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Alameda County Foster Youth Alliance site redesign allows staff to save hours every week by centralizing media presence and communications.
Alameda County Foster Youth Alliance site redesign allows staff to save hours every week by centralizing media presence and communications.
Designed and developed a series of custom WordPress plugins, custom theme and companion Ruby on Rails site allowing the Alameda County Foster Youth Alliance to use their WordPress installation as far more than a simple blog.
The custom functionality developed for the Foster Youth Alliance allows them maintain a centralized, searchable database of member agencies and Foster Care related events, to streamline generation their weekly email newsletter, and to share information with foster care professionals, lawmakers and other stakeholders, all while promoting awareness of the role of the Foster Youth Alliance brand in transforming the lives of thousands of foster and probation youth.
The newsletter generator plugin allows the agency to build their weekly newsletter by dragging- and dropping recent posts into the appropriate sections of a flexible newsletter template using a simple, intuitive interface with live preview capabilities. After saving the newsletter structure, a single click submits the generated html to a preprocessor which prepares the newsletter content for distribution via email by updating the html structure and bringing all CSS styles inline to support viewing in major web-based email services.
The “Point of Contact” plugin allows the agency to maintain a public-facing database of member agencies, allowing visitors to find services for foster and probation youth using live filtering based on types of services provided, age range and locations served.
The “Event Manager” plugin allows the agency to generate a centralized collection of Foster Care-related events, searchable by date, time, and category.
The final plugin developed to date allows site editors to select featured content for display on the homepage, allowing the editor to target content to either the custom slideshow or the flow.
Integration with Facebook, Twitter and MySpace allows the Foster Youth Alliance to effortlessly reach out to the Foster Care community on a daily basis.
Design and content strategy in collaboration with non-profit strategist Dana Mandolesi.
Some of the features that helped the Foster Youth Alliance be more productive.
Some of the documentation behind the Foster Youth Alliance redesign.
An example use case analysis from the FYA redesign; one completed for each content area for targeted primary user groups.
Existing vs. revised site architecture and navigation.
An example use case analysis from the FYA redesign; one completed for each content area for targeted primary user groups.
Some of the documentation behind the Foster Youth Alliance redesign.
One of the use case analyses for the FYA redesign; one for each user group intended to access each content area.