Every Friday I write down what LFW actually did that week. Week one, week two, week three, week four.
This is week five.
LFW.com in Italian
LFW.com now reads in Italian, alongside English, Spanish and French. Every public page the Spanish and French versions cover has an Italian version, and so do 19 blog posts.
Italiano is in the language menu at the top of every page.
Two WordCamps are coming up in countries where Italian is spoken: WordCamp Pisa on November 13 and 14, and WordCamp Switzerland in Murten on March 5 and 6, 2027.
LFW is considering sponsoring them, so we wanted the site ready for a new audience in its own language.
LFW's Office of the Chief Financial Officer is reviewing the expense, both the sponsorship and travel for LFW staff to the WordCamps, before we can commit to sponsoring.
One forms guide, with forms that work
The eight-part series on web forms is now one guide: On web forms.
We merged it to make it easier to digest and more hands-on: shorter paragraphs, more lists, and an example to try in every section. We're auditing the rest of our articles to make them more engaging and interactive the same way.
It has live examples you can fill in. One page holds forms that fail on purpose, so you can hear and see what a screen reader user runs into when a label or an error message is missing.
A radio station on Try LFW
Try LFW has a seventh site you can edit in your browser: Wrenfield Community Radio, a fictional station's website built for the volunteers who run it.
We built it after an RFP from a community radio station looking for a new website. We'd like to support more community radio stations as part of our work with nonprofits.
Four proposals out, two of them abroad
Four proposals went out this week:
- A park district
- A regional planning commission
- A college in Wales
- A public institution in Norway
A fifth, to a community radio station, goes out later today, after this post is published. It will be in next week's list.
A chamber of commerce we bid on in September wrote to every bidder this week. It received 65 proposals by its deadline, against 5 for the RFP it put out in 2025.
That much competition for one website changes the math. We'll keep bidding, but we also need to become the firm our audiences think of first, before an RFP is ever written. More on that in a later recap.
Registered in Australia, Norway and the UK
Bidding abroad starts with paperwork.
Australia's federal tenders require a statement of tax record from the Australian Taxation Office, even from a company with no Australian tax history. LFW applied on October 6 and received a satisfactory statement on October 13.
In Norway, public buyers run their tenders through Mercell. LFW registered there this week.
In the UK, LFW registered last Friday on the government's Central Digital Platform and received a Public Procurement Organisation Number (PPON), the identifier UK public buyers use for suppliers.
What changed on LFW.com
230 commits this week. Besides the Italian site and the forms guide:
- A page for each kind of organization. The associations page used to cover chambers of commerce, nonprofits, advocacy groups and policy institutes too. Each now has its own page: associations, chambers of commerce, nonprofits, advocacy and policy institutes.
- Eight practice cards on the homepage, four by two.
- The higher education page now says private colleges answer to Section 504 too when they take federal funding, such as student aid.
- Older blog posts moved to numbered pages at lfw.com/blog/page/2/ and on, the way WordPress numbers them. The old addresses redirect.
Gourd'n Party at WeWork Rosslyn
On Thursday afternoon, WeWork Rosslyn held a Gourd'n Party, a hands-on workshop where members planted autumn succulent arrangements to take home.
Today, October 16, is Elizabeth's last day at WeWork. LFW's executive team wishes her the best of luck in her future endeavors.
Art in Transit at the Lebanese Ambassador's Residence
On Thursday evening, I attended the opening of Art in Transit at the Lebanese Ambassador's residence in Washington, DC. The exhibition features paintings and sculptures brought from Beirut, representing the work of thirteen Lebanese artists.
Ambassador Hamadeh gave the welcome remarks.
The exhibition was presented by Galerie Cheriff Tabet, a Beirut-based gallery, in collaboration with the Cedar Alliance, artist Ghassan Ouais and the René Moawad Foundation. It is open by appointment through January.
Next week
More proposals go out: four are due between Monday and Wednesday.
If you know someone who runs the website for a Virginia county or town with fewer than 50,000 residents, I would be grateful for an introduction.
Their accessibility deadline under the Title II rule is April 26, 2028, and I'd like to help them get there early.
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