Thursday, 9 July 2009

Helping Groups to Grow website launched

If you follow me on Twitter you may have read about this last week, but 1st July saw the launch of a website I’ve spent a few months working on: Helping Groups to Grow.

Helping Groups to Grow screenshot

Helping Groups to Grow is a lottery-funded non-profit organisation that supports drug and alcohol misusers through group and one-to-one sessions across Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Powys.

I’m particularly proud of this website because it’s not often I can say my work is contributing to a cause that is genuinely making a difference to people’s lives. The south of Wales has had an increasingly high-profile problem with teenage suicides in the last 24 months, so the Helping Groups to Grow cause is one that I feel passionately about and am proud to be associated with.

Credit must go to Fearghal of The Good Folk who managed the project and oversaw the creative design. I built the front-end of the site and developed the back end using ExpressionEngine. I documented my experiences with ExpressionEngine in a previous post.

I have a major overhaul of my website planned soon, and my seriously out-of-date portfolio will be getting a much needed kick up the bum. More details of Helping Groups to Grow, and all the other projects I’ve spent the last year working on, will be available soon.

One lonely comment

It’s always great to hear when someone has worked on a project that not only involves a good (and valuable) cause, but which is also personally fulfilling and enjoyable.

I look forward to seeing more of what you’ve been working on in recent times. I’m starting to turn my thoughts towards the redesign of my own site – all the best with your revamp.

What are your thoughts?