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The Laura Crane Trust – Online Store

Jonathan — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:57:02 +0000

The Laura Crane Trust has a number of merchandise items that they sell at events to help raise money, as well as certain appeals and events throughout the year. Like the Christmas card appeal, selling Christmas cards to raise funds and in October time, selling tickets to their annual ball.

By having an online store, this means that these items can be sold 24/7, therefore increasing their sales. This really helped when the charity produced a calendar with The Huddersfield Giants rugby team, selling most of their stock as pre-orders online.

The Laura Crane Trust

Jonathan — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:45:10 +0000

I got involved with The Laura Crane Trust after I gave them some free consultancy on one of their projects to create a virtual world for teenage cancer patients. From there I took over the development and design of their new web site, taking over from the current design agency that they were using.

After the completion of ‘stage 1’ of The Laura Crane Trusts new website, which I did volunteer for the charity, a proposal was put forward to the charities trustees to hire me over a 6 week period to help get the charity up to date with ‘all things web’. Being a charity, with limited funds and during a recession, they went ahead and hired me for the 6 week placement. During that placement I did a number of things, including:

Getting the charity on Twitter and getting most of the office staff to post daily on Twitter.
Creating a YouTube Channel to showcase some of their videos online – one receiving nearly 600 views in less than 36 hours.
Adding a RSS news feed to their website – providing visitors with up to date news.
Generating over £4,000 in one week with promotion from MissionFish and Ebay.
Boosting website visitors by 300%.
As well as many other things.

After 6 weeks of intensive work with The Laura Crane Trust another proposal was put forward to the charities trustees, asking for further funds to employee me on a regular basis, a few hours a week, for a long period. This was instantly agreed.

Txt-and-Click Explained

Jonathan — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:00:43 +0000

Here is a video of the Txt-and-Click prototype, showing the interaction between the video game and the gamers mobile phone, this can also be found on Txt-and-Clicks YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/user/txtandclick

Film evidence

Jonathan — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:02:09 +0000

One of todays tasks is to film my prototype working. This is then only to be used in the presentation if for some reason the prototype doesn’t work. If I get time, I will also upload it to the Txt-and-Click YouTube channel and add to this blog.

Animation Done!

Jonathan — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:52:05 +0000

Just rendered out my animation explaining the Txt-and-Click concept after competing animation last night. This has also now been uploaded to YouTube on a channel that has been set up for Txt-and-Click. The channel can be found at; www.youtube.com/user/txtandclick

YouTube page

Jonathan — Mon, 18 May 2009 09:55:50 +0000

Here is a screen shot of the YouTube page for Txt-and-Click, which can be found at; http://www.youtube.com/user/txtandclick

2nd Design Board

Jonathan — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:49:31 +0000

The 2nd design board is now completed, here it is:

1st Design Board

Jonathan — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:06:57 +0000

Here is the first design board for mt Txt-and-Click project:

Logo Experiments

Jonathan — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:31:41 +0000

Here are some of my experiments for a logo for my Txt-and-Click studio project:

Broken Sword: Shadow of The Templars Directors Cut Trailer

Jonathan — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:00:52 +0000