SlickFish Studios launches Sam Allen Photography site

July 2007 - SlickFish Studios launched the website for Sam Allen Photography, featuring fine dog portraits.



Yellahoose assisted by working with Sam and Gordon Holman of Slickfish to build tools enabling Sam to set schedules for customers to make rservations online, including making deposits (processing payments using Authorize.net as a gateway) for reservations.

Additionally, Yellahoose developed a solution integrating reservations on the website with Sam's calendar program, iCal, on her Mac desktop.

Links:

Sam Allen Photography
http://www.samallenphotography.com

SlickFish Studios
http://www.slickfishstudios.com

Authorize.net, PHP, MySQL and iCal
http://www.authorize.net
http://www.php.net
http://www.mysql.com
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ical/

Freshwater Biodiversity portal added to KnowledgeBase

September 2010 - KnowledgeBase, the online resource for documents and data for the Gulf of Maine watershed, added a significant new portal feature related to freshwater biodiversity in September. Yellahoose developed the site's collections pages with Peter Vaux, at the University of Maine, and a new dynamic species mapper was added to the web site.



Mapping development was done using Google Maps API version 3.0. Yellahoose used the MySQL RDBMS and PHP and Python programming. KnowledgeBase and features used by it and its linked sites are hosted on CentOS and Debian, two versions of Linux.



Web hosting for the KB site is by Packawhallop.

Links:

KnowledgeBase
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/

Scorebuilders launches new web and ecommerce site

September 2010 - Scorebuilders, the Scarborough-based provider of physical therapy training and license examination preparation tools and software, launched its new web and ecommerce site in September. LuDesign Studios and SlickFish Studios did the great graphic design work. And Yellahoose was brought in to rearchitect data management, programming and end-user experience for Scorebuilders' online ordering.



Work included programming in PHP and ASP, working with and integrating orders and users for online courses in Microsoft SQL Server, web server (IIS) and Windows Server administration - not to mention needs assessment and planning development of and getting Scorebuilders' feedback on the online purchase experience.



Thanks Gordon and Lucian!

Links:

Scorebuilders
http://www.scorebuilders.com

Goodwill Industries of Northern New England - AmeriCorps site moves and is updated

August 2010 - Goodwill Industries of Northern New England's AmeriCorps web site was updated in August, and the web, database and file server was moved to a new host. Yellahoose worked with the hosting provider's data center to make the transitions, and Yellahoose implemented new work flow and graphic design changes to the GINNE AmeriCorps site with AmerCorps Program Director, Joely Ross' input and assistance.



More changes are scheduled for September.

Thanks Joely, Steve and Paul!

Links:

Goodwill Industries of Northern New England
http://www.goodwillnne.org/

GINNE AmerCorps site
http://americorps.goodwillnne.org/

Michele Tremblay for New Hampshire State Senate!

July 2010 - Michele Tremblay is running for state senate in New Hampshire's District 7. Yellahoose helped out by quickly building a site for her fledgling campaign, including value-added features like a donation and online payment feature and a newsletter sign-up function.



www.TremblayforSenate.com is hosted by Packawhallop, a web products and hosting hosting business co-owned by Yellahoose's owner, James Cradock.

Links:

Tremblay for Senate
http://www.tremblayforsenate.com

Paddock & Company relaunch and upgrade Sacred Bear Ecommerce site

July 2010 - Paddock & Company relaunched Sacred Bear's online store, which showcases Navajo and Zuni jewelry. Yellahoose managed the migration of data from osCommerce to BigCommerce and worked with Merchant Corner, BigCommerce specialists, to facilitate the upgrade.

Thanks to Larry, Glenn and Eamon!

Links:

Sacred Bear
http://www.sacredbear.com

Paddock & Company
http://www.paddock.net

Merchant Corner
http://www.merchantcorner.com/

BigCommerce
http://www.bigcommerce.com/

BAD Studio launches Illuminations Contact e-commerce site

June 2010 - Illuminations Contract, of Atlanta, Georgia and Birmingham, Alabama, re-launched its web site and launched its wholly new e-commerce solution, designed and project managed by BADSTUDIO of Atlanta with assistance from Yellahoose of Portland, Maine.



