For immediate release
12th September, 2011
Designers, geeks and charities unite for 2nd annual #24theweb charity web design challenge
Got an amazing cause but an unprofessional drab website? Or worse still – no website at all? 24 The Web needs you! The second annual 24 hour web design challenge will take place on the 29th October 2011 in Dublin. Over a 24 hour period, 3 teams of 7 professionals will each design, build and populate a brand new website for a worthy cause. The event, which takes place during Design Week 2011, is kindly supported by Blacknight.
Making the initial call-out for causes, 24 The Web founder and web designer Stewart Curry said “Last year’s 24 The Web challenge was a huge success and we’re hoping to build on that with this year’s challenge. We’re looking for really worthy causes who couldn’t afford a decent website in a million years! With such a tight timescale to work with, we also need nominees to have a good pool of decent content already created, like photos, videos, testimonials, and copy about the organisation/cause ready to go.”
“We also need web design professionals to volunteer” he added. “We’re looking for programmers, coders, content writers, project managers and anyone who feels they may have something to add to the project. We need 3 teams made up of 6 defined roles and a wildcard, so if you can form a full team with friends/colleagues all the better! All the details of roles and team make-up are available on our website 24theweb.com.”
24 The Web was devised to illustrate the importance of design, standards, content and process in developing a web site, in a fun and challenging way. Last year, websites were built for The Myasthenia Gravis Association, Hand in Hand and the Musical Youth Foundation.
Speaking a year after her site was designed, Karen Clancy, National Coordinator with the The Myasthenia Gravis Association said “Since our new website went live we have been able to provide a much better service to our members and the general public. It has also helped us to raise funds by promoting our fundraising events and best of all, the design team made it simple for us to edit and update ourselves, saving us even more time and money. I was working with a fantastic bunch of volunteers and our charity is indebted to 24 The Web and all the volunteers who worked so hard over 24 hours to deliver the website we needed.”
24 The Web is also seeking additional sponsors as well as donations of food and drink to keep hungry volunteers going. Please see www.24theweb.com for details.
To find out more about getting involved visit www.24theweb.com and follow @24theweb on twitter or the #24theweb hashtag
About our sponsors:
Blacknight are an Irish based, ICANN accredited domain registrar and hosting company. Recipients of several awards for their revolutionary use of social media, Blacknight are one of Europe’s most cutting edge Internet companies. Blacknight constantly seek to lead the way by introducing innovative solutions for its client base and provide dedicated servers and colocation as well as a comprehensive range of Microsoft Windows and Linux based hosting plans and domain name registration services to business globally”
For more information and to arrange an interview please contact Emily Tully, Emily Tully PR & Online Communications on 086 385 6225 or email emily@emilytully.com
