The Salt Institute moves and relaunches its web site

September 2008 - The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies relaunced its web site. The site, designed, architected and built by SlickFish Studios and Yellahoose, uses a sophisticated template system allowing for easy update of Salt's substantial radio, writing and photography content.



Salt's new site makes use of XHTML and CSS, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and Flash to make for a rich and easy to use web experience. It provides a great platform for Salt's content.

This major update is the first in a series of phased updates to Salt's online presence. Future updates will outreach tools for Salt students, alums and supporters, as well as secure login and content management for the online gallery and student and faculty work spaces using software built by Packawhallop.

...and Salt's moved! The school's new address is in the heart of Portland's vibrant Arts District:

561 Congress Street
Portland, Maine 04101

Links:

Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
http://www.salt.edu

SlickFish Studios
http://www.slickfishstudios.com

Hurricane Kyle data tracked by GoMOOS

September 2008 - Northern New England and the Canadian Maritimes don't often get to experience the weather associated with a tropical storm or hurricane, but on September 28 Hurrican Kyle made its way through the Gulf of Maine and headed towards the Bay of Fundy. The Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System (GoMOOS) has buoys in the Gulf of Maine, and it publishes real-time conditions from its buoys and from complimentary NOAA buoys on its web site.

GoMOOS' buoy N, south of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, is here:
http://www.gomoos.org/data/12hr_history.html?platform=N01

NOAA's buoy on Georges Bank, even farther south of GoMOOS buoy N, is here:
http://www.gomoos.org/data/12hr_history.html?platform=44011

Yellahoose principal Jim Cradock, while co-owner of me3 Technology Consultants, worked for a number of years on GoMOOS products, including the real-time buoy conditions, wave forecasts, web services and graphing software.

Links:

Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System (GoMOOS)
http://www.gomoos.org

Article at The New York Times trying to explain all of this:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Tropical-Weather.html?hp

Eclipse Media Group relaunches web site

September 2008 - Eclipse Media Group relaunched their online presence with a dynamic, database-driven web site designed and architected by SlickFish Studios and Yellahoose.



The Group's new site sports a content management system (CMS), Flash presentations and document upload tool, a relational database management system (RDBMS) storing all client content, and Google Analytics tracking how the site's being used. Using the site and the software implemented, Chelsie Woods, Andrea Gural, Regina Celeste and Joanne Friederick are able to easily add and update press releases, client results and client speaker availability in real-time... while looking at the public pages – and without needing to visit a separate "admin" site.

Additionally the site is hosted by Packawhallop LLC, a joint business venture of Gordon Holman of SlickFish and Jim Cradock of Yellahoose.

Links:

Eclipse Media Group
http://www.eclipsemediagroup.net

SlickFish Studios
http://www.slickfishstudios.com

Packawhallop
http://www.packawhallop.com