Yellahoose took the great graphic design concepts produced by BADSTUDIO and implemented them in Pinnacle Cart, a hosted PHP shopping cart and online store solutions. As part of these major web site updates Illuminations' own public web site was moved to Pinnacle's data center too, ensuring 24/7/365 web site availability.



Illuminations' e-commerce site features a full catalog, B2B solutions, details, invoicing, online payment processing through Authorize.net, and drop ship functionality.



Thanks to Lyn and everyone at Illuminations!

Links:

Illuminations Contract
http://www.illumco.com/

BADSTUDIO
http://www.badstudio.com/

Pinnacle Cart
http://www.pinnaclecart.com/

State of the Environment Report is published

June 2010 - Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment launched their State of the Environment Report this month. Yellahoose provided web design, support and IT management services.



The report represents a cumulative effort by Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) Canada, New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (DES), Environmental Protections Agency (EPA) and Gulf of Maine Councilors from different agencies and stakeholder organizations in the U.S. and Canada. The site is built to evolve over the coming years, with new papers and reports added as they become available.



Thanks to everyone involved with this project, up to this launch and beyond, including Jay, Jazmine, Peter, Theresa and Lorraine!

Links:

Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment and
State of the Environment Report
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/state-of-the-gulf/

Maine Coastal Program launches online version of Maine Coastline newsletter

May 2010 - The Maine Coastal Program launched the new edition of its Maine Coastline newsletter. This edition marks the first step in a phased approach to move the Coastal Program's newsletter to the web. This edition's theme is on the significant aesthetic qualities of the Maine coast.



Plans are being made to evaluate and implement other web features in upcoming editions and updates, including social media and outreach tools, like Twitter, Facebook, places for user input and photo galleries... and more. Stay tuned!



Content for this new online edition of Maine Coastline was developed by Nancy Griffin at Word Association. Graphic design was provided by Gordon Holman of Slickfish Studios. Theresa Torrent-Ellis, Kathleen Leyden and others at Maine State Planning office provided great feedback on the new edition. (Thanks!) All other technical assistance, planning and work was done by James Cradock of Yellahoose.

Links:

Maine Coastline & Maine Coastal Program
http://www.maine.gov/spo/coastal/
http://www.maine.gov/spo/coastal/coastline/

Creative Portland Corp launches LiveWorkPortland built by LEDA, LuDesign, Slickfish Studios and Yellahoose

May 2010 - Creative Portland Corporation launched LiveWorkPortland, a web resource showcasing Portland, Maine's vibrant creative professional community.



LiveWorkPortland presents Portland residents and those thinking about relocating to the area a picture of the city, and of the region, as a great place to live and work and do business. The site showcases great creative professionals calling Portland "home", with biographical sketches and multimedia slideshows. It hilights the city's culture, economy and other amenities adding to Portland's quality of life.



The web site was designed and built and content was developed by a team of professionals from the area: LEDA, LuDesign, Slickfish Studios, Wing and Ko. and Yellahoose. Yellahoose's role:

• We configured the web, database and email servers, helped move DNS and update zone records, set up back up routines, and basically set up the site shell.
• We installed and configured WordPress, the software Creative Portland identified as its preferred CMS.
• Design requirements were tricky! No canned template would do, so we built one specifically for the site.
• As content developers and web designers, Wing and Ko. and Slickfish Studios, built out the design and content, we supported them by debugging issues, resolving (or helping to resolve) them, and we provided a second set of eyes as things went online.
• Meanwhile, we integrated the site with Constant Contact, using their developer API, and we search engine optimized and set up analytics tools (Google Analytics and AWstats) for the site.
• We launched LiveWorkPortland.org from its staging location to its "live" site, moved the launched version to source control (we use Subversion), and prepared for the future by creating a project management site (in Trac) for the team.

LiveWorkPortland is hosted by Packawhallop.

Check out LiveWorkPortland.org!

Links:

LiveWork Portland
http://www.liveworkportland.org/

Create Portland Corporation
http://www.portlandmaine.gov/creativeportlandcorp.htm

LEDA
http://www.ledadesign.com/

LuDesign
http://www.ludesignstudios.com/

Slickfish Studios
http://www.slickfishstudios.com/

Wing and Ko.
http://www.wingandko.com/

Packawhallop
http://www. packawhallop.com/

UMRLAC water quality monitoring program site gets Yellahoose-powered update

April 2010 - The website for the Upper Merrimack River Local Advisory Committee's river water quality monitoring site got some modest but value-added and really neat updates this month, thanks to program and sampling managers and Yellahoose.



