Tim Samoff // Weblog (old)

December 07, 2005

Amahoro...

Amahoro means peace. It is a word of Bantu origin used widely across Africa. It has special meaning in places like Rwanda, Burundi, and Congo, where violence and genocide have inflicted such pain and suffering. When people from various tribes embrace, shake hands or kiss, and say “amahoro,” they are expressing a deep hope for a better future.

Yesterday, I “finished” a new website for Amahoro, the international counterpart to Emergent (“finished” is in quotes, because it’s not really finished: there are still many features to add, as well as a ton of translations). The site is simple and straight-forward. I went for more of a no-frills approach, with an eye for beauty and grace rather than something that was more interactive and cluttered, so I hope that comes across. Likewaise, I had to design something that would be easily viewable by people here in the U.S. as well as Central Africa.

There are still a few bugs in Windows Internet Explorer (when aren’t there?), but I’m working on them (one of them has to do with the right-hand sidebar appearing under the main content and not on the right side of the page). I’m still cleaning up some of the code so that it all validates, etc.

Upcoming features include: user database and community, multimedia resources like audio and video, etc. I don’t know when I’ll be able to get to all of this stuff (I designed the site on a voluntary basis), but they will come at some point.

Posted at 09:09 am

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Emergent International Site
The international web site for Emergent, ‘Amahoro’, is up and running.
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