Website Design for Animal Rescue Nonprofit

We seek a web designer to create structure and design options for our nonprofit website. Right now we use SquareSpace but we are open to learning more about other platforms that might be better aligned with our scope and goals.

The volunteer should assess and incorporate our goals and needs and consider our key audiences. The designer should also assess our technical capabilities. The project's deliverable is a draft of architecture and design concepts that we can easily share with a web developer volunteer or a member of our team who will use the guide to create our new site.

Our work will take place over multiple meetings in six to nine weeks. In our first meeting, the volunteer should interview us about our desired features, our web capabilities, and our technical expertise. Then, they'll synthesize the information into a requirements briefing. We'll engage in various check-ins, where a member or members of our team will provide feedback. The volunteer will audit our current site to create a draft of site architecture and design options including wireframes, site structure, and other visual elements.

We launched this version of our website more than five years ago, and feel that as our organization has grown, our website has not kept up. We pride ourselves on the use of technology to save lives, and value the power of public presence and first impressions. By updating our website to be current, effective in bringing in new visitors and converting them to take action, and being seen as a rescue at the forefront of the industry, we can save the lives of even more dogs waiting in shelters!

We have already thought about and are prepared to brief you about our current website platform, budget restrictions for the build, our branding collaterals and norms, and information about our stakeholder groups and target audiences. We've also compiled some photos and have some language developed that we will share with you and samples of sites we like.