First step was databasing existing monitoring location and E. coli sampling data. Yellahoose built a simple relational database in MySQL on the UMRLAC server and populated it with data provided by UMMP Sampling Supervisor Steve Landry.



Building an entirely new user interface was out-of-scope and budget for this round of revisions, but updating the existing UI to make use of the database, and to add great new features, like enhanced mapping and interactive charting using Google APIs, was an easy set of tasks for Yellahoose.



Finally, Yellahoose developed more user-friendly tools to the UI using Dojo -- and, last but not least, reCAPTCHA was added to newsletter and listserv sign-up forms.

Links:

Upper Merrimack River Local Advisory Committee UMMP sites and FaceBook page
http://www.merrimackriver.org/
http://www.merrimackriver.org/programs/ummp.php
http://www.facebook.com/UpperMerrimackRiver

Google visualization tools
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/
http://code.google.com/apis/charttools/

The Dojo toolkit
http://www.dojotoolkit.org/

KnowledgeBase gets face lift

March 2010 - KnowledgeBase, an online repository of bibliographic records and data related to the environment in Maine and northern New England, got a face lift this month.

Yellahoose planned and managed the graphic design redo. Project partner Gordon Holman of SlickFish Studios produced the new art work. After review by Dr. Peter Vaux and team at the Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research, and some minor tweaks, Yellahoose implemented the new skin on the existing website.



The new graphic design is meant to be flexible -- more easily accommodating new data portals, themes features being working on now for implementation later this year. (Stay tuned for these!)

We like the look of the new site a lot!

Links:

KnowledgeBase
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/

Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research
http://www.umaine.edu/waterresearch/

SlickFish Studios
http://www.slickfishstudios.com/

Yellahoose chosen to build data visualization tools for Upper Merrimack River Local Advisory Committee

March 2010 - The Upper Merrimack River Local Advisory Committee (UMRLAC) has chosen Yellahoose to build database management, web mapping and data visualization tools for its volunteer river monitoring program.

Since 1995 UMRLAC's Upper Merrimack Monitoring Program (UMMP) has monitored bacteria (E.coli), insects and other indicators in eleven sampling sites throughout the Merrimack River watershed, including on the Pemigewasset, Winnipesaukee, Contoocook and Merrimack Rivers, to gauge and track long-term trends in water quality in the watershed. Volunteers collecting site data are trained by NH Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) and Merrimack River Watershed Council (MWRC).

These new data, mapping and visualization tools will be launched on the www.MerrimackRiver.org in spring 2010.

Links:

Upper Merrimack River Local Advisory Committee
http://www.merrimackriver.org/

NH Department of Environmental Services
http://des.nh.gov/

Yellahoose helps Crossroads, Gulf of Maine Council (ESIP, Times, Restoration), PDT Architects, Shannondell, HolzCreative and Cradock Woodworking

February 2010 - February was a busy one for Yellahoose and its current and new customers!

Crossroads for Women began billing from its new clinical tracking software, implemented in 2009, with Yellahoose's help customizing claims and tweaking claim data for the Agency's specific needs. Remote computer management solutions were also rolled-out in the Agency's Kennebunk, Windham, Portland (Back Cove and Old Port) locations.

The Gulf of Maine Times published monthly updates to the online newspaper. These include news about Nova Scotia's recently published state of the coast report as well as a study on climate change and its measured affect on Casco Bay.

Ecosystem Indicator Partnership published its March/April 2010 journal.

Gulf of Maine Council's Habitat restoration program (in partnership with NOAA and Maine State Planning Office) made significant updates to and launched its online grant application tool on March 1.

PDT Architects, the Portland, Maine-based community-focused architecture and design firm, relocated its web presence to Yellahoose partner Packawhallop's servers... with Yellahoose help managing the technical aspects of the uneventful relocation.

Yellahoose helped Atlanta, Georgia-based King & Moore and HolzCreative move, make necessary programming and database updates and relaunch the Shannondell at Valley Forge website.

