Camara is our favourite charity – we love what they do with computers… Camara reuses Irish PCs destined for landfill and recycling, installs educational software and distributes them to learning places in countries throughout Africa. You can read about their wonderful work on their brand spanking, new, gorgeous website.

The new camara.ie website - click to launch website

We choose to use WordPress for the website as most of the staff and volunteers were familiar with the application – and despite the size (60+ pages and literally 100′s of blog entries) WordPress handles itself very well and allows for inevitable expansion as Camara grows online and offline.

Cookie Web were so delighted to design the new website and worked closely with the Camara team to create a site architecture that would cater to a diverse range of visitors to the website. The design needed to be funky enough to appeal to a predominantly youthful, volunteering audience but also have a commercial aspect to appeal to the corporate visitors as well. We wanted the design to be modern and hip but longevity was a key element so the resulting design looks contemporary but not faddish and should stand the test time with out looking dated by the middle of 2010.

We’ll leave the final word with Eoghan Crosby, Camara’s Technical Directory:

“I would like to thank Cookieweb for our new website. We love the fresh look and the fact that it is expandable as our requirements grow. We are able to easily update our content as and when we like and to keep potential volunteers and customers readily informed about our services and events. Cookie Web’s personable and professional service meant that the process was swift, innovative and delivered at a very reasonable cost.”

Camara’s Charity Cup

Camara Charity Cup

Another great idea from the dynamic team at Camara. The Camara Charity Cup pitches Irish companies against each other in a Fantasy Football style GAA Championship competition. Companies select teams at the start of season and win points for each games win. The companies also take part in weekly quizzes and point prediction which also allow companies to accrue points. The competition winners and runner ups are in line for some fantastic prizes. Check out the website and get in touch with Camara if you’d like your company to get involved.

Matt’s Endless Bender

Global Bender

Matt has had another brainwave and come up with Global Bender; a brilliant way to mark the halfway point of his 12 month round the world Odyssey of back to back yoga challenges (that is Bikram yoga everyday for a whole year). For the month of June he is calling on all Bikram Yoga Studios and yogis to take part in a worldwide 30 day Yoga Challenge. And believe me, to endure 30 days of Bikram yoga (let alone 365 days) is quite a feat. To get involved please check out the Global Bender page on Matt’s Website and be sure to check out Matt’s blog while your there.

Cookie Web designed the Global Bender logo and this groovy poster that participating studios can print out and display. As the Matt’s website was created in WordPress we were able to add new page, including a registration form, quickly and easily.