Defaid.com
Yn Gymraeg
The name of the new website for young people on Anglesey has been announced officially at Anglesey’s Children and Young People’s Festival last week.
The name of the website currently being developed with CLIC will be defaid.com (which translated means sheep [plural]).
A few weeks ago Anglesey’s Children and Young People’s Partnership (CYPP) held a competition to name the website with a swanky video camera as a prize for the winner along with £100 for their club or school.
After all the entries were in a voting box went around every secondary school on Anglesey and Coleg Menai, asking you the young people to vote for the name you liked best.
Paul Magee, who was on the last CLIC residential, was victorious and the prize was presented to him on the stage at the Festival. The name was inspired from a T-shirt making project Paul had taken part in at Ysgol Bodedern.
“There are these T-shirts with different slogans and images on them,” he said.
“Things like Dafad Hasselhoff and Dafad Iwan. That’s where the idea came from.”
(Dafad is Welsh for a single sheep)
The Festival was a great chance to consult with young people on the logo which will be used on the website. A number of logos were designed by the design company Burning Red and the young people at the festival were given a chance to choose which logo they liked best, through placing a sticker on it.
There is a photo of the most popular logo in amongst the pictures with this article. The colours yellow and green were chosen as the favourite colour for the writing ‘defaid’.
The next step is to decide on the look of the website itself. There are two designs, which have been made by Burning Red that are now in the hands of the CYPP who will hold a consultation on them soon. The two designs of this website have come from another consultation which was done at the Llais Ni residential a few months back.
Maybe it sounds that there is a lot of consultation going on but Anglesey and CLIC want to make sure that this is a website for young people by young people, so you need to choose what you want from your website, including the important things such as name and how it looks.
Anglesey are in the middle of establishing a young persons Editorial Group which will be key to how the website is run. If you have any interest in being on this group then contact Tania@cliconline.org.uk and we will make sure that your details are passed on.
If you are not from Anglesey and are interested in finding out more about the National Editorial Group or other local Editorial Groups who are part of the CLIC network then contact ryan@cliconline.co.uk