And Boston, Massachusetts-based Kevin Cradock Woodworking moved its website, including database and CMS systems, with Yellahoose's expert analysis and assistance.

Links:

Crossroads for Women
http://www.crossroadsforwomen.org

Gulf of Maine Times
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/gomt/

ESIP (Ecosystem Indicator Partnership)
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/esip/

Gulf of Maine Council's Habitat Restoration Subcommittee
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/habitat-restoration/

National Marine Fisheries Service's Community-based Restoration Program
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/restoration/projects_programs/crp/

PDT Architects
http://www.pdtarch.com/

Shannondell at Valley Forge
http://www.shannondell.com

HolzCreative
http://www.holzcreative.com/cory/

Kevin Cradock Woodworking
http://www.cradockwoodworking.com

Northeast Aquatic Nuisance Species Panel launches Yellahoose-built online guide

February 2010 - The Northeast Aquatic Nuisance Species (NEANS) Panel has launched its online invasive species guide. Built by Yellahoose, NEANS' guide allows website users to search for species, view imagery and effects, and create online and PDF-based guides to download or share online with others.



The NEANS Panel is a U.S./Canadian focuses issues and research on freshwater and marine resources in member jurisdictions, including: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hamnpshire, Vermont, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick Quebec. Panel members represent state, provincial, and federal governments, academia, commercial and recreational fishing interests, recreational boaters, commercial shipping, power and water utilities, environmental organizations, aquaculture, nursery and aquarium trades; tribal concerns; lake associations, and the bait industry.



The guide, built by Yellahoose with project partners Waterview Consulting and Slickfish Studios, features search, content management, on-the-fly PDF creation, and a number of innovative features. Twenty priority species were initially defined for launch of the product, with additional species and more information for species in the system to be added by the NEANS Panel's members on an on-going basis.

Links:

Northeast Aquatic Nuisance Species Panel (NEANS)
http://www.northeastans.org/
http://www.northeastans.org/online-guide

Waterview Consulting
http://www.waterviewconsulting.com/

Slickfish Studios
http://www.slickfishstudios.com/

Upper Merrimack River Local Advisory Committee updates data and leverages social media

January 2010 - The Upper Merrimack River Local Advisory Committee, or UMRLAC (um-ra-lack), updated its web site with new E.coli monitoring data, committee meeting notes and annual reports, and great new outreach features using social media tools Facebook, Twitter and Identi.ca.



Links:

Upper Merrimack River Local Advisory Committee
http://www.merrimackriver.org/

UMRLAC's Facebook page (important Bug Nights news here)
http://www.facebook.com/UpperMerrimackRiver

Tomaydo Tomahhdo launches with Yellahoose-developed contact form

January 2010 - Ohio-based upscale restaurant Tomaydo Tomahhdo launched their great web site, built by Sharon Pieniak of Bluecat Media, featuring a simple, easy-to-use contact form built in rapid fashion by Yellahoose.



Visit and dine at Tomaydo Tomahhdo at one of its three bistro locations in Shaker Heights, Lakewood and Cleveland, Ohio!

Links:

Tomaydo Tomahhdo
http://www.tomaydo.com/

Bluecat Media
http://www.bluecatmedia.com/

Yellahoose develops online print order form for Portland Photo Works

January 2010 - Elliott Teel of Portland Photo Works came to Jim Cradock of Yellahoose to inquire about adding an easy-to-use print order form and photo upload tool for the the Portland Photo Works' web site. Portland Photo Works has a high quality Epson 7900 Ultrachrome HDR printer, and Elliott wanted to receive orders (currently they're delivered on physical media) via the web site.



After defining the specifications and reviewing the capabilities of the Portland Photo Works web server, Yellahoose built the print order tool using HTML, JavaScript, PHP and Flash. Photographers can upload 180 ppi or better RAW, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PSD and PDF files to the site using any contemporary, Flash- and JavaScript-enabled web browser.

Note: Portland Photo Works is located on the second floor of the The Congress Building (also known as the State Theater Building). Visit Portland Photo Works, and Yellahoose, and look at great photography, on First Friday Art Walk! The next Art Walk is Feb. 5th.

Links:

Portland Photo Works
http://www.portlandphotoworks.com/