Yay, the site's finally up! I freakin' love it, it came together quite awesomely, if I may say!
However, I do have my qualms with it. For one thing, the designer really should have considered using something other than Flash for the entire site ... I have a top of the line Sony Vaio CS with three gigabytes of RAM and the latest Intel processor, and it's still running insanely slowly. Flash should have been used for the home page only, not the entirety of the site! x_x; Imagine how the site would run on a mobile device, if at all ...? Eeep ...
Also, the site returns 22 markup errors using the W3C's markup validation service, ((The W3C is a group of organisations from around the world that actually created the World Wide Web as we know it today, with a man named Time Berners-Lee leading the pack,)) Which is not a good thing at all. This means that the site won't display in all browsers and all computers. Heck, it might not even show up at all for some people! And this is not a good thing ...
Plus, while all the information the site holds is sweet as Hell, the way it's displayed is less than satisfactory ... The text is so blurry and hard to read against all the busy backgrounds, and some of the pictures are slightly stretched horizontally or vertically, most notably the site's title across the top of every page. x_x;
I feel bad saying this, but damn, I expected something perfect, or near perfect, for the price you paid, Dawn. I could've created something along those lines for free for this project if I had've known you were planning to launch a site awhile back ...
The web designer should fix all of these issues, and for free --- You should demand this, Dawn, you paid enough for the damn thing!
Edit: Just found out that your webdesigner, Renee N Chamberlain, ((User rchamberlain417 on Wix.Com,)) used Wix.Com's Flash generator to create the entire site ... This is shocking to me, as I assumed Renee would be creating the whole thing from scratch!
I found this out by clicking on the 'Donate' link under the description of the site on the Home page, and then clicking on the 'Return to donations coordinator.' link on the bottom of that page. As you can see, it forwards you to an error page hosted on Wix.Com, which, of course, means the entire site is hosted on Wix.Com. A quick viewing of Wix.Com and the services they provide only solidifies this fact.
However, if you really want to continue use Wix.Com's services, you needn't rely on Renee to do so --- Check out this page, click on Wix Premium Plans, and you'll see what I mean! You should be paying no more than $16.17 a month for your site. That's under $200 a year, and anyone could do it --- It's a Flash generator, so no techinical knowledge is required!
You were swindled, Dawn, you were swindled very badly, and this angers me. I despise rip off artists.