CODERS 4 CHARITIES - ST. LOUIS

By the Community, For the Community

Prior Event:  Oct 16th-18th, 2009

 

Violence Prevention Center of Southwestern Illinois (aka VPC)

http://www.vpcswi.org

The VPC is a full service, 24-hour, domestic violence service provider. The VPC’s service area consists of St. Clair, Monroe, and Randolph counties in Southwestern Illinois. The VPC provides comprehensive residential and non-residential services to victims of domestic violence and their dependant children. Services include: emergency shelter, a 24-hour domestic violence crisis hotline, group and individual adult counseling and therapy, group and individual children’s counseling and therapy, police advocacy, court advocacy, safety planning, prevention and education services, and assistance with basic needs such as: food, clothing, medicine, etc.

The team lead provided the following summary:

The Violence Prevention Center of Southwestern IL has an existing website that does not provide any ability to easily add or remove content.  They also are unable to accept donations on-line, something that other non-profits are able to do.  Jessica Brandon was seeking a website makeover that would give the VPC these capabilities as well as provide a foundation for them to add further capabilities down the road.

Jessica Brandon provided much of the new content she wanted on the website and through the weekend our team accomplished the following:

·         Install of DotNetNuke v4.8.2 and upgrades to v5.1.4

·         Creation of a DNN Skin and layout

·         Loading of content into DNN

·         Configuration of Forms & Lists module

Configuration of Calendar & Events module

·         Creation of Volunteer, Board Member, and Committee member forms which can be submitted online

·         Configuration of Paypal donation module

·         Configuration of a private wiki to store helpful hints & tricks for working with DNN

·         Review of new website and basic DNN training with Jessica

I cannot say enough good things about Jessica and the C4C team that stepped up to help.  They all performed phenomenally and we look forward to helping the VPC get the website into production over the next few weeks.