The latest web site project is completed, and has been active for a couple of weeks. The project was another rewrite for the Friends and Families of Suicide Internet support group, as I lucked into getting their sites moved to a new web host, and rebuilt their sites because the old host wouldn’t give access to content or data.

This new site is called “Faces of Suicide”, and is a visual memorial wall of family and friends that have taken thier lives. It has quite a visual imact, I think. It shows a random selection of 100 faces from all those submitted, and when you click on a face, you are taken to a memorial page. All of the faces are submitted by friends and family members.

As you regular two readers of this place know, our son Jason took his life several years ago after a long struggle with bipolar disorder. So we (especially Pam) have been involved with the Friends and Families of Suicide Internet support group, which maintain several web sites of memorials. They also have an active discussion and support group. Each of the web sites has a ‘Outreach’ page of resources available to those affected by suicide.

So, the new Faces of Suicide (www.facesofsuicide.com ) web site is done. And it has gotten quite a few visitors. The site gets about 1200-1500 ‘page views’ every day, with almost 50,000 page views since the site was made public just about two weeks ago. Even if you haven’t been affected by this issue, I think that you might find the sites interesting. And perhaps you know someone that has been affected — there are some excellent resources and support links on that site.

Now that that site is done, it’s on to some other projects. A rewrite of a couple of existing sites of mine. Plus the continuing support of the FoodieFeeds (www.foodiefeeds.com ) and BBQ Grail (www.thebbqgrail.com ) sites.