Website Design - Joomla

We seek a web designer to redesign and upgrade our site, http://gunpolicy.org, which houses the largest free database of global gun laws, which is heavily used by researchers around the world (over a million unique views last year). (Hosted on GoDaddy, I believe.) The volunteer should assess and incorporate our goals and needs and consider our key audiences. The designer should also assess our technical capabilities. The project's deliverable is a draft of architecture and design concepts that we can easily share with a web developer volunteer or a member of our team who will use the guide to upgrade the site.

Our work will take place over multiple meetings. In our first meeting, the volunteer should interview us about our desired features, our web capabilities, and our technical expertise. Then, they'll synthesize the information into a requirement briefing and timeline. We'll engage in various check-ins, where a member or members of our team will provide feedback. The volunteer will audit our current site to create a draft of site architecture and design options including wireframes, site structure, and other visual elements.

Do you want to help save the world from gun violence? Then welcome to Global Action on Gun Violence! Our organizing principle is simple but bold: The world can save the U.S. from gun violence, and together we can save the world. Several years ago, our founder, Jon Lowy, began working with the government of Mexico to stop the flood of guns that pour across the U.S. border and arm the cartels, work that led to the first lawsuit filed by a country against the gun industry. Soon Jon joined a class action lawsuit in Canada brought by victims of a mass shooting in Toronto with a U.S. made gun. The two experiences highlighted three facts that led to the creation of GAGV:

1. The reckless, profit-driven practices of the U.S. gun industry, enabled by weak U.S. laws, are causing havoc in countries beyond U.S. borders – in Mexico, Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America and beyond.

2. While the U.S.’s failure to protect its own residents from gun violence is indefensible, causing deaths and injuries to one’s neighbors is another order of wrong. Just as one cannot dump toxins in a neighbor’s yard, international law and comity do not allow causing extraterritorial harm.

3. Bold action by other countries is warranted and needed to stop U.S. guns from harming their nations and people, and may also be the most effective solution to the U.S.’s gun violence epidemic. Lawsuits brought for harm suffered abroad are not constrained by the special gun industry protections found in the U.S.; international and human rights laws protect the right to live far more than current U.S. law; and other countries act with a boldness and clarity to protect the right to live rarely seen domestically. And if foreign actors are successful in stopping dangerous practices that arm criminals abroad, those same reforms will make the United States far more safe. Hence: the world can save the U.S., and together we can save the world.

A comprehensive global approach to gun violence that includes impact litigation, policy advocacy, and messaging hasn’t really been tried. We believe it’s the answer.

Our volunteers help power GAGV. Can you help save the world from gun violence??

We have already thought about and are prepared to brief you about our current website platform, budget restrictions for the build, our branding collaterals and norms, and information about our stakeholder groups and target audiences. We've also compiled some photos and have some language developed that we will share with you and samples of sites we like.