. You mentioned the logo and colour scheme. This is an area that needs some brainstorming.
Starting with the logo. I need an over-riding vision to inform my graphic designer. Something that sums up what Yoshinkhel is about. Preferably a word, Unity, Growth, Education ... whatever. Something that will inspire him to create. What does Yoshinkhel want the logo to represent?
The colour scheme. There are some limitations. First, we cannot utilise the colour scheme from the catalogue. It looks good in print, but does not translate well to the web. There are accessibility issues with that particular palette. So, with that in mind we need to come up with something else for the site. For the benefit of neighbours who have not done this before, here are things to keep in mind when choosing a website's colour scheme.
In addition to reflecting the Yoshinkhel brand, colours will influence visitor’s mood and emotions; we need to think about how we want visitors to 'feel' when they open the site. For better or worse, colours carry psychological connotations. So, what (or how) do we want visitors to feel?
There are a few more, specific guidelines
(1) The scheme should have no more than 5 colours (including a light background colour and a dark text colour)
(2) Text colour should be black (or close to it)
With all that in mind, we should be able to come up with a colour scheme that works.
Hi again, soemthing that is missing from the website is an invitation to hobby or professional designers to get in contact with Sabina if they would like to pursue the opportunity to have the women knit specific designs for them. I am assuming SDabina that this is tsillsomething youa nd the women will consider. I am not sure if this requires a whole new page OR can we put it under Wholsale? What does every one think?
Angelika- i recall presviously there has been discussions on Terms and Agreements. Has anyone written a document on this? If so we can use it for the wesbite. If not- can someone put down some simple points regarding this from the discussions we've had on-line?
Carolyn
Dear Carolyn,
Nobody ever came up with the Terms and Conditions and we didn't really have much of a discussion about them either :( I just had a request from a new neighbour, Shruti, to say what we need help with - I will direct her to that!
Best, Angelika
Hello,
I think the call to hobby and professional designers should go on it's own page. Possibly a page titled 'Your Help' or something similar. That page could list ways in which people can help, one of which could be to help with design.
Regards,
Catherine
Hi Catherine,
My name is Mika Ortiz and I am working on the knitwear catalog. I've collected high quality product photos from Sabina and Freddie, and I expect more from Sabina soon. Would you like me to send them all along to you?
Mika
Mika,
That would be great. If it is easier for you I can set up an ftp account for you so that you can upload them directly to the development server. I will send you a private message with instructions and login credentials.
Also, please let me know if you have any suggestions about the website.
Regards,
Catherine
Catherine,
FTP is perfect, thanks. I've just uploaded the photos to your server. There will be more from Sabina soon.
With regard to suggestions for the website, after looking at the template, I think it should feel more organic to reflect the uniqueness of the knitwear. I also agree with Carolyn in that I think its important to convey the vibrancy, richness and warmth of the woolen products and the community of Yoshinkhel.
I like the flash slideshow on the About Us page. Many of the photos are truely breathtaking, and I think photos like these, along with written content about daily life in Yoshinkhel, will inspire website visitors to buy the products and/or get involved in the project somehow.
Hope that helps. =)
Mika
Mika,
Thanks for uploading the pictures. I also appreciate you looking over the website and giving feeback. Would you mind elaborating on 'organic'? What does the term mean to you (as relates to the website)? Are you thinking about colour, layout/design, or both?
Regards,
Catherine
Catherine,
When I think organic as applied to the website, I am imagining possible combinations of several elements, including color, layout and design. For example, including curvilinear lines or shapes in the layout, possibly working woven product textures into the design somehow, a rich and warm color palette, and fonts that are complimentary to such a design but easy to read.
Mika