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to design Web sites Free Web pages designed by e-business students will be provided to Fort Worth area non-profit organizations as a part of the final project for the students’ last e-business class. Some of the organizations to benefit include: Habitat for Humanity, the Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez Foundation, the Fort Worth Public Library Foundation and Young Life. The first class of 70 e-business students at the M.J. Neeley School of Business are building the Web pages as part of their e-business consultancy class. Matt White, a junior e-business and finance major, said the consultancy class is the final requirement for the e-business degree. “It’s supposed to be a culmination of all our previous classes and our internships,” White said. “They wanted to do a project that would sum up everything.” Meenu Singh, a faculty advisor for the project, said he felt the students are prepared to take on such a demanding project. “The students participating in this project are experienced designers,” Singh said. “Many have already had Web design internships at corporations like Radio Shack, Bell Helicopter, Textron and TXU.” White said much of the Web page design would depend on what the client requested, but fancy graphics weren’t the only thing the students would be doing. “There might be things like building a database or building an interface so they can record customers,” White said. “We have to meet with the customers 10 times. You build the site based on their needs.” Singh said between 50 and 60 charities had contacted him, and there were two different types of projects that students might have to complete depending on the project they pick. “I’m amazed at the many non-profit organizations that have been calling me saying they don’t have a Web site at all and desperately need one,” Singh said. “Other non-profits say they have a Web site but it needed redesigning because it was only a few pages slapped together by employees with minimal experiences.” All of the projects this semester will be for non-profit organizations in the Fort Worth area because the department didn’t want to take on the responsibility of charging companies for their services, Singh said. “Since this is the first time we’re doing it, we thought we’d test the waters in the non-profit first to see how it goes,” Singh said. “If we start taking money, it’s a huge responsibility.” White said he liked the fact that Singh had chosen to do Web pages for non-profit groups as opposed to regular businesses. “It gives back to the whole community,” White said. “When it’s all said and done, people are really going to realize that we’ve helped these groups in the long term. This will be a good experience for both the students and faculty.” Singh said the Web pages would be operating by summer, and next spring’s consultancy class would expand to include non-profit organizations from the Dallas area and regular businesses. Sam
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