For a class project, I worked together with a group of students to help rebuild and redesign an organization’s website. The nonprofit HR Symposium came to San Jose State’s business department and asked if  any classes were interested in helping develop their current domain into something more modern while adding more functionality. While other groups had to work on their own in-class project, my group was lucky enough to be able to work with HR Symposium, a real committee looking to work with us. How exciting!

We scheduled a meeting so both groups can meet each other and go over the deliverables needed to update their current website. It really did need a facelift…the navigation was just a couple hyperlinked words on the top, each page seemed inconsistent to the other, and just one photo on the entire site. The sum of our job? “Make it pretty!”

We later talked with our class group to learn what roles we wanted to work on, I chose to be the project manager to keep in contact with the committee and work with my team. I don’t think my group members realized how much extra work I had to do besides contributing to the website project. I was constantly keeping track of what was worked on and how long it took, all while making sure we stuck to our deadlines.

In the end I’m really glad I stepped up to be in that role. Somehow it seemed even more rewarding to be able to look back at the paperwork to see that even the smallest detail done was able to help make a better product in the end. This project has been one the best experience I’ve had during my student education. Working with others and putting our minds together to build something we were all proud of!

Please take a visit to the finished website that we built from this project: HRSymposium.org