The Gal To Gal Foundation has a new web site and online campaign for the Gal To Gal Virtual Walk 2007. It aims to improve the lives of women diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer and is expected to raise $1m. The site is due to be featured on the Martha Stewart Show on Monday, October 1st to a national audience in the United States.
The site it uses SWX RPC, with a SWX PHP back-end.
Jon MacDonald has a case study of the Gal To Gal Virtual Walk project, wherein he explains that the entire site was built in one-and-a-half weeks:
SWX is used extensively throughout the site to communicate with the back-end and database. This enabled the rapid development timeline, and made the process of storing and passing data through PHP seamless. I haven't seen any other true sites built with SWX, but rather small mash-ups and widgets, so I believe this is a first for the SWX project.
Read more about GalToGalWalk.org in my blog post and on Jon's case study.
Looks like it was taken down: “This post has been removed at request of the client until further notice.”
hopefully they’ll let him put it back up after the event.
Whoopsie…posted without thinking: that’s the BLOG POST/case study on the johnnymac site that was taken down; NOT the main GalToGalWalk.org site.
That will teach me to post before I’m properly caffeinated.
Hi Cynic,
Yep, let’s hope they do that. I haven’t spoken to Jon about it but I’m sure it’s temporary, until the site launches today.
Heya Cynic and Aral -
Yes, it is temporary. The post will go back up in its entirety on the first of November once the drive has ended. I’m still at a loss as to why the client didn’t want me posting about the project, especially positive comments, but I’d rather play nice then cause an issue. I believe it had to do with the fact that when you Google’d the project, my blog posting came up before their site in the search results. Obviously that isn’t the ideal situation.
Aral - I’ll be sure to let you know next month as soon as it is back up. If not, feel free to give me a nudge while I’m at Flash on the Beach and I’ll repost it then. I will also have a second project launching in a few weeks that uses SWX just as extensively, and will be blogging about that as well.