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By Jeff Trexler on September 24, 2007 11:03 PM | | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBacks (0)

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Students reading this site no doubt have already noticed that it includes posts from both my classes. This is not an accident. A social entrepreneur wrestling with issues in nonprofit law does not do so in a vacuum. As we shall see, law intersects with all aspects of organizational life, including web design--rest assured that if you don't see the connection, the IRS and your donors will.

The same goes for someone doing web design for any type of corporate enterprise. Your job is not just to throw any old words and pictures on a screen. You are creating a group identity, which if done well will accurately reflect--or at least not contradict--the rules that shape its organizational life.

In fact, the connection between legal and web design go even deeper. In last Wednesday's nonprofit law class I likened articles of incorporation and bylaws to DNA. I could have expressed the same point by likening them to the code that gives life to this very site. Organizational documents, like a computer program, contain a series of coded instructions. Get the code wrong one way and the object in question won't exist--just like when something I botched Saturday night wiped out this entire site! Similarly, it's possible to completely change the appearance of the resulting form with relatively minor changes in the underlying the code, from the color of a link or the position of the page title to legal status as a for-profit or nonprofit organization.

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