Care energy website

2. What is your Purpose for the site?

Primary purpose of the site is a resource to describe the company and our mission for potential investors, grant programs, the press, etc. I am trying to launch the energy tuber as a biofuel crop to replace corn in the "sunbelt" states. Funding and industry and academic partners are needed to do this. I am also interested in international projects, since sweetpotato is the 7th biggest world crop.

I also expect the site to be accessed by environmental activists, government officials and other policy makers.

3. Please find 4 webs sites (URLS) that you like.
Describe why you like them-
Ex: Color Palette
Placement of items on the page
Purpose of the site

http://www.greenfuelonline.com/ Like use of color imaes to summarize important points

http://www.amyris.com/ Like the purpose of the site, and it is Informative, clear, concise description of what they do without being to detailed or technical - of course this is a much bgiger company than mine.

http://www.ecogybiofuels.com/general.php?id=1 Anther South Carolina green energy company. Intersting, but not very exciting.

http://www.growpennycress.com/ Another biofuel feedstock (type of plant). Doesn't say much, needs work.

Htt;://www.unitedwayli.org

United Way of Long Island. Love the brightness of the home page. I like the top half of the page, but don’t particularly like the information provided on the bottom half.

http://liveunited.org/

Like the color pallet, like the use of logos, like the “slide show” of photographs, like the links, like the ease of the navigation buttons. Way more information than we would ever use, but we do link to this site from our own.

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4. Describe the layout of your site.Think about what is the most important? What is the optimum order of your links?

Home Page

About Us/Contact Us

Agency Partners

Corporate Partnership Programs (?)

Events (could have Women’s Way and Art & Leisure Auction and A Capella Concert on same page)

In the News or Links and Resources

(what we don’t currently have on the site but could perhaps add is a Blog. I write a blog that I post to Facebook, but it may be nice to have one right on our site. We are also currently heavy on text and not really utilizing photographs as much as we could. I’d like to explore what our options might be in that area.)

5. Where is the data for these pages? Do you want to update it ? Or should we start with what is currently on the pages?
Most of the data is already on the pages, other material can be sent via email in PDF form if you’d like.

6. Who is going to input missing data? Are they willing to be the liaison to Springfield? Will they pick up and respond to e-mail daily?

I will be the liaison to Springfield College. In addition to my email address I will provide you with my cell phone. I do not have access to my work email from home, but I’m in the office every day, Monday – Friday.

7. What kind of pictures are you interested in using? Do you have photographs? We can scan.
Have the models signed off?

8. Can we have access to high res- versions of the United Way logos?
I have a CD of stock photos from United Way of America which I will share with you. They are acceptable and approved for use in advertisements and promotional materials. I also have high resolution copies of Logos and also have a Brandmark Usage directory which you could access for information.