Greetings:
This is not much of a diary, rather this is an attempt by me to gather information.
I am a lawyer working on a capital case in Virginia. We have exhausted all of our appeals, and our client is facing an execution date of Feb. 19. As part of the clemency process, I would like to create a Blog or similar website. On the Blog I would post various aspects of our plea for clemency, and would ask folks to sign a petition in favor of clemency. I would need some capacity on whatever host service we use, to collect electronic "signatures" and some basic biographical information to validate the signatures.
The blog would not be an open blog for comments, so the signature process will need to be higher tech than just posting a thread and waiting for comments on it. The final product has to be something that is suitable for delivery to Gov. Kaine.
My questions:
- Has anyone here created something similar -- perhaps to collect signatures for some other purpose? What would you recommend I use?
- Other than posting on Kos and reading a few Blogs, I have zero experience with creating a website. Where would you suggest I go for help? What service should I use?
- Any other technical advice is greatly appreciated.
If you have experience with clemency petitions and want to contact me, I would also greatly appreciate your advice.
Thanks for your help folks!