We had 30 votes for the contest and each of the designs were within 3 votes of each other. VERY CLOSE.

The winner of our WDA website design is





Thanks again to everyone who entered and to all of you who voted!
We will move forward with this design and build a sample portfolio as we go. Stayed tuned for more progress!

We are a worldwide community of artists who will offer artistic services to qualified non-profit organizations free of charge.

<sub>We realize that some organizations have internal capabilities but many do not. Some will not want/need our help, while others will consider this a gift. Commonly, social care organizations have poor visual appeal, and most of them don’t even know it! We have the ability to pull our worldwide resources together and donate some spare time to redesign or create a brand new visual identity and more for the non-profit organizations that can use our help.




. Define our mission statement
. Develop Website including showcase portfolio
. Launch the project through various PR venues
. Begin reviewing the applications
. Start projects!!</sub>



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What are we up to? Glad you asked!

Thanks to everyone who has submitted images for consideration for the online portfolio. We can still use more, especially in photography and logo design. Feel free to continue to note us with items in your galleries here that you feel might be appropriate. (limit 3 per artist/designer)

Secondly, we'd like to take a minute to introduce you to the WDA webmaster, ~GuyLeech. He will be quite active in the web design quality control role of our organization along with =mokiok who has generously provided us with free web hosting for our site when it's ready to launch through his up and coming hosting service Tikalhosting. _{(Contest details will be up within the week)} We are very fortunate to have these guys, and ALL of you on board!

A few words from Guy-

"Hey, I'm Guy Leech, the new webmaster for WDA4Life. I'm 18, and live in Canberra, Australia, where I'm studying a Diploma of Graphic Design. As for a bit of background on me, I've lived in Sydney and Canberra, and I spent 4 years in France when I was about 10. I then moved back to Australia, and have since been studying, really. I dropped out of college halfway through year 11, as I didn't see the relevance of 'Romantic English Literature' to anything I wanted to do in life, and since then have been through a few different school, none of which I stayed at long. However, I've chosen to do this Graphic Design course, rather than being told to do something, and I'm really enjoying it, and going to stick with it.

I'm a fan of all things related to computers, which I've been fiddling with since I was about 15. My main focus is in coding websites, but I'm also good with hardware, and have average programming ability in a lot of languages. I'm a standards fanatic, and I read articles on 'good' web design every day, as well as information architecture, upcoming standards, so on, and so forth. I'm mostly self taught, though I did about half of a Diploma of IT. What else can I say? My other loves are skiing, myself, philosophy, and cooking (I LOVE it)!

I joined WDA4Life after seeing it on designersCouch, as I'd been thinking about doing something similar for a while now. As I make websites when I'm doing nothing else (or make them anyway), I thought I might as well make them mean something, so here I am. I'll be coordinating the WDA website once we get the design competition underway, so I look forward to seeing you around.

Cheers
- Guy"

Hope all is well and we will continue to give you updates as things progress.







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For info on how to enter the web design contest, please read CONTEST DETAILS JOURNAL



Contents coming soon.

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Below is our current international listing of Coordinators and Collaborators.

Please take a moment to view your listing and be sure that you are listed correctly. Comment on this journal to confirm that your listing is correct so that we know you’ve seen it and are still on board with us.

The second thing we need you to do if you are ALREADY LISTED HERE. Is to include in your comment any secondary skills you have other than your primary skill listed that you will be willing to collaborate on and a level of 1 - ninja that you think your skill set qualifies for.

_{If you do not see your name listed, but wish to be listed with us as a Coordinator or a Collaborator, NOTE US.}



Coordinators:

~garath69 3D—Germany
~invaderchciken 3D—Australia
=kheng 3D—Australia


~e3rian Concept Design- Australia
~Flip-Moss Concept Design-- Australia
~OIlusionista-brushes Concept Design- Brazil
~yorunomegami Concept Design—Italy


~erakor Copy Writing—Belgium


~Adhago Digital Media—Brazil
~alreem Digital Media—Saudi Arabia
=Breogan Digital Media--Ireland
@karyaazure Digital Media-- USA
~OIlusionista-brushes Digital Media -- Brazil
=Nico1 Digital Media--Italy
*Vysionous Digital Media--Egypt


~Flip-Moss Logo Design/Visual ID- Australia
~mD-06 Logo Design/Visual ID--Austria
~OIlusionista-brushes Logo Design/Visual ID-- Brazil


~dudewithbraces Photography--Canada
=grunta-nz Photography—New Zealand
=JDiPierro Photography-- USA
=ixeo Photography--France
=RockstarVanity Photography—United Kingdom
~sem404 Photography--Spain
=ssecret Photography--USA


~BlakkReign Photomanipulators—USA
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<sub>What are we up to? Glad you asked!

`misskittyoooo has designed us a SWEET journal CSS layout. There are more elements to it than what you see here, but we're taking our time in implementing everything so that we (I) don't screw it up! If you have time, you should thank her profusely for helping us out

By the end of the weekend we hope to have everything in place and can continue giving updates on where things stand. Just as you don't always know what is going on behind the scenes of dA, we are doing things here that you might not know about. Once everything is in place, our WDA community will know things as the behind the scenes people do!

We will be putting together a team of people that will be responsible for communication to the potential non profits in explaining what we do and finding out if our services are needed and if they are qualified to do be candidate for our work. If you have STRONG WRITTEN and VERBAL skills and feel comfortable making these contacts via email, please note us. Otherwise, the list of Coordinators and Collaborators will be posted shortly.

Thanks for your patience!!

Hope all is well and we will continue to give you updates as things progress.</sub>







We are a worldwide community of artists who will offer artistic services to qualified non-profit organizations free of charge.

_{We realize that some organizations have internal capabilities but many do not. Some will not want/need our help, while others will consider this a gift. Commonly, social care organizations have poor visual appeal, and most of them don’t even know it! We have the ability to pull our worldwide resources together and donate some spare time to redesign or create a brand new visual identity and more for the non-profit organizations that can use our help.}



. Develop a CSS design layout for this journal
. Define our mission statement and tag line
. Launch an avatar
. Develop internal coordination structure (getting there!)
. Create e-marketing materials
. Create list of organizations to qualify


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Thank you to all who voted!

We recieved a total of 40 votes for this contest. We really appreciate your input here! The winner of this contest won by a single vote

Our new avatar was designed by ~BlakkReign and right behind him was ~Adhago who missed tying the winner by a one vote. Good job to everyone who entered and congrats to ~BlakkReign for the win.

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_{First Entry!
1 by ~Entoxica
2 by ~BlakkReign
3 by ~Adhago
4 by ~dd45
5 by ~Roxcessories
6 by ~Primeapekingdom
7 by =X4MHD
8 by *doorstopPhotos
9 by =djkayuk}



WHO WE ARE:

We are a worldwide community of artists who will offer artistic services to qualified non-profit organizations free of charge.

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HOW DOES ALL THIS WORK?

Together, we’ll build a list of organizations that could be supported by us. After this, we must make sure that the organizations are:

. NON profit organizations
. NON sexist
. NON racist, or any type of anger, violence or discrimination supporters
. CLEAN financial background

At this point, the coordinators will define what will be tasks to be done for the selected organizations, according to each institution’s needs. Groups will be set, according to each collaborator skills and time available.


WHERE ARE THE WORKS GOING TO BE SHOWN

. Our dA community
. Design/Artistic communities
. Our future website
. Our e-zine
. On a future printed version that collaborators could use as portfolio
. Your family and friends


HOW WILL WE SHOW HOW IT WORKS?

If the organization has a design, we will provide a "before & after" series:

. BEFORE: will show the actual logos, websites, visual identity, folders etc.
. AFTER: a reshape or redesign, the reborn (with their permission of course)

The artist/designer on the project will have a great exposure and the opportunity to comment about his or her work and it will be added to the gallery here on dA for all to see. The artist will also be able to share the following:

. The materials or software used on the project
. What concepts were used
. The benefits of using the determined programming method
. The experience of working with the social organization
. And add anything else that might be related to the project that they want to share.

There are different ways that you can get involved, after you read this journal, if you feel that you’d like to become a part of our network, simply note us! Keep in mind, we’re in the development process now and on different time zones, so if you don’t get a response back right away, please be patient.

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