The Design Team
This website was created by students from Metropolitan State University.
Out of the need for an updated website, Barbara Gerten with the Partnership for Education of Children in Afghanistan coordinated this project with John Simmer, instructor of a Graduate level course entitled Writing and Designing for the Web (Writ 573) at Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN.
This website represents their work. Aside from some updated content and feature additions, what you see here is adapted and extended from the finished website submitted by the team. Team members are listed below along with their contributions and bio (where provided). Feel free to contact them if you're in need of a web developer or related freelance services.
This site meets current authoring standards for web design and accessibility. Text content and images were provided. Much of the text was re-written re-organized and formatted to best suite the needs of the client as well as the readability and usability of site visitors. All other aspects of the website were developed and deployed entirely by the design team. This includes: site structure, graphics, web coding and menu system, as well as search engine strategy.
Team Members
- Tom Novak is a Web designer and a technical writer. He was the lead design programmer for this project. For more information go to www.tomnovak.info.
- Dawn Van Sloun is a student at Metropolitan State University, majoring in Technical Communications. She has an educational background, and would like to combine that educational experience with the technical knowledge she has gained and work in the field of Instructional Design. Her contributions to this site were in the areas of writing and editing.
- Andrea Jackley concentrated on editing content to conform to Web usability and readability standards and contributed to the overall aesthetic design of PECA’s updated Web site through direct conversations with the organization’s leaders, group collaboration, and review of the site’s CSS-based layout.
- Curt Olson is currently pursuing a BA degree in Technical Communication at Metropolitan State University. He is a former technical instructor with more than 25 years of design and delivery experience in electronics and computer technology, and has enjoyed rewarding careers in military, vocational, and industry training. He contributed to content editing and revision.