Jeff Bridgforth :: Webcraftsman

The vision of Student2Student was to see stu­dents involved in Cam­pus Cru­sade for Christ trust God with the priv­i­lege of lead­ing at least one other stu­dent to Christ.

Com­mu­ni­ca­tion was vital to the suc­cess of this project. Each week, stu­dents would receive an email updat­ing them on the over­all progress of the Student2Student ini­tia­tive. They would also receive encour­age­ment, ideas, and resources to help them in their prayer and witness.

The Student2Student Web site would also fuel stu­dents’ par­tic­i­pa­tion. The site includes resources, video and audio train­ing. A pop­u­lar fea­ture of the site allowed stu­dents to share sto­ries of their Student2Student experience.

The orig­i­nal Student2Student site was done in Flash. Then it was redone in HTML using tables. I under­took this redesign to make improve­ments to the site archi­tec­ture, add new resources and update the look and feel of the site. I also wanted to com­ply with Web stan­dards using XHTML and CSS.

Another enhance­ment to the site was a “Tough Ques­tions” blog, which I set up using Word­Press. This also became a pop­u­lar fea­ture as many stu­dents com­mented on the posts.

The Student2Student ini­tia­tive ended in May of 2006.

My role

• Redesign of site in HTML and CSS
• Infor­ma­tion architecture
• Gath­er­ing content
• worked with back end programmer

Key Ben­e­fits

• Fit more with the look of print assets
• Added inter­ac­tiv­ity with addi­tion of Word­Press blog and comments

Tech­nol­ogy

• Word­Press blog
• Audio pod­cast