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/
