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For A Change Goes Live
08 March 2007


Well, we've finally done it. In the early hours of this morning (or yesterday afternoon GMT) the new FAC website went live.

As Erik Parsons reminds us, the creative process goes something like this - getting the first 80% done takes 20% of the time, and getting the final 20% takes 80% of the time.

I am more of a 'big picture' person than a details-oriented one, so I much prefer the first bit. But I have to admit, I'm glad we did spend time making a lot of seemingly minor changes. A website is a funny beast - much more restrictive than a print magazine in some ways (flexibility of layout and fonts, for example) and much less restrictive in other ways (no limit to the number of pages.) At one level the rather rigid format seems simple. But I have begun to appreciate how much thought goes into a well-designed interface which enables the reader to easily find what they are looking for.

Well, we've made a start. Because we know there is lots of room for improvement (hopefully in response to things our readers tell us) we've decided to designate this a BETA website.

Many thanks to our excellent team of programmers, designers writers, and other helpers - particularly people whose work is more behind the scenes: Eve Wojciechowska in Toronto, Edward Peters in Oxford, Barbara Down in Newcastle UK, and Vitalie Cracan, John Freebury and Erik Parsons in Chisinau, Moldova. What a truly international team we are!




COMMENTS

Well, I don't know how I found you but I think we move in parallel thoughts and ideas. 121contact.typepad.com/ is a blog of students/teachers in Iraq/USA (and now some in Jordan). After my nephew Mitch Wallace was killed on 9/11 in NYC I chose this as a way to turn grief and anger into actions for peace.

email flowing through the killing zone has provided both sides with a chance to get to know the people of each land, as differentiated from the governments of each.

It is often difficult to answer each other's hard questions, but we try, and we build friendships that hopefully will cut through the lack of information we have about each other.

And the chance to tell stories has its own healing effect.
Keep up the good work,
Bruce
Bruce Wallace
September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
www.peacefultomorrows.org
www.121Contact.typepad.com <-- have you been to the blog lately?
Bruce Wallace, 08 March 2007


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