The Lowdown

The Lowdown

The Lowdown is a New Zealand website developed by the New Zealand Ministry of Health's National Depression Initiative (NDI). The website launched on December 3rd 2007.

Mission

The Lowdown aims to help young New Zealanders understand and recover from depression [cite web | year = | url =http://www.cymrc.health.govt.nz/moh.nsf/indexcm/cymrc-home | title ="CYMRC home"| format = | work = | publisher =Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee | accessdate =2008-01-04] . It does this through online support services and testimonials from New Zealand celebrities [cite web | year = | url =http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10480611 | title ="Depression site for teens launched"| format = | work = | publisher =NZHerald.co.nz | accessdate =2008-01-04] .

Features

Navigators

The user can choose from one of four celebrity navigators who tell users how to use the website. There is also a "go alone" option.

Information and Help

The website has depression-related fact sheets and contact lists, as well as online self-tests.

Stories

The Lowdown has video of New Zealand celebrities and musicians talking about how they or someone they know made it through depression. Users can also add their own stories by submitting video or text.

Chat

Users can chat together in a style similar to a bulletin board.

Multimedia

Users can listen to streaming songs from contributing musicians.

Interface

The website uses flash built on ActionScript 3. It uses the Sandy 3D engine [cite web | year = | url =http://dev.webbymx.net/2007/12/20/the-lowdown-website-sandy-3-and-lowra/ | title ="The Lowdown website - Sandy 3 and lowRa"| format = | work = | publisher =dev.webbymx.net | accessdate =2008-01-04] .

List of celebrities contributing to The Lowdown

Musicians

References

External links

* [http://www.thelowdown.co.nz The Lowdown Website]


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