Helping Others

Posted by Mark Esler on October 05 2008 at 14:28

This post is a shameless tooting of our own horn, but we've been saving up some karma so here it is.

Alt Repair is helping out a Minneapolis non-profit called "Paperbag Princess".  They take gently used prom dresses and then giving it back to people who otherwise might not affor them.  We feel very fortunate to work with them since its mind boggling how much one dress can cost.  Two to three hundred bucks for some fabrick!?

They have lost access to their site and needed it mirrored and put on a new domain.  We could have taken the easy route and just mirrored the site for em.. but we decided to redo the design and give it all the bells and whistles of a CMS. 

We even suckered in an awesome mn web design company to give them free hosting!  (much appreciated Himmelberger Design)

You can see their current site at http://www.paperbagprincess.org/

You can see how construction is going at their new site at http://www.rerunprincess.com.php5-3.websitetestlink.com/ don't forget your hard hat.

Click here to donate a prom dress.  Anyone who does gets fifty bucks knocked off their Alt Repair bill.