Website Development Internship
Preferred learners
- Canada
- Academic experience
Categories
Skills
Project scope
- What is the main goal for this project?
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About us: Canadian Herstory is a multi-faceted empowerment platform that focuses on sharing the stories of women in Canadian history to spread awareness of gender inequality and inspire future generations. We received not-for-profit status in May 2021 and originally began by creating short educational videos about women in Canadian history as a method to inspire a younger age during a time of heightened social media use and reduced classroom time. Today, we are creating an online Canadian women's encyclopedia to offer a place for cohesive further education. While we continue to make short videos, we feel they limit our ability to educate and would prefer to keep them going as a tool to create interest in Canadian women's history while offering a starting place for further research. While Canadian encyclopedias exist, we feel many lack gender and racial inclusivity. Canadian Herstory is building a website with an online encyclopedia to fill that gap and offer further information easily understood by a younger generation.
Your Role: As we are creating the online encyclopedia, we seek a website developer to join our team of volunteers. Your primary role will be designing and building the Squarespace website. This role includes but is not limited to: a home page, an about us page, a recommendation submissions page, a guest lecture offer page, a power of gender-equal education page, and most importantly, the encyclopedia page that will have numerous sub-pages, each featuring a different woman in Canadian history. As we aim for a young prime audience for this website, we hope it would have a relatively in trend style that would fit well with the illustrations of Canadian women we already have for the encyclopedia entries.
Expectations: We are looking for someone familiar with Squarespace who can work alongside our director in creating the website to feature an online encyclopedia. This internship will be completely remote and requires biweekly scheduled zoom meetings with our director.
Tools Required: As this is an online position, you must have your own computer and sufficient internet access. If you do not have adobe creative cloud and would require it for creating graphic designs for the website, we can provide it for you.
Skills: Intermediate web development knowledge, intermediate graphic design skills and the ability to learn Squarespace if you are unfamiliar.
- What is the main goal for this project?
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About us: Canadian Herstory is a multi-faceted empowerment platform that focuses on sharing the stories of women in Canadian history to spread awareness of gender inequality and inspire future generations. We received not-for-profit status in May 2021 and originally began by creating short educational videos about women in Canadian history as a method to inspire a younger age during a time of heightened social media use and reduced classroom time. Today, we are creating an online Canadian women's encyclopedia to offer a place for cohesive further education. While we continue to make short videos, we feel they limit our ability to educate and would prefer to keep them going as a tool to create interest in Canadian women's history while offering a starting place for further research. While Canadian encyclopedias exist, we feel many lack gender and racial inclusivity. Canadian Herstory is building a website with an online encyclopedia to fill that gap and offer further information easily understood by a younger generation.
Your Role: As we are creating the online encyclopedia, we seek a website developer to join our team of volunteers. Your primary role will be designing and building the Squarespace website. This role includes but is not limited to: a home page, an about us page, a recommendation submissions page, a guest lecture offer page, a power of gender-equal education page, and most importantly, the encyclopedia page that will have numerous sub-pages, each featuring a different woman in Canadian history. As we aim for a young prime audience for this website, we hope it would have a relatively in trend style that would fit well with the illustrations of Canadian women we already have for the encyclopedia entries.
Expectations: We are looking for someone familiar with Squarespace who can work alongside our director in creating the website to feature an online encyclopedia. This internship will be completely remote and requires biweekly scheduled zoom meetings with our director.
Tools Required: As this is an online position, you must have your own computer and sufficient internet access. If you do not have adobe creative cloud and would require it for creating graphic designs for the website, we can provide it for you.
Skills: Intermediate web development knowledge, intermediate graphic design skills and the ability to learn Squarespace if you are unfamiliar.
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
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No deliverables exist for this project.
- How will you support learners in completing the project?
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The organization's director will supervise this project. While most of the work will be on your own, there will be biweekly scheduled meetings. We value your education and expertise in this field and hold limited technical web-building knowledge. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the creative process by discussing design and stylistic choices with the director in the weekly meetings that will ultimately shape the entire website's appearance.
About the company
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- Education, Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society
Canadian Herstory is a not-for-profit organization focused on sharing the stories of women who have shaped our country to inspire the next generation to follow their dreams. We believe that gender-equal education can lead to a safe and supportive community of motivated people willing to break down social barriers to achieve their goals.