A Site for a Good Cause in Record Time

On May 12^th (roughly a month from now) peo­ple all over Van­cou­ver won’t be dress­ing for ‘Casual Fri­day’. (In a town that some­times appears to me to be per­pet­u­ally in sports­wear mode, going any less for­mal on Fri­day is some­thing I’m not sure I want to con­tem­plate any­way). As part of a fund-raiser for Ovar­ian Can­cer Canada, a small (and grow­ing) sup­port group and edu­ca­tional non-profit, women and men will dress up that day, wear­ing “the dia­met­ric oppo­site of wear­ing jeans to work”. Glam Day, as the lit­er­a­ture puts it, will let us all “Fight ovar­ian can­cer and be fabulous!”.

What I have to do with this orga­ni­za­tion and event is that two cowork­ers and I worked on the web site for glamday.ca. Ovar­ian Can­cer of Canada is a pro-bono client of the com­pany we work for. We’re all pretty proud of a site that I think looks good and works well. What’s more, it was con­ceived, built, and launched all within less than a week. Here’s to web devel­oper Matt Ben­ning and graphic designer Edmund Arceo for a ‘fab­u­lous’ job. This is Glam Day’s first year. I bet that next year it will be really big. Think plat­form heels and dia­mond tiara big.