I worked on this website when I was in the Biomedical Informatics MeTRC Core at Meharry Medical College. I was the primary designer and one of my colleagues did the programming and CMS management.

This site was created in response to Hurricane Katrina’s devastating touch-down in New Orleans, and its goal was to better inform people how to be prepared for natural disasters. In addition to information about different types of natural disasters, it would keep up-to-date with weather news for local areas, and display maps with marked establishments, and would show evacuation routes and destroyed buildings.

Unfortunately, the grant for the project was canceled before the site was completed, but there was a lot done design-wise that I worked very hard on.

This was one of the first sites I worked on using the CMS Plone, and I was able to sharpen my CSS, Photoshop and Illustrator skills as well.

I wanted something simple for the header that reminded people of the site’s purpose without being frightening, and with the logo design I wanted the weather radar look that is so reminiscent when it comes to big storms. The green added more color to the rest of the site (echoed in the globe logo) and gray highlighted the storm clouds.