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Hoffman: If we release you, will you give an undertaking never again to aid Jews?
Klepinin: I can say no such thing. I am a Christian and must act as I must.
Hoffman (striking Klepinin across the face): Jew lover! How dare you talk of helping those swine as being a Christian duty!
Klepinin (recovering his balance, held up the cross from his cassock): Do you know this Jew?

— Fr. Dimitri Klepinin

United Way of the Columbia-Willamette

Posted: 18 Apr, 2011 |

The United Way of the Columbia-Willamette needed to implement a new design using existing content while allowing for dynamic social networking elements and new marketing strategies, and they wer en't quite ready to jump into a full-fledged CMS. Working with marketing staff, I took their design template and built a standards-compliant website with Dreamweaver templates for foundational page creation, CSS for easily modifying style elements, and PHP includes to allow for quick site-wide content modifications. In addition, the site offered me the opportunity to experiment with new plugins using javascript, jQuery, Google APIs in order to integrate with social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. We also worked with and implement the recommendations of generous UW supporters who volunteered their business services to provide SEO analysis. Finally, the site is fully documented in a wiki so that permanent employees can update the website without needing to hire a full-developer, all part of United Way's strategy to reduce their own overhead in order to better serve the needs of their local community.

Features:

Standards-compliant website built in Dreamweaver.
Developed templates for foundational pages, CSS for easily modifying style elements, and PHP includes to allow for quick site-wide content modifications.
Implemented plugins using JavaScript, jQuery, Google APIs in order to integrate with social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
Completed SEO optimization.
3rd-party donation integration.
Google Analytics goal and conversion tracking for both local and third-party (secure donation) pages.
Fully documented site in a wiki.

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United Way of the Columbia-Willamette

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