| St. Scholastica Students Help to Improve Duluth LISC's New Website! |
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CSS students bring the Web to nonprofits The cost? Absolutely nothing.“It gave us the experience of taking a client’s requirements and vision into account in designing a site,” said Rodgers, a senior from Salmon Arm, British Columbia. He said Park Hill approached the project with few preconceived ideas of what the site should look like or how it should operate, leaving room for creativity but also making it difficult to pick a specific direction at first. The actual work of putting together a site that worked on multiple platforms was somewhat tedious, according to Rodgers. Kar explained that making sure the page would be compatible with multiple browsers was more difficult than they had imagined. But knowing that her work could genuinely assist a worthy organization made the project special, said Kar, a sophomore student from India. “It was a thrilling experience, because this was my first real client-driven project,” she said. Rich gave the finished product a glowing review during an open house last week at St. Scholastica. “It far exceeds my expectations,” she said. “They did a great job.” Jennifer Rosato, an associate professor for computer information services, teaches a class every other year in which students are assigned to work with nonprofits on Web site projects. She said there is more demand for services than students to deliver them, and she consequently had to turn away some requests this year. Computer coding skills alone don’t guarantee students ’ success in the project. Besides learning how to work with and manage clients, Rosato said the nonprofit exercise provides students with a chance to make a difference. “It fits with the college’s Benedictine values of serving community and helping others,” she said. |