thedoor

Inspiration

We were inspired by the link trees on twitter which people used in order to spread information about petitions, organizations to donate to as well as resources to learn from, during the recent Black Lives Matter movement. We felt as though the link trees were not the most accessible or easy to use and you could often get lost using them. There were also so many it was hard to keep track of what you have seen and what you haven't.

What it does

thedoor is a website that allows you to learn more about some of the most important issues that our society is facing and then take action with the new knowledge that you have acquired! Initially, you are given topics to choose from and then you have the option of current issues relating to that topic. Once you decide on an issue you can choose to learn more about it or do more ! If you choose to learn more about it you are given a short summary of the issue as well as further resources to learn even more. If you choose to do more you are given the opportunity to:

1. E-mal a local government representative
2. Find local grassroots organizations
3. Find events happening near them regarding the issue
4. Connect with others interested in the same issue at hand

How we built it

We used HTML and CSS in order to build it from scratch for all of our first websites !

Challenges we ran into

This project was challenging in that it made us work as a team to figure out the best layout and organization for the website. We had several ideas for things we wanted to include and we had to choose the most efficient and optimized way to design our website.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

As a team, we are very proud of ourselves with the outcome of the project. None of us have had any prior CSS and HTML experience, and we have produced a clean and easy to use website.

What we've learned

We’ve learnt a lot about coding using html and css and how to make a functioning website that is intuitive to use.

What's next for thedoor

• Issue of the week; one from each category
• Account registration; making it available for people to add new information
• Issue of the week; one from each category
• Account registration; making it available for people to add new information.
• For e-mails, we want people to be able to link their e-mail. On the back-end side, we are looking to use natural language processing to create templates.
• For near you, we want to be able to add a map function so that people will be to find events near them. [There will hopefully be a feature which will allow people to add the events]
• Hopefully, a connect page will act as a forum where people will be able to input their ideas. -We will need moderators who also moderate inputs (whether this is event inputs, inputs of issue ideas) and moderators for the forum. A database would need to be out in use also to keep all the data.

Our next steps are definitely to develop further web pages!

Built With

• css
• html