WASSAN -THRIVE -
Website Development Workshop for NGO’s
6th
- – 8th January 2006
REPORT ON WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS
Focus
Services
Rendered
Charges for
services
Web
Development Methodology
Workshop
events
Workshop material generated
Details of Attendees at the workshop &
Domains Registered
Organizers and Contact Details
WASSAN And THRIVE conducted a Workshop on Website Development for
NGOs, between 6th Jan 2006 and
8th Jan 2006,
at WASSAN Resource centre, located in Tarnaka, Secunderabad.
Focus:
The main focus of the workshop was to help NGOs create an online
presence for their organization through a website, giving
information to visitors regarding their programmes, activities,
concepts, and ideology. Keeping in view the ‘Not-for-profit’
nature of these organizations it was decided that very nominal
fees be charged for the services rendered.
The workshop was conducted with logistics being handled by WASSAN,
and support for web-services through Domain registration and
Web-hosting being provided by THRIVE. Team members from WASSAN and
THRIVE actively participated and made valuable contributions in
the website development processes.
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Services Rendered::
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Registration of a Domain name for the organization’s website,
using the ‘.org’ or ‘.org.in’ extensions.
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Designing a website for the organization using available
templates, with content being provided by the organization.
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Hosting the content for the website with a reliable and
inexpensive Web-Hosting company.
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Charges for services:
A very nominal charge of Rs. 1500/- was charged per
delegate, to cover Website registration and web hosting, for a
period of one year. Organizations need to renew their domain names
and hosting every year.
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Web Development
Methodology:
As the focus was to develop as many websites as possible within
the stipulated duration of the workshop, the following strategy
was adopted:
1. Delegates from participating organizations were appraised
well in advance of the workshop, as to the material that they
needed to bring with them to the workshop.
2. Delegates were requested to bring most content about their
organization to be included in the website, such as write-ups,
images, graphics etc., in digitized format so as to reduce
production time. In cases where digitized versions were not
available, such as field photographs, paper clippings, brochures,
etc., provision was made to digitize these items by scanning them
and using the extracts.
3. Requirements of the organization website were collected
and specified through a brief interactive session between the
delegate and web developers. These included details such as Name
and Address of the Organization, Domain Name required, email Id’s
required, sections needed within the website, and choice of a
design template for the website from a wide range of readymade,
free templates.
4. Based on the above requirement specifications, a supply
chain mode of development was adopted, where the development of
the website would be carried out in several incremental states as
given below:
a. Gathering of requirements and generation of
specifications.
b. Search and registration of appropriate domain name.
c. Choosing of an appropriate design template for the
website.
d. Customization of the design template as per the
organizations requirements, such as incorporation or creation of
logo, creation of template pages for website sections, and
providing navigation through hyper linking the pages.
e. Incorporation of the digitized content into the specified
sections.
f. Testing and fine-tuning the website, preparing it for
upload to the hosting service.
g. Configuration of web hosting service, creation of user
accounts, and uploading content to the website.
Team members from WASSAN, THRIVE, assumed different
roles based on their experience and expertise, to play a part of
the supply chain model.
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Workshop events:
The workshop spanned over 3 days, 6th, 7th,
and 8th January 2006. During the 3 days allocated for
the workshop, delegates whose work was not completed on the same
day due to lack of data or non-availability in digital form, were
requested to come on the subsequent day with the required details.
In certain cases where required content was not immediately
available with the delegates, option was given to send the content
at the earliest in digital form through email to the web
developers who will incorporate the items into the website. The
last day of the workshop was dedicated to completion of the
spillover work from the previous two days.
Sufficient workstations and peripherals were provided by WASSAN,
with one computer dedicated for Internet connectivity, which as
used to perform Domain name registrations and account
configurations.
Skilled staff from WASSAN and THRIVE helped in all states of
website development which helped reduce production time
effectively and close the workshop on a successful note.
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Workshop material
generated:
·
Details regarding the visiting organizations, and their
requirements.
·
Material in digital form such as scanned images, brochures, etc.
·
Websites developed for the organizations.
·
Content, both in digital and print, left out by the participating
delegates.
Copies of the above digital content exist on the WASSAN
computers used during the workshop and it is recommended that a
backup copy of these materials be kept for future reference.
Copy of respective websites developed and source files was
handed over to the delegates in digital form. Further, a usage
manual will be provided to all organizations within a week, which
will include hosting account details, and instructions on
configuring email accounts, managing the website, uploading
content to the website using FTP, and other useful information
regarding the system.
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Totally, 10 NGOs participated in the workshop, to get their
websites developed. The names of the organizations and domain
names registered are as given below:
|
S. No. |
Organization |
Domain
Name Registered |
|
1 |
Rural &
Environment Development Society (REDS), Kadiri, AP. |
www.redsap.org.in |
|
2 |
Society
for Women Education and Environment Trainings (SWEET),
Kattangur, AP. |
www.sweet.org.in |
|
3 |
Praja
Abyudaya Samastha (PAS), Ramakuppam, AP. |
www.pas.org.in |
|
4 |
Gokul
Unity of Agricultural and Rural Development Society |
www.guards.org.in |
|
5 |
PILUPU,
Bhongir, AP. |
www.pilupu.org |
|
6 |
Vikasam,
AP. |
www.vikasam.org
(to be uploaded) |
|
7 |
Society
for Integrated Development Services (SIDS), Kamareddy, AP. |
www.sids.org.in |
|
8 |
Social
Organization for Uplift of Rural Community and Environment
(SOURCE), Armoor, AP. |
www.source.org.in |
|
9 |
Home
Sapiens, Hyderabad, AP. |
www.human.org.in |
|
10 |
Modern
Architects of Rural India (MARI)
Warangal, AP. |
www.mariap.org.in |
|
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|
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Organizers and Contact
Details:
Hosts:
Watershed Support Services and Activities Network (WASSAN)
12-13-452, Street No: 1, Tarnaka, Secunderabad- 500 017. Andhra
Pradesh, India Phone: 040 55284580,
e-mail:
wassan@eth.net. web: (www.wassan.org)
Technical Support, Domain Registration & Web Hosting:
Volunteers for Rural Health, Education, & Information Technology
(THRIVE)
Sagar Rd., Chintapalli (M), Nalgonda Dist.,
Andhra Pradesh,
India. Mobile: 9849107886,
E-mail:
akalyan911@yahoo.com web: (www.thrive.in)
(The above contact information has been provided to the
participating organizations in case they need any assistance in
the future)
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Details of the above workshop will be made available on the
THRIVE website at the following URL:
http://www.thrive.in/webworkshop.htm